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140k a year jobs in ozzie land

  • 12-11-2011 10:28PM
    #1
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1112/australia.html

    nice... tax is a bitch there, my friend in WA is getting raped with tax.

    they want over 100 candidates but id say Ireland would have 100,000 eager punters with qualifications there for em


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Leaning on shovels and getting paid for it, brilliant.


  • #3
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    The grass is never greener on the other side


  • #4
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Ruu wrote: »
    Leaning on shovels and getting paid for it, brilliant.

    That's the council you're thinking of there. Construction workers get sacked if they do that.


  • #5
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Its foremen jobs and management jobs.


  • #6
    u140acro3xs7dm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭u140acro3xs7dm


    orourkeda wrote: »
    The grass is never greener on the other side
    €140k a year V €188 a week
    Sun V Rain

    Technically the grass is greener here but theoretically it would definitely be greener over in Oz if you where in that line of work.


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  • #7
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    You'd have very little after tax. :p


  • #8
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    Ruu wrote: »
    Leaning on shovels and getting paid for it, brilliant.

    they are skilled jobs...


  • #9
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Australia, its a great place to live/work.
    Id do the same job I do here, for less money over there of I got the chance!

    Dam wife won't emigrate!


    Grumble grumble...


  • #10
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    x in the city wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1112/australia.html

    nice... tax is a bitch there, my friend in WA is getting raped with tax.

    they want over 100 candidates but id say Ireland would have 100,000 eager punters with qualifications there for em


    I can never understand why people have to use that word to express a non-related negative experience.

    Is there no other verb that you could use to describe what is, in reality, a much lesser bad experience?

    There are countless. Seriously, think about it.


  • #11
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    orourkeda wrote: »
    The grass is never greener on the other side

    its greener where I am, Ireland had funk all jobs for me and I got a masters. all my mates have legged it.

    I miss the folk but whats to do.


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  • #12
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,768 ✭✭✭flutered


    seven aussie bucks for a bananna :eek:, this sets the marker.


  • #13
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    You'd have very little after tax. :p

    about ca 38,000 eu on tax, give or take


  • #14
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    kraggy wrote: »
    I can never understand why people have to use that word to express a non-related negative experience.

    Is there no other verb that you could use to describe what is, in reality, a much lesser bad experience?

    There are countless. Seriously, think about it.

    sorry, i blame souness. :pac:


  • #15
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    flutered wrote: »
    seven aussie bucks for a bananna :eek:, this sets the marker.

    source?


  • #16
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    flutered wrote: »
    seven aussie bucks for a bananna :eek:, this sets the marker.

    I don't think so.

    Source?


  • #17
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    a lot of friends and family have headed down there for work and they have all commented that it is VERY expensive to live there. Wages are high for a reason, bar workers are getting 20-30 dorrar an hour, but apparently you need it because after tax and the cost of bananas etc, it's not a cheap place to be..:)


  • #18
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    I'd say a lot of people will be applying for this


  • #19
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,871 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Simple solution. Sell bananas!


  • #20
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    RTE keeps saying people are needed to work in OZ but Oz keeps saying they aren't:confused:


  • #21
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    al28283 wrote: »
    RTE keeps saying people are needed to work in OZ but Oz keeps saying they aren't:confused:

    Shortage of wizards though


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  • #22
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    flutered wrote: »
    Four aussie bucks for a kilo of bananas :eek:, this sets the marker.

    Fixed that for ya :p


  • #23
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,768 ✭✭✭flutered


    x in the city wrote: »
    source?
    a mate on the fone each and every week, btw he has no work for the next three weeks, his employer told him yesterday, would the man get away with this in paddys land.


  • #24
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,981 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Ghandee wrote: »
    I don't think so.

    Source?

    16 dollars for 4 bananas from a lad working in a quarry. But he's in the middle of nowhere so you pay crazy money for anything 'fancy'.


  • #25
    ro2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭ro2


    The high price of bananas is due to the cyclone. I wouldn't use it as a yardstick to measure the cost of living by.


  • #26
    biftek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭biftek


    aussie here, i can confirm that bannana go for $7 a kilo , on a good week you might pick them up for $6


  • #27
    mandrake04
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    x in the city wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1112/australia.html

    nice... tax is a bitch there, my friend in WA is getting raped with tax.

    they want over 100 candidates but id say Ireland would have 100,000 eager punters with qualifications there for em

    It RTE for FFS, they haven't a clue when it comes to Oz they really make me laugh when the come out with such crap. Sure it was only last year they were claiming that tens of thousands of Irish people are migrating to Australia every year when in fact since July 2008 there has been less than 10,000 Irish people migrated to Australia.

    Typical RTE BS
    An Australian company is looking for over 100 Irish construction foremen and site managers to work on the country's largest natural gas project.

    What they are going to go to London and Manchester and specifically just hire Irish construction workers? Why not just go straight to Dublin if they are looking 100 Irish worker and not waste time in London & Manchester.

    Unless they are maybe going hire 30 from each city, which means the English are in with a chance of 60 of the jobs. But then 30 doesnt sound as good as 100.

    $140K+ is probably for a white collar Civil Engineer, your average trades man might get around $90K-115K, a labourer turning up with a shovel and hard hat is hardly going met the visa conditions as Labourer is not on any list. The condition of getting a sponsored visa is that no suitable Local can fill the position.

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/

    $140K you would lose $39750, that's 28%

    orourkeda wrote: »
    The grass is never greener on the other side

    Thats true is a sunburnt yellow this time of the year.
    flutered wrote: »
    seven aussie bucks for a bananna :eek:, this sets the marker.

    Must have been a big banana, over 1 kg?

    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/


  • #28
    chrismon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭chrismon


    I dont know why everyone thinks Australia is the land of endless work.
    You might get paid big wages, but you work the hours to get them.
    Four weeks on, one week off with 12 hour days, living in a horrible workers camp.
    And it is definatly expensive to live there, myself and the girlfriend were paying $310 a week for a tiny studio apartment, literally one room and a bathroom.
    Iv seen red peppers, capcicums as they call them going for $17.99 a kg!


  • #29
    biftek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭biftek


    chrismon wrote: »
    I dont know why everyone thinks Australia is the land of endless work.
    You might get paid big wages, but you work the hours to get them.
    Four weeks on, one week off with 12 hour days, living in a horrible workers camp.
    And it is definatly expensive to live there, myself and the girlfriend were paying $310 a week for a tiny studio apartment, literally one room and a bathroom.
    Iv seen red peppers, capcicums as they call them going for $17.99 a kg!
    $310 geez where were you staying? what city were you staying in , were you living in inner city or out in the suburbs? inner city is expensive compared to the suburbs

    horrible wokers camps , four weeks on 1 week off sounds , 12 hr shifts , sounds like you were working out in the mines

    and red peppers/capcicums at $18 a kg again where you were staying ?

    endless employment in Australia is out in the mines , good money but you work for it


  • #30
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    flutered wrote: »
    seven aussie bucks for a bananna :eek:, this sets the marker.

    yes but there the ones the giraffes lay, hard to come by.


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  • #31
    chrismon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭chrismon


    I was living in Bowen, North Queensland.
    Really small country town, full of rednecks :pac:
    They actually grew capcicums in the town, prices were ridiculous.
    I wasnt working in the mines, but I did maintenance work in the camps and mines as a sparky. You right there is endless work in the mines.
    You definatly do work for it, people think its easy work.
    I dont understand how people can decide to move their families to Australia for good when they have never even set foot in the place before :rolleyes:


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