First Day Being a Butcher lol

Haha today is my first day working for my auntie in her butcher shop. I was a bit kan jiong since i dunno wat to do yet. First i was thought on how to serve the customers and use the casher machine. Quite a lot of things to remember, like when the person paying by cash i have to make sure i round up or round down the money correctly. then if the person is paying by eftos (nets), i have to make sure i key in the right amount into the machine and make sure it is approved before giving the recipe and packing the meat into the plastic bags.

My auntie's Store "Pork Mart & Poultry"

Next i was told how to use the laminating machine, had to place the plastic properly and make sure its flat on the plastic strip. Then all i need to do is cover it up and press the button for it to start. After that i was told to cut chicken wings, my auntie thought me how to cut by chopping the wing off hard. Later i found an easier way and also maybe my knife was sharper. I was also told to skin the chicken breast meat, it wasn't too hard, did it quite fast.

The shop was very busy at certain timing, is like they all decided to come at 1 time or something. So i had to chop chicken wings and serve customers at the same time. It was lots of work, but quite interesting, i manage to learn a lot of stuffs. but still a long way from becoming a professional butcher lol.

My Butcher Attire =)

1 of the workers there told me to wear boots instead of sneakers so i won't dirty my shoes, when i wore it i felt like Phua Chu Kang (PCK) just that i was wearing white boots (Dun Play Play hor) by 3 or 4pm it was time to clean up the butchery (not the outside selling store) had to use warm soap water to splash on the table and chopping boards then scrub it, was fun, but tiring. Later the guys use the big water hose to spray the entire place to make it cleaner.

After finish washing, the butchers went back after a long day of work. but we at the front store will stay till 6.30pm. By 6pm we would start packing stuffs..... and 6.30pm everything will be done. A guy will come in around maybe 5pm to start cleaning up the back again to make it better. When the shop is fully close, i would go take a bath in the toilet since the house has not much water due to the fact that it hasn't rain for a long time (its on a farm, rain water is more or less the source of water in the house).

I think i reach home around 7.45 to 8pm had dinner with my uncles and cousins, had some chat on mussuels since we were having that for dinner. There was lots of meat, i try to avoid most of them cause some how my diet change and i can't eat a lot of meat at 1 go.... trust me its a lot lol.

Well thats my first day at the butchery, tomorrow i am also working, heard its going to be damn busy. maybe i should sleep earlier tonight.