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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary, AB. Canada
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Yep, i'm being a greedy little child and looking for a higher paying job.. The way I figure it, i've got this year off to save for travelling/start of a house etc so I want to make the most of it.
Just wanting to know some areas that pay well without much experience in that industry needed.. For example i'm applying for a certain factory/company that is just same old factory work, but it's paying $33 and hour for shifts between 12am-6am. I've also got a mate working for triple A in Bayswater who drives a mini forklift around and gets between $22-40 bucks an hour and takes home around a grand a week. I'm willing to work hard for the money, do night shifts etc as long as the pay is good. I was thinking about going up to a mine or oil rig but with band commitments in melb, i'd rather stay in the area (and make use of probably my last year at home, ie cheap board). I'm currently earning crapola.. Working 6 days a week (thursdays off) from 8am-4.30/5 and usually take home around $400. It's fun working there (with friends) but i'm moving on soon and would like to be getting somewhere close to a grand or more. I'm looking into working with a mates boss (he's on apprenticeship) and that's around $700 a week, 5 days, pulling cables for home/industrial entertainment systems. So i figure there's probably even better oportunities than that out there. So yep, any leads? Not really trying to be greedy, but trying to work smarter and not harder for my year off. PS. It's in eastern/south eastern suburbs of Melbourne (Lilydale) Cheers. |
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Spin 'em Habib !
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Cranbourne Victoria
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your in the same boat as me , I got offered a management job with Harris Scarfe , with a Company Car and an Extra $60 bucks taking home $520 a Week ! ,
But Im Looking at doing a **** Job that pays well to rake in the cash , Labourer , Forklift Driver , Shi7 Shoveller , ANYTHING
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Fiat POWAAH!
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 2,309
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Get into Avon..amazing income opportunities
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,652
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I went to uni for 5 years and I take home a grand a week. I bet I work a lot less hours than the forklift driver, and I get 10 weeks a year paid holidays
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary, AB. Canada
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Victoria
Posts: 1,138
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Go labouring. Any night shift work always pays better but comes at a price. Bood luck
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,053
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Do a quick Bricklaying course and then join a gang on the building sites, wait for the next building boom and watch the money start flowing right in.
Some of those guys have been earning big bucks over the last couple of years I hear, the new Blue Collar Millionaires. |
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Boss power
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Brisbane
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If you change your mind about getting away from home send me a PM as I might be able to set you up something on on a rig, depending on what sort of work you want.
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Smash the Boost
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 2,692
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dunno what everyone elses situation is like but im an adult apprentice electrician and i take home 800 a week. Industries in demand will pay for people. Look at the mines.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: North Coast NSW
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Get into security, fairly good work, decent pay (atleast $20/hr)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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12hr shifts work 12 days in 30 5 weeks leave which when spread over the roster equates to 70 days off $90k |
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Location: TAS
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Mining!
I heard even the truck drivers get paid a fair bit.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Nth Brisbane
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Get into the "Mining" game, mega bucks to be earnt. Or sex workers earn heaps...haha
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Kalgoorlie
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Mining, try www.pybar.com.au they are an underground contracting company who often advertise over here in the west despite most of their contracts being in the east. So far as you band commitments go, you are going away in a year so they are going to have to get used to not having you sooner or later.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Tom Price, WA
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The thing is with the mines though, if you worked the same hours in a city, and worked for 2 weeks straight, you'd have the same kind of money.
I heard drillers/borers are in high demand at the moment, and the pay is good. |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Adelaide SA
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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My eldest is not yet 17 & taking home $800/fortnight ......... Mining seems to be the way to go .......
Ohhh thats a starting wage as a Deisel fitter apprentice, so he will have a trade and a crapload of money before too long ........ |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Sydney, NSW
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popinfresh, nice avatar. Are they all yours?
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Track Red XY
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 656
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unfortunately for you my friend, you cannot simply just walk into a high paying job, buy a house and travel. Nope thats pie in the sky stuff.... As some of the others said, labouring or some kind of shiftwork will get you though. In the meantime, try get some more qualifications under your belt wether it be short courses, crash courses whatever...employers love a thorough resume.
As for chemical industries etc You can't get in there unless someone dies or your a dual tradie etc Although, having said that though if you can get a traineeship through one of these companies and complete it, chances are you will get a job at the end of it and be half way to having a house/holiday and pay for your band's first european tour... |
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FPV GT Owner!!!
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Bellbird Park, West Brisbane
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Have you thought of the meatworks? 3 11 hour shifts brings home $540, then you have the option of working any 2 of the next 4 days, if you work 5 days you will clear $750 in hand, and thats on day shift.
Other than that, a construction site i worked on(Im an engineer) the labourers were getting $38 per hour. And they were working 11 hour shifts for 6 days a week. My advise is to become a Boner or Slicer in the meatworks. Otherwise, you will have to work up the chain in a factory and become a foreman, and probably earn just as much as you would at the meatworks. Just a thought. Im in my 1st year out of uni and Im on 70k, plus a car, plus site bonus at the beginning of each project(At the age of 20). Its never too late to get your degree mate. Its well worth it.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: The Patch
Posts: 1,011
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Munitions disposal for ADF ranges is handled by contractors. They get paid pretty well.
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ballarat
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I work in the underground mining industry (Mining Engineer) and yes there are big dollars to be made. I've driven trucks, shotfiring/blasting, loader operating, production and development drilling, shift bossing... but you have to be preparred to work for it or find something else to do! It all sounds rosey AND I wouldn't give up my carrer for quids but nothing is for nothing, again a relentless industry. FYI our operation works 4 on 4 off alternated blocks of days and nights (6 till 6). There are lots of employers out there just decide if you want to work for an owner miner or contractor, I know which one I would prefer!
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Discovery 4
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,239
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It took me over 20 years of working to get into a 6 figure salary. No degree just plain hard work and good planning.
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Regular Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Perth, WA
Posts: 325
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Jump on the first plaine to WA and head north. Its perfect if jyou want cash now and your willing to work. Just working in a yard with no experience you can get an easy $30-35 and hour plus O/T and you can get up to 55-60 hours a week. My brother went up there at the begining of the year and the company he works for paid for him to get his truck license and scaffold ticket and he's now clearing about $2000 a week 5 on 1 off fly in fly out. I dont think you will ever find better than that for unskilled labour, provided you've got your head screwed on you can make hay while the sun shines.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary, AB. Canada
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Sorry for the late reply, been busy with work and such..
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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just walked into my new job as chemicals/pharmachutical manufacturer. still training so im doing 8 hour days, 5 days a week and im on $53000pa, thats without O/T included. once training is complete its onto the 4x12hr shifts with a shift allowance of 49% EXTRA on top of my normal pay. and for all those "you need to go to Uni to earn more money" people.....think again. ive NEVER had a job that pays less than $25 an hour and i didnt even finish year 12. |
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