Talk to me about Australia

[TW]Fox · 2 Apr 2011 at 19:17

Over a grand for a flight to Perth?!

Glaucus · 2 Apr 2011 at 19:23

[TW]Fox;18814458 said:
Over a grand for a flight to Perth?!

Yep, as I said earlier it's just the month I have to go in, the cost is silly but what can you do. could have got it down by another hundred, but was a 35hour flight and would off missed a day and missed meeting up with a mate. What's gulling is it's in their winter.

Raymond Lin · 2 Apr 2011 at 19:28

[TW]Fox;18814458 said:
Over a grand for a flight to Perth?!

It cost £800 to fly to hong kong in April for me. I remember you got that bargain for £400 when you went, I almost bought a ticket because it is so cheap.I doubt you will ever see that deal again, not with the tax went up since.

Glaucus · 2 Apr 2011 at 19:31

Raymond Lin said:
It cost £800 to fly to hong kong in April for me. I remember you got that bargain for £400 when you went, I almost bought a ticket because it is so cheap.I doubt you will ever see that deal again, not with the tax went up since.

Seen quite a few deals around 600-700 but for pretty much every month other than august and july.

craptakular · 2 Apr 2011 at 23:10

Amp34 said:
Who are the disgusting people and what do you do? Engineering or something wasn't it?

panthro said:
Yes. Contractors for various companies just there to work, drink beer and fight. Getting paid unbelievable amounts of money for monkey work just because companies want to keep everything Australian. My only advice would be do not travel further up the west coast than Exmouth/Coral Bay. Any further and you should take a flight to get to Broome. Karijini national park is also a good shout if for some bizarre reason you find yourself up the north west.

I got an Earth Science degree but my 5 years work experience has been in water resources and water treatment processes.

What is this FIFO thing you speak of? Any advice you guys could give to get out to Oz under a work visa?

Sorry for thread highjack

Zip · 2 Apr 2011 at 23:53

90% of australian women wear thongs

mr.bond · 3 Apr 2011 at 00:40

Think os Oz as England in the 70's with beaches.

Amp34 · 3 Apr 2011 at 00:56

Oxy said:
I got an Earth Science degree but my 5 years work experience has been in water resources and water treatment processes.

What is this FIFO thing you speak of? Any advice you guys could give to get out to Oz under a work visa?

Sorry for thread highjack

If you're under 30 (I think it is) you can easily get a working holiday Visa (see the "Travelling" thread for a bit more detail) which lasts a year and allows you to work in any industry for that year and up to 6 months for each company (it can also be extended for another year if you do certain jobs for 3 months, fruit picking and mining are two IIRC).

FIFO is Fly in Fly out, mostly for mining in remote locations, means you work a rotation (say 8 days on, 6 days off, although it varies a lot depending on company). You fly to work at the beginning of your 8 days and work wherever they want you then fly back home for your time off, means you can live in Perth on the days off instead of somewhere remote.

There are certain hydrology jobs that seem to be advertised on seek.com.au so if you do something like that they you may be able to get a job in that, otherwise most geologists go into mining, which is awash with brits on WHVs. Out of the 20 or so people that graduated with me in 2009 I think 5 are in Oz at the moment working in mining, all got jobs within a month of being there AFAIK.

Zip said:
90% of australian women wear thongs

Personally I prefer french knickers (fnar fnar)...

Or trainers...

Vanilla · 3 Apr 2011 at 03:37

Amp34 said:
If you're under 30 (I think it is) you can easily get a working holiday Visa (see the "Travelling" thread for a bit more detail) which lasts a year and allows you to work in any industry for that year and up to 6 months for each company (it can also be extended for another year if you do certain jobs for 3 months, fruit picking and mining are two IIRC).
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Fly in, do the fruit picking first and then you've got two years to play with rather than having the fruit picking in the middle. Much better!

Also, it doesn't have to be back breaking fruit picking, there are lots of eligible fun things to do.

My cousin and his girlfriend are working on a remote farm 8 hours west of Brisbane. She is helping with the family (4 kids) and he is helping around the farm. Lots to do, learning to ride, chilling out and being part of the family. Not backbreaking fruit picking!

craptakular · 3 Apr 2011 at 08:30

yeh been on seek.com.au and some others and found a few to apply to this weekend.

Gonna keep applying for OZ/NZ for a few months until I get to my £10k savings target.

There does seem to be a lot of water/environmental jobs out there for me.

I wonder how success my applications will be so far away and with no visa lined up, I need sponsorship

Raymond Lin · 3 Apr 2011 at 13:31

Mr_T said:
[*]Pinjarra - Pies - the Aussies won't let you forget how good their pies are & how *** British pies are, put them to the test!

Quoting my friend.

Pinjarra Bakery USED to be really nice...

Now its drastically overpriced and the filling are just average and the pastry all soggy, I'd rather go to some no name small bakery...

The guy sold it for like $1million or something and they're sooo busy, I don't understand, their gourmet pies are $6-7 and their standard ones are only slightly better than generic pies now and they still cost $5, I'd rather a $3 pie from a warmer...

Small bakeries make better pies than Pinjarra, across from Pinjarra Bakery is Fuji's Pizza, they do really nice pizza, the bakery sells warm pizza slices from Fuji, single slice is $5-6. And cause its like warmed up pizza its not that great. I can go to DOminoes or even Eagle boys which is just 100m down the road and buy a large pizza for that...

