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danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on June 22, 2012, 06:50:03 am ---
--- Quote ------steaming pile of meadow muffin--- dude. Move to Australia! I'm a postman. I earn $22.40 an hour. After ONE year at most jobs in Australia, you are entitled to 4 weeks leave a year. That's pretty crap they treat you like that with all your qualification and experience with their equipment...
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Well where Daywane works, there are probably not big spiders, poisonous snakes, bugs, malaria. I'm sure it is fun walking around in 100+ degree weather with a nice and heavy pack on your back, or sloshing through the flood season in your waders. I'm sure you have other pitfalls that you fail to mention, but $22.40 sounds like pretty good danger money to me. I would need an air conditioned postal van first, and I would want a nice senior logistics position while you are at it.
Sign me up! :cheers:
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No malaria in Australia, or rabies either, which can't be said for your neck of the woods ;-)
This is average weather for Brisbane, where I live
We ride motorbikes to deliver mail here. Also, there are about as many taipans in Brisbane as there are rattlesnakes in Los Angeles. The pitfall I didn't mention of the major floods we had last year is not something exclusive to Australia. I believe it's possible to have floods in the US too.
I think the movie Crocodile Dundee has a lot to answer for if that's how you imagine a city in Australia to be. There are quite a few North Americans living in Australia, one's who were no doubt a little more adventurous than you. In fact, just at my branch, there are two Americans and a Canadian, out of a total of maybe 40 staff. No North American who has moved to Australia who I have ever met has wanted to go back.
There are pitfalls to Australia of course. Manufacturing is drying up, which is what Daywane is involved in. And real estate is overpriced.
Now all the jesting is out of the way, Daywane, you have no debts. You own your own house. Could you get a part time job that pays ok? Maybe even where you work? Part time still means more sex at home (",)
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on June 22, 2012, 07:11:13 am ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on June 22, 2012, 06:50:03 am ---
--- Quote ------steaming pile of meadow muffin--- dude. Move to Australia! I'm a postman. I earn $22.40 an hour. After ONE year at most jobs in Australia, you are entitled to 4 weeks leave a year. That's pretty crap they treat you like that with all your qualification and experience with their equipment...
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Well where Daywane works, there are probably not big spiders, poisonous snakes, bugs, malaria. I'm sure it is fun walking around in 100+ degree weather with a nice and heavy pack on your back, or sloshing through the flood season in your waders. I'm sure you have other pitfalls that you fail to mention, but $22.40 sounds like pretty good danger money to me. I would need an air conditioned postal van first, and I would want a nice senior logistics position while you are at it.
Sign me up! :cheers:
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No malaria in Australia, or rabies either, which can't be said for your neck of the woods ;-)
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When I saw Malaria I lol'd, and was going to respond and then I saw the posts author was Ark and was like oh, NM.
I don't have very much perspective for the OP here. I've worked in my current field for close to 9 years now. I hold a BA and won't look to go back for my masters for at least another 10 years. Any issues I've had with employers or pay I've solved by finding a new job. I've never had a problem finding a new job even in heavily saturated markets (I work in IT). I was the architect of infrastructure for several DC's at manufacturing companies a few years ago and I still hold it as one of the humblest experiences of my life. Manufacturing is a different world entirely.
At the end of the day, you need to find something to do where you won't dread going to work in the morning. Certainly there are days you may not feel like it, but you need to be able to get up and feel confident in yourself and the road map you've laid out for yourself. I'm personally not a fan of getting fired/going on unemployment for the hell of it nor am I am fan of quitting just because without something else lined up. I will however say that in light of the situation the OP is in, perhaps quitting and taking some time to look at the big picture might be beneficial.
Dervacumen:
We don't need money, but until a better alternative is on the horizon it's not going anywhere.
I don't think now would be a good time for a career change. I've been looking for work for almost a year and a half. Well over a thousand resumes. Good qualifications. Tried to apply to pick cherries and was turned down because I don't have three years of cherry picking experience. At least I have other projects keeping me busy and bringing in some dough. I wouldn't mind a job for $18 an hour in town here. Better than $450 a week.
Stay working while you find something else.
ark_ader:
--- Quote ---When I saw Malaria I lol'd, and was going to respond and then I saw the posts author was Ark and was like oh, NM.
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I comments are not getting you to respond. Oh Well.
--- Quote ---I've worked in my current field for close to 9 years now. I hold a BA and won't look to go back for my masters for at least another 10 years. Any issues I've had with employers or pay I've solved by finding a new job. I've never had a problem finding a new job even in heavily saturated markets (I work in IT).
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That is nice to know, and I am glad it is working for you, but today to work in IT (25 years experience helps) you need at least a BSc or a M.Sc, and hold some certifications. I'm studying for my Prince 2 practitioner exam, hoping it will give me a better position for a teaching post. Education is the key for success for any decent job, especially when you competing against all the new kids fresh out of Uni. BA's in IT unless it is design doesn't get you very far.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on June 22, 2012, 12:15:28 pm ---That is nice to know, and I am glad it is working for you, but today to work in IT (25 years experience helps) you need at least a BSc or a M.Sc, and hold some certifications.
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:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:
I work at a Fortune 25 company in a senior IT role. I would be shocked if I learned that 10% of our IT employees had a Masters degree in anything. Most of them don't have a Bachelor's and don't know much more than the very specific skills needed to perform their role (if they know that much). We're talking a company subject to every financial, health, and retail regulation in North America. We operate in all time zones from Hawaii to Puerto Rico.
You do not need a Bachelor's or a Master's to get an IT job. It helps but there are probably more people without them than there are with them.
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