 Jones had worked as an apprentice auto electrician in Tasmania.Carlton promised him that, upon his arrival in Melbourne, through the intervention of a rabid Carlton fan in the Accounts Section of the Department's Melbourne organisation, they would be able to arrange for him to appointed to a junior administrative position with the Melbourne office of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, where Adrian Gallagher (and his uncle Murray) also worked.Jones had no qualms about moving to Melbourne because his grandmother lived in St Kilda.