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Want to make up to $200,000 per year?

Lots of New Zealanders are crossing the ditch to work in the mines. Mind you, the average job pays a lot less than $200k. But I've known of quite a few people with no skills who walk into $70,000 - $80,000 jobs, and graduate engineers and the like can easily make well over $100k.

The work is generally back-breaking, with long hours and few days off. Plus you have to live in little shitty mining towns, and suffer the hot Western Aussie weather for months at a time. A lot of people do it for a year or two and bring a bundle of money home. A lot also get involved in drugs or waste their money on cars and TV's.
 
Mike Gayner said:
Lots of New Zealanders are crossing the ditch to work in the mines. Mind you, the average job pays a lot less than $200k. But I've known of quite a few people with no skills who walk into $70,000 - $80,000 jobs, and graduate engineers and the like can easily make well over $100k.

The work is generally back-breaking, with long hours and few days off. Plus you have to live in little shitty mining towns, and suffer the hot Western Aussie weather for months at a time. A lot of people do it for a year or two and bring a bundle of money home. A lot also get involved in drugs or waste their money on cars and TV's.
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Even worse, there aren't any sheep there.
 
Having an education and a minimal intelligence is useful to make money but especially to keep it.This guy has neither.
 
Mike Gayner said:
The work is generally back-breaking, with long hours and few days off. Plus you have to live in little shitty mining towns, and suffer the hot Western Aussie weather for months at a time. A lot of people do it for a year or two and bring a bundle of money home. A lot also get involved in drugs or waste their money on cars and TV's.
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Sounds like Fort McMurray, Canada. It's an oil town where people make $120,000 to drive a big truck around the tar sands.
-man to woman ratio is like 934234543
-very widespread drug use
-housing is not available, so you end up paying $2,000 per month to share an apartment with 4 other guys.
-theft is a major problem because there's a quad or motorcycle to be stolen from every house on the block

You can make a lot of money if you have a strong back and can work. I'm an engineer and I don't make anywhere near what my manual labour friends make. Then again I get to sit inside and drink coffee while they are outside in -20 weather, so it balances out 🙂
 
Fuck that shit.

I'm jealous of the money but it's not worth it. You're stuck working in a mine doing brutal, backbreaking work for long shifts. When you get off work you go to your shitty hovel in your shitty mining town where there's nothing to do but watch tv or get fucked up on drugs. Half of your co-workers are tweakers and the other half are degenerates. Everything around you is expensive and the women in that kind of environment are only after your money. Pass with a capital P.
 
sonambulo said:
Fuck that shit.

I'm jealous of the money but it's not worth it. You're stuck working in a mine doing brutal, backbreaking work for long shifts.
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Have you ever done a hard days work in your life?

Honestly, when was the last time you worked a 12 hour shift, went home, took a shower and went straight to bed? I used to do that for 4 - 6 weeks at a time, get a day off, repeat.

I got more satisfaction working in a welding shop, then I do working on computers. At the end of the day your muscles are sore, your tired, but you get used to it. Your body builds strength and endurance, so you can work 12 hour shifts and not be "that" tired.

The human body is designed to work hard, it is not designed to sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day.
 
Texashiker said:
Have you ever done a hard days work in your life?

Honestly, when was the last time you worked a 12 hour shift, went home, took a shower and went straight to bed? I used to do that for 4 - 6 weeks at a time, get a day off, repeat.

I got more satisfaction working in a welding shop, then I do working on computers. At the end of the day your muscles are sore, your tired, but you get used to it. Your body builds strength and endurance, so you can work 12 hour shifts and not be "that" tired.

The human body is designed to work hard, it is not designed to sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day.
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is that how you value a mans worth?

screw you pal. i hate manual labor, i hate being physically sore and physically exhausted. its hard on your body all you have to do is look at the 50 year old construction workers limping around. I wouldn't trade my corporate sys admin job to dig ditches or weld in a hot smelly shop for anything. if you miss it so damn bad go back and fire up the torch.
 
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Man, will have my MIS degree next month and I won't be making anywhere near that much anytime...and most likely never. Awesome.
 
OutHouse said:
is that how you value a mans worth?

screw you pal. i hate manual labor, i hate being physically sore and physically exhausted. its hard on your body
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Your body adapts and becomes stronger.


OutHouse said:
all you have to do is look at the 50 year old construction workers limping around.
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I used to work with people in their 50, 60s and 70s that had more strength and endurance then high school kids.

If lift with your back instead of your legs, yea, your going to be limping around.

Physical labor is what built our roads, our bridges, our rail roads and helped make the US a world power. Without people breaking a sweat, you would not even have a car to put gas in, much less oil and gas.

physical labor > sitting at a desk
 
Texashiker said:
Your body adapts and becomes stronger.




I used to work with people in their 50, 60s and 70s that had more strength and endurance then high school kids.

If lift with your back instead of your legs, yea, your going to be limping around.

Physical labor is what built our roads, our bridges, our rail roads and helped make the US a world power. Without people breaking a sweat, you would not even have a car to put gas in, much less oil and gas.

physical labor > sitting at a desk
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My body adapted by blowing my back out, and the shooting pains emanating from my knees are a pleasant reminder of the quality physical labor I did.
 
Texashiker said:
Your body adapts and becomes stronger.




I used to work with people in their 50, 60s and 70s that had more strength and endurance then high school kids.

If lift with your back instead of your legs, yea, your going to be limping around.

Physical labor is what built our roads, our bridges, our rail roads and helped make the US a world power. Without people breaking a sweat, you would not even have a car to put gas in, much less oil and gas.

physical labor > sitting at a desk
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To a point, I'll agree with most of this...I'd MUCH rather be working physical labor than sitting at any desk, but unfortunately, 30+ years of abusing my body working heavy construction has taken its toll on me...and I can barely mow my own lawn nowadays...and can't sit for any length of time without a break either.
Poor lifting techniques are only a part of why people have back problems.

If I physically could, I'd still be operating heavy equipment...BUT, it's a nasty combination of sitting for long periods coupled with occasional heavy lifting, climbing on/off the equipment, and a lot of "jolting" to the back. NONE of which can I do anymore.

It's definitely a "young man's game," not for us old farts.
 
I was offered a job, almost exactly the one this guy has, for 80k a year 4 months on 2 months off 4 months on 2 months off. This was like 5 years ago though? Maybe I'll try to hit up some of my old Aus connections and see if they're still looking for peoples.
 
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