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

**Disco Dan** · 28th February 2008, 22:27

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

http://jobs.search4.co.nz/job/view/2...es-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** · 28th February 2008, 22:30

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

arsehole of the planet

Excuse me?

**Disco Dan** · 28th February 2008, 22:31

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Excuse me?

The shit has to come out somewhere?

**mxracer_nz** · 28th February 2008, 22:42

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** · 28th February 2008, 22:43

Originally Posted by 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

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

**Big Dave** · 28th February 2008, 22:45

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

The shit has to come out somewhere?

You're doing a pretty good job.

**Disco Dan** · 28th February 2008, 22:48

Originally Posted by Big Dave

You're doing a pretty good job.

Awwwww thank you!!!

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** · 28th February 2008, 22:50

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

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** · 28th February 2008, 22:53

Originally Posted by slowpoke

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** · 28th February 2008, 22:58

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

**slowpoke** · 28th February 2008, 23:56

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

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** · 29th February 2008, 00:12

Originally Posted by slowpoke

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 ! ! !

**SPman** · 29th February 2008, 00:18

Originally Posted by slowpoke

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** · 29th February 2008, 06:29

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.