Pinjarra Bakery, crap and a ripoff, I don't understand how it still has a name.
If I wated to eat soggy pies, I'll stick mine in warm water

Amp34 · 3 Apr 2011 at 15:16

Vanilla said:
Fly in, do the fruit picking first and then you've got two years to play with rather than having the fruit picking in the middle. Much better!

Also, it doesn't have to be back breaking fruit picking, there are lots of eligible fun things to do.

My cousin and his girlfriend are working on a remote farm 8 hours west of Brisbane. She is helping with the family (4 kids) and he is helping around the farm. Lots to do, learning to ride, chilling out and being part of the family. Not backbreaking fruit picking!

Personally i'll go straight into mining, but it makes sense for everyone else as it means you get money and don't have to worry about the second year.

Oxy said:
yeh been on seek.com.au and some others and found a few to apply to this weekend.

Gonna keep applying for OZ/NZ for a few months until I get to my £10k savings target.

There does seem to be a lot of water/environmental jobs out there for me.

I wonder how success my applications will be so far away and with no visa lined up, I need sponsorship

I take it you can't get a WHV? I know for people with no experience it's virtually impossible to get a job applying from the UK, orders of magnitude easier when you are in country, but I guess if you need sponsorship then good luck (and you actually have some experience).

panthro · 3 Apr 2011 at 15:30

Oil and gas is where the money is at boys. My data entry clerks get paid ~$100k PA on a 4 on 1 off rotation. Its sickening. Cleaners get paid more than city graduates do.

Amp34 · 3 Apr 2011 at 15:56

It's why I'm doing my masters in it.

Either way mining over there is easier to get into as a graduate and pays the same amount as a graduate job with one of the supermajors over here. Do you know any O&G companies over there hiring graduates in geoscience? If so I'd be interested to know so I can send off a CV.

craptakular · 3 Apr 2011 at 16:46

Amp34 said:
Personally i'll go straight into mining, but it makes sense for everyone else as it means you get money and don't have to worry about the second year.

I take it you can't get a WHV? I know for people with no experience it's virtually impossible to get a job applying from the UK, orders of magnitude easier when you are in country, but I guess if you need sponsorship then good luck (and you actually have some experience).

I can get a Working Holiday Visa, I'm only 27, 28 this month.

I'm trying to save £10,000 before Christmas, I have £3,000 and am going to sell my car in a coupl of months, which should boost it up to £7,000 - £7,500.

I'm just worried that I wont be able to get a proper job with the working holiday visa and will end up with no savings, a shattered dream and return back to my parents spare room broke and dejected lol.

I'm gonna apply to jobs from here until I can save the money to make the decision to go over and find work myself.

I got 5 years experience so maybe I will get lucky, maybe I will have to risk it all on a working holiday visa.

Amp34 · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:23

Well as I already mentioned I have a few friends that went over after graduation and within a month or so of them going over (seperately at different times) they got jobs in mining on WHVs.

EDIT: THere are also 2 people on my course that did this a couple of years ago, both got jobs in the same sort of time period and would recommend anyone interested do just that).

If you do get a proper job the worst thing that will happen is you will have to leave after 1-2 years (if you aren't sponsored by the company you're working for) after making $90,000 a year... I know of a few people who have done just that then came back and put a deposit on a house with the money they made.

TBH I think it's just better to go for it if you have nothing better to do at the moment and no proper ties, worry about the money afterwards. Afterall the WHV costs next to nothing and if you go over there and pick fruit for a month then that will pay for the next month of travelling around. If you still have no proper job by then just come back and take it as a holiday (at worst).

craptakular · 3 Apr 2011 at 17:40

Yeh thats true, I just need the security of a proper job, I'll see how it goes with the job applications here till winter and see how it goes.

panthro · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:39

Amp34 said:
It's why I'm doing my masters in it.

Either way mining over there is easier to get into as a graduate and pays the same amount as a graduate job with one of the supermajors over here. Do you know any O&G companies over there hiring graduates in geoscience? If so I'd be interested to know so I can send off a CV.

I do but they only hire Australian graduates only, which sucks. Ive tried for other people and my HR contacts told me that they only recruit within Australia. With the amount of work coming up they should change this soon because Australia doesnt have enough skilled workers.

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:43

Oxy said:
I can get a Working Holiday Visa, I'm only 27, 28 this month.

I'm trying to save £10,000 before Christmas, I have £3,000 and am going to sell my car in a coupl of months, which should boost it up to £7,000 - £7,500.

I'm just worried that I wont be able to get a proper job with the working holiday visa and will end up with no savings, a shattered dream and return back to my parents spare room broke and dejected lol.

I'm gonna apply to jobs from here until I can save the money to make the decision to go over and find work myself.

I got 5 years experience so maybe I will get lucky, maybe I will have to risk it all on a working holiday visa.

Trust me if you want a job in Australia you will find one easy enough. If you can't then your doing something seriously wrong!

Amp34 · 3 Apr 2011 at 22:49

panthro said:
I do but they only hire Australian graduates only, which sucks. Ive tried for other people and my HR contacts told me that they only recruit within Australia. With the amount of work coming up they should change this soon because Australia doesnt have enough skilled workers.

That's interesting to know. I take it that means they aren't sponsoring anyone for positions then. Could be interesting for the future then if I don't get there at the end of this year.