working in australia, info please

LegacyUser

hi.

i'm looking for info on working in australia.

i work in I.T , and i'd like to do somthing completly different.

money's not my main motivator here, somthing out doors would be nice.

pub work
how easy is it to find pub work in sydney? i'm thinking it would be a bit saturated, i've bit of pub work experience.

farm work
what's the story with picking fruit, i hear quite a few people do this, i've heard somthing about geting another holiday working visa if you do this?

can you find work before you go? are there recruitment agencies that specialise in this?

all suggestions welcome, and much appriciated.

ta

Dellas

not too sure but I think there is some info on www.visafirst.ie with links etc....

daveg

You'll find some info about skilled migration visa's to Australia here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054897694

You really need to specify how long you plan on going as the migration visa is very expensive.

TheBigLebowski

Pub work is fairly hard to come by as its the thing most travellers want to do. Usually a case of being in the right place at the right time or knowing someone working in a bar already.

Farm work can be bad. Fruit picking, where you get paid by the bucket is never worth it. Never. If you can get paid by the hour doing something like driving a tractor or sorting potoatoes by size it can work out ok but fairly back breaking and you'll usually start at 6AM. You'll get about $15 an hour. You can get a year extension on your working holiday visa, if you prove you worked an a farm for a certain amont of time(I think it's 2 months or something.)

Can I just recommend that you don't do any jobs for commision, whether it be fruit picking, tele sales, door to door sales, chugging. If they don't GUARANTEE hourly rates, tell them to fook off.

gonementhol

Hi OP, like TheBigLebowski said, you can apply for a second visa, but it's 3 months harvest work you have to complete before you can do this. From what I hear, this work should be avoided if at all possible unless you need to do it to stay for the extra year. It's really though and badly paid. I've a few friends over there at the minute and thats the only reason they are doing it.

Another question for the rest of ye though, I'm working in IT as well and am heading over in a couple of months for a year or so. Does anyone know how though it is to get IT work out there at the minute or whats the best route to go? Are recruitment agencies best, or should you pop around CV's yourself?

Also,whats the pay like? I'm hoping to work for a few months and between that and the money I take over have enough to do me for travelling around for the rest of the year.

Darren

TheBigLebowski wrote:

Can I just recommend that you don't do any jobs for commision, whether it be fruit picking, tele sales, door to door sales, chugging. If they don't GUARANTEE hourly rates, tell them to fook off.

gonementhol wrote:

but it's 3 months harvest work you have to complete before you can do this. From what I hear, this work should be avoided if at all possible unless you need to do it to stay for the extra year. It's really though and badly paid. I've a few friends over there at the minute and thats the only reason they are doing it.

2 very good pieces of advice above.

I was in Oz in 2004, 2 of my mates are qualified teachers but ended up chugging (charity mugging, right??) whilst waiting for some documents. Not a nice job and very hard to make any money. I didn't work at all when I was there but I did check out the IT market. I'm a storage SAN kinda person and there is loads of well paid contract and permie jobs all over Oz doing this. Check out the ozzie jobserve.

stp wrote:

i work in I.T , and i'd like to do somthing completly different.

I'm the same but if I can earn a couple of thousand dollars a week in IT or a few hundred picking crops, I'd do the IT and just work for less time.

Have a great time whatever you do out there.

Darren

LegacyUser

thanks for the feed back lads, i'd probably be best off looking for work in I.T

i'll check out that jobs site.