$100,000 to dig a ditch with dingos...

[Disco Dan]

Unbelievable! The smegging ozzies are racking it in...

http://jobs.search4.co.nz/job/view/2wmzd4/search/o/trades-services/6/

All that money to dig a farking ditch in the arsehole of the planet that is Australia... the shit stinks but fark does it pay well!!

No wonder everyone is legging it over there....

We better find Helen Clarks strap on pretty darn quick.

[Big Dave]

arsehole of the planet

Excuse me?

[Disco Dan]

Excuse me?

The shit has to come out somewhere?

[mxracer_nz]

dig a ditch? sounds to me like its just washing dishes and doing laundry! damn thats sum good pay wonder what the excavator and dump truck drivers get paid

[Disco Dan]

dig a ditch? sounds to me like its just washing dishes and doing laundry! damn thats sum good pay wonder what the excavator and dump truck drivers get paid

$100,000 for mine work. My mate is moving there and researching jobs...

[Big Dave]

The shit has to come out somewhere?

You're doing a pretty good job.

[Disco Dan]

You're doing a pretty good job.

Awwwww thank you!!! :rockon:

I'd move to Australia too for the money, but i'm not allowed to leave the country for 3 years and I cant stand the accent there...

[slowpoke]

All that money to dig a farking ditch in the arsehole of the planet that is Australia... the shit stinks but fark does it pay well!!



Hmmmm, with comments like that the "arsehole of the planet" could very well be on this side of the Tasman......

The longer I spent in Australia the more aware I was of how different it is to NZ, but it's got a hell of a lot going for it. Having lived and worked for a good few years at remote sites in Queensland and WA I can tell you it's not the frikkin' North Shore.

Of course if you've got the courage you could go over and find out for yourself, and make a few quid while you are at it....or you could just stay here and winge your box off.....

[Disco Dan]

Hmmmm, with comments like that the "arsehole of the planet" could very well be on this side of the Tasman......

The longer I spent in Australia the more aware I was of how different it is to NZ, but it's got a hell of a lot going for it. Having lived and worked for a good few years at remote sites in Queensland and WA I can tell you it's not the frikkin' North Shore.

Of course if you've got the courage you could go over and find out for yourself, and make a few quid while you are at it....or you could just stay here and winge your box off.....

Been there done that and got the t-shirt. Did a working holiday there couple years back. Travelled all the way up the east coast in a shitty old van, with my mate. Did some fruit picking and found a luvley town that sells hash cookies on the street... *heaven* lol

[Mr. Peanut]

If it sounds too good to be true than...

[slowpoke]

Been there done that and got the t-shirt. Did a working holiday there couple years back. Travelled all the way up the east coast in a shitty old van, with my mate. Did some fruit picking and found a luvley town that sells hash cookies on the street... *heaven* lol

So you reckon fruit picking on the verdant fields of the East Coast is the same as working in Cloncurry or Mt Isa or Marble Bar in +50degC, with the heat radiating off the rock surrounding you as you work on some dewatering rig or broken haul-pak in the bottom of an open cut somewhere? Or coming home blackened with lead/zinc concentrate, to your partner crying after being "accosted" again by the stinking drunken aboriginal community roaming the streets. Those are the T-shirts I've got and it certainly wasn't *heaven*. Unfortunately there wasn't the labour shortage there is now so wages weren't even that flash.
Fly in/fly out and 60-70% of the time you are away from friends/family/motorcycling/sports etc, and working Christmas's/birthdays/childbirth, sharing ablutions etc in substandard single person's donga's.
Or live in and pay extortionate rent for a house if you decide to take your family "out bush". Go to Karratha and have the choice of paying $1200/week rent or buying a shitty 3 x 1 brick and tile house for +$700k AUD. Then there's the power bill from running that monster air-con 24/7, and the cost of petrol and groceries at remote towns, not to mention the kids have to go to a private boarding school 'cos the local schools are crap.
Try finding a partner in a town where men outnumber women 3-1, or try starting a relationship when you are away 60-70% of the time and even if you are successful don't expect it to last 'cos the relationship break up rate for the fly in/fly out lifestyle makes for sorry reading.
Oh, there are positives as well, but as the old saying goes, you don't get nothin' for nothin' so don't expect easy money.

