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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Victoria
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most of the real skilled work has been sent overseas for cheap bad labour jobs.
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Living the Dream
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Traralgon, Victoria
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I'm now doing welding supervision and inspection, with both Australian and International qualifications, dealing with offshore oil/gas work and powerstation high pressure parts, often super critical projects. It's all about the company you work for and what they do on a day to day basis. |
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ghetto, SA
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Forklift driver is the way to go.
25 bucks an hour average down here in SA. You get to sit on your *** all day and complain to the guys that actually do work about how you're over worked. Only downside to it, is listening to the truckies complaining about their hard days work sitting on their *** doing sweet f-all. |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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good on you blue ice, it good to see a young tradesman do well. It looks like you will go far.
But back to my first post, if you are unskilled, well you can get skilled at tafe for starters. |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ipswich, Qld
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I have also noticed of late the advertising of jobs that don't exist...recruitment companies used to use them to 'keep their talent pool up'...they like to call them Expressions of Interest these days, as opposed to a big advertisement calling all different work industries for jobs that are not currently available (and dependent on whether the recruitment company can get the contract to supply the said 'government agency, etc' with staff'... As far as unskilled workers go, some of the bigger manufacturers (for example FMCG) are actually expanding, not shrinking...the food industry will always require workers, and their staff usually start out unskilled...
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Wirlankarra yanama
Join Date: May 2006
Location: God's Country
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Unskilled equates to A02-A04 casual/temp work for a state government department. I find unskilled to be a terrible term as these people are moved from the private sector doing productive work and find themselves in meaningless roles essentially sucking on the public teat, no fault of their own and I do not hold anything against these folks - just my experience of what seems to be happening. Our good hard earned tax dollars being used to keep bloated inefficient government bureaucracies shored up, whilst our taxes can not be used to keep private industries afloat - go figure??? |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Perth
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs Melbourne
Posts: 17,798
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OH&S officers, they're pretty useless.
The one we got at the moment doesn't know the difference between welding and cutting with an oxy. Large pay for being useless.....like people in HR.
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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I remember asking an OH&S guy about a young bloke being requested to weld gal. He just gave me a blank look like I was talking another language. The good OH&S people are usually the ones who have come from the floor and understand the processes and some of the difficulties involved. |
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs Melbourne
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Trust me if this one can be overpaid and still be there then not really a highly skilled job.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Perth
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It could just be a W.A. thing, but when people are getting around $20 an hour to move racks , operate a pallet jack or pack boxes, only to walk out halfway through a shift, without telling anyone. It's makes you wonder. Cheers
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Sadly the EB is dead.... Now a AWD TX Territory Daily P6 Silver Monarch Weekender And on 2 Wheels, ZZR 250 Can do mixer shaft replacement on BA-BF Falcon and SX-SY, fix your heater Today. PM For more details For sale: Heaps of Territory bits and bobs including front brembo doglegs, NOS I-design territory body kit painted offshore, also FPV 290 engine bits. FS thread here http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11397826 Pm for more details. |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Victoria
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My mother's in the same position. She's worked with a clothing manufacturer for a good 20 years odd and last year she was made redundant. Now she just stays at home with nothing to do as she can't get other jobs (mainly due to language barriers - she can speak English; just not very well).
Thankfully I'm able to have a job. Even though it's not what I studied for in Uni, it's something that can lead to potential future careers.
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