Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, he then moved to Melbourne where he lived alone and worked as an insurance salesman, and later as a watch repairman.
17歳の誕生日の直後、彼はそれからメルボルンに移り、そこで彼はひとり暮らしをし、保険外交員として、のちにウォッチ修理職人として、働いた。