[Disco Dan]

So you reckon fruit picking on the verdant fields of the East Coast is the same as working in Cloncurry or Mt Isa or Marble Bar in +50degC, with the heat radiating off the rock surrounding you as you work on some dewatering rig or broken haul-pak in the bottom of an open cut somewhere? Or coming home blackened with lead/zinc concentrate, to your partner crying after being "accosted" again by the stinking drunken aboriginal community roaming the streets. Those are the T-shirts I've got and it certainly wasn't *heaven*. Unfortunately there wasn't the labour shortage there is now so wages weren't even that flash.
Fly in/fly out and 60-70% of the time you are away from friends/family/motorcycling/sports etc, and working Christmas's/birthdays/childbirth, sharing ablutions etc in substandard single person's donga's.
Or live in and pay extortionate rent for a house if you decide to take your family "out bush". Go to Karratha and have the choice of paying $1200/week rent or buying a shitty 3 x 1 brick and tile house for +$700k AUD. Then there's the power bill from running that monster air-con 24/7, and the cost of petrol and groceries at remote towns, not to mention the kids have to go to a private boarding school 'cos the local schools are crap.
Try finding a partner in a town where men outnumber women 3-1, or try starting a relationship when you are away 60-70% of the time and even if you are successful don't expect it to last 'cos the relationship break up rate for the fly in/fly out lifestyle makes for sorry reading.
Oh, there are positives as well, but as the old saying goes, you don't get nothin' for nothin' so don't expect easy money.


Hahahaha!! Really? OMG... he is certainly in for a surprise ! ! ! :cool:

[SPman]

So you reckon .........
Fly in/fly out and 60-70% of the time you are away from friends/family/motorcycling/sports etc, and working Christmas's/birthdays/childbirth, sharing ablutions etc in substandard single person's donga's.
Or live in and pay extortionate rent for a house if you decide to take your family "out bush". Go to Karratha and have the choice of paying $1200/week rent or buying a shitty 3 x 1 brick and tile house for +$700k AUD. Then there's the power bill from running that monster air-con 24/7, and the cost of petrol and groceries at remote towns, not to mention the kids have to go to a private boarding school 'cos the local schools are crap.
Try finding a partner in a town where men outnumber women 3-1, or try starting a relationship when you are away 60-70% of the time and even if you are successful don't expect it to last 'cos the relationship break up rate for the fly in/fly out lifestyle makes for sorry reading.
Oh, there are positives as well, but as the old saying goes, you don't get nothin' for nothin' so don't expect easy money.
Which is why a lot of people (like us), don't do it!
Stuff the money - we want a life!

[jonbuoy]

Not a bad way to get a little money put away, if you could handle the jandle for two years and avoid pissing it all up on your R&R that is. I thought about it but I heard from a few people that the take home pay isn't that great and they didn't come out with anywhere near what they thought they could.

[nodrog]

"12 hour days for 9 days", the hourly rate is nothing fantastic.

[tri boy]

$1600 gross, less tax = approx $1000.
Divided by 90+ hrs, + camp life,+ isolation etc etc etc.
It looks good for the first few months, but quickly becomes a drag.
Rostered shifts (night/day) lack of sleep, boozing work mates making a racket.
If mining isn't in your blood, then it's not a good life style.
Oh, 5 days off. Takes 3 just to catch up on sleep,:zzzz: and get your city life sorted, then your back on a plane.:angry:

[janno]

Yes, on paper it sounds good, but in reality a lot of people go out there with stars in their eyes and simply can't hack the heat, cold (in winter the desert is freezing), living conditions, snakes and flies.

But a lot of kiwis, especially Maori, go over and do extremely well, and just love the lifestyle.

Other half has done minework as a boilermaker, but could make as much metro because he's highly skilled so he's back in Brisbane. But once he's got his welding inspector's ticket he'll be out there again on big bikkies.

It all depends on how much you can tolerate, and how disciplined you are with your money as to whether it's worth a crack or not.

For a young person starting out, or a tradey, it's a great way to get money behind you - if you can hack it.

[jonbuoy]

That kind of work attracts certain characters as well, Metro's need not apply.

[Brett]

If it sounds too good to be true then...

You're probably stuck in NZ!