After a stellar year with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jordan Berry is heading to the NFL play-offs, writes Patrick Lucas.
Until a year ago Jordan Berry was working any job he could. Dawn starts at the Queen Victoria Market; fitting his 195-centimetre frame into a call-centre desk, and even night shifts at McDonald's.
But at lunchtime on Sunday (Australian time) he has just one job, to punt for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL play-offs. 
He may not have had the wide exposure of another Australian in the NFL, Jarryd Hayne, but Berry has quietly made his way through a highly successful first NFL season.
The 24-year-old has played every game for the Steelers this year. He equalled the club record for average length per punt and unleashed the equal-fourth-longest punt of all time at 72.2 metres. Oh, and he'll also be playing in front of a TV audience of more than 30 million.
Not bad for your first year in the richest sports league in the world.
Berry's understated confidence is a key part of what got him into the league, and according to his father Jason, that attribute has been with him for some time. "He's been very calm and collected going all the way back to his time with the Steelers' tryouts. That's one of his strengths, I think. He's very process driven and very calm through the process," Jason Berry said.
Jordan had some success as a junior footballer with the Calder Cannons TAC squad, but it was after he entered a Superkick competition that he felt he could make something of his kicking.
"I knew someone who worked in the States for a while and he was taking kids. He put a flyer in front of me at work about trials which was Nathan Chapman's Prokick Australia. We went to the tryout, got to know Nathan and his program and away he went," Jason said.
The pathway for Berry hasn't been without its bumps.
He finished a stellar career at Eastern Kentucky University in 2013, making the all-conference first team once, and being special teams Player of the Year four years running.
But he wasn't offered any try-outs for the NFL.
"Eastern Kentucky is a pretty small school. I'm the only guy from my college in the NFL ... They [scouts] might see a glimpse of one or two punts and think he's from Eastern Kentucky so I'm not going to bother researching him too much. So I had that to contend with, but I felt that I had the ability to go further."
At this point a lot of NFL dreams end. Unlike basketball or soccer where there are other countries to play in, if you're not in the NFL or maybe the Canadian Football League, you're not getting a pay cheque to punt.
Berry returned to Melbourne with his dream still on his mind.
"I just needed that extra 12 months to get better and stronger and get enough kicks on video and in person so that they are going to be big enough that teams are going to have no other option but to sign me," he said.
Berry's second go in the US yielded better results.
He got to try out with the Steelers and eventually he was signed, taking the spot of fellow Australian Brad Wing (who ended up at the New York Giants).
As for this weekend's game, Berry is keeping it typically low key. "I'll just wake up, have myself some Wheaties, because I can't get hold of Weet-Bix over here in America, get on the bus and warm up," he said.
And his family will be nervously watching as Berry goes about his business in his new job.