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Fifth Column 11:45 Sun Apr 30
Getting temporary work in Australia - advice?

My 19 year old is going to Oz on one of those temporary work visas you can get at his age. He'll be there for two to four months from some point in May onwards. Flexible about exact destination. Extremely hard worker and unlike me very fit and looks like popeye given the amount of time he spends at the gym.

Can anyone in Oz advise on on best locations in Aus to go to get work / easiest sectors? Are certain cities better than others to find work?

He has no experience doing anything really beyond football coaching and working in a factory and a bit of English teaching.

Fifth Column 12:27 Tue May 2
Re: Getting temporary work in Australia - advice?

Unusually not one of you has threatened to cunt me in the bastard.

Fifth Column 12:26 Tue May 2
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Thanks all - this is appreciated

joe royal 9:59 Tue May 2
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If he googled event crew and the name of the town you can usually pick up some humping and bumping jobs.

Will need a thick skin and a good team ethic.

Mex Martillo 8:11 Tue May 2
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I did this when I was 21, so probably what I did is way out of date, but it worked for me and might be useful. I was the same as your boy knew nothing.
I went to places that had events going on. So first and longest stop was Brisbane that was holding the world expo. I checked the papers and talked to people in the hostel about getting work. There was a place you could go first thing in the morning and employers would come looking for a worker for the day. It was very hit and miss, anyone done this or that kind of approach. I got a weeks work helping a surveyor and I did an ok job so he came direct to me for a few more jobs. I got a days work in a kitchen basically washing dishes, I told them I knew how to do that and nearly killed myself opening the wrong part of an commercial kitchen dish washer to have boiling water spraying about. They told me not to come back, but then I knew how to work a dishwasher and next kitchen job I did for 4 months until I had money to travel all of Australia. That was just in the evenings. I then heard about riding these peddle taxi rickshaw things. So I started doing the in the day. You hired the thing for the day and all the money above the hire fee was yours. There were days I made over 200 dollars and days when I was hungover when I returned the thing after getting the hire fee covered. Also did that for 4 months.
A USA friend who had a car, was going to the outback and I went with her. Mainly I wanted to see what it was like, but also thought to try and get work. We went to a place roughly half way between Brisbane and Ayres rock. First weekend there on the piss in the village, I got work with a shearing game picking up the wool. I did that for a few months, hard work, but had a great time working and pissing it up with those guys.
I then continued my tour of Oz. I was close to Melbourne for the tennis open, so tried my hand for a job and with my dishwashers skills landed a job in the catering for the open. Good fun, it was a party atmosphere in the kitchen. Also slipped out to see a bit of tennis. I was very disappointed that Gabriela Sabatini looked like a big bloke in tennis drag!

Not very helpful but tell him to go where stuff is going on that bring lots of people and doing anything available.

Manuel 4:33 Tue May 2
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Roeder - Yep, most likely. Famous chefs seem to have a habit of killing themselves, any chance with Jamie Oliver or Ramsay :-)

It's sad though, had 4 kids, 2 very young.

fraser 6:41 Mon May 1
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Fucking cheek, I'm not a Grandad... :-)

The Ghost of Sven 6:37 Mon May 1
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Famous SCOTTISH chef called 'Jock' (real name Barry)
Sounds like he killed himself
Former heroin addict, bankrupt & sacked as a head chef for setting fire to an apprentice .... imagine in the end being called Barry was too much

As I said it depends WHY you want to go to Australia on a working holiday. Most I met around Cottesloe through my brothers kids were keen to be near the beach & do a bit of bar work and head down south to somewhere like Yallingup and Margaret River.
Of course SOME 19yo's may prefer to be in a Melbourne club being tongue kissed by a E'd up gurning Grandad Fraser

GoalLazio 3:59 Mon May 1
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He choked on one of Frasers milk bottle 4 eyes lenses

Manuel 3:33 Mon May 1
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What happened to the famous Aussie chef who has died 'suddenly' at 46?

fraser 1:36 Mon May 1
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Don't listen to me but you agree that winter can feel colder :-)

Perth has great beaches if that's only what you want. But for 19 Yr old who wants night life, nah.

Been there once the place is dead, Melbourne is full of twenty year old from Perth who left cause it's boring when young and single.

I can't expect Sven to remember that though especially when he can't remember what nationality he is :-)

The Ghost of Sven 1:24 Mon May 1
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Dont really have central heating (or a need for it) in Australia so always felt colder there on a 5 degree Perth day than I ever have in London.
Take a jumper ... or add the usual socks to your sandal combination.
Depends what you are going to Australia for but never understood the idea of some Queensland fruit farm in the middle of nowhere being attacked by cane toads and drop bears. AND ENORMOUS SPIDERS THE SIZE OF YOUR HEAD. And flying cockroaches

If you dont have other work skills get a share house near the beach in a city and get some bar work
Even in Perth .... don't listen to the erstwhile Pricktorian fraser

Haz 12:39 Mon May 1
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Brisbane, Byron Bay, Sydney or Melbourne. Loads, and I mean LOADS of work, and you get to have fun too. Byron and Brisbanr better weather this time of year.

Lots of good looking, fir and healthy Shiela's out there for the last, too.

Cheezey Bell-End 9:56 Mon May 1
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It's already wintery here now. About 17c in the day and about 7c at night. I've known it to drop to about 2c in June/July. It's like London in October.
I've been back nearly a year and thanks to an ongoing La Niña, it's been cool and damp the whole time. Last year England had a typical Melbourne summer with 40c days and fires while here we only had one or two days over 40.

fraser 9:09 Mon May 1
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I always found the winters in Melbourne harder than the ones here, though you're right they're warmer and much shorter. Just our house was never ever comfortable in winter, just not built for it.

Cheezey Bell-End 7:35 Mon May 1
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Melbourne and Sydney winter is not like UK winter. They could work hard here saving money, then take time off in summer.
I have a cousin who has gone the other way to work in the UK.

arsegrapes 3:43 Mon May 1
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Nonesense, no harm came to any folk from stirring someone else's porridge.

frank marker 1:33 Mon May 1
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My offspring worked on a mango farm outside of Cairns. Tough work, you can be allergic to the fruit and the comaraderie was somewhat limited if you couldn't speak chinese. Much money to be earned on the West Coast in mining but you'd have to not mind sharing the one woman between the 98 other blokes.

gph 12:34 Mon May 1
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There's a fortune to be made by anyone who can demonstrate immunity to the venom of the many venomous creatures out there...

(FFS, even the cartoon platypus can inject you with unpleasant stuff)

There is a minor downside

Hermit Road 11:41 Sun Apr 30
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He should get a part in Neighbours and start a singing career off the back of it.

Failing that, he could set up a business providing rides for tourists on the backs of kangaroos

joe royal 11:36 Sun Apr 30
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Talking of bunderburg.

If he gets the opportunity to fly into/out of then do it. It’s an experience.

J.Riddle 3:27 Sun Apr 30
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Fortunes beiing made in mining they say, although if anything like my dreams they fade and die.

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