Young bloke to China

[GMC]

Some Pipewelders are on 400k here in the Wests NW    setting a bad bench mark    ?
cheers A

Hmmm, I’m a ‘pipewelder’ and I don’t earn anywhere near that
Wonder what I’m doing wrong?
Maybe I don’t charge enough!!

[Tim754]

Some Pipewelders are on 400k here in the Wests NW  Sad  setting a bad bench mark  Sad  ?
Yep Alison but best to tell people it costs around...$350 a bloody day... to rent a basic three bedroom house in Places like Karratha. Dampier, Port Hedland etc Oh and a standard Chicken parmagania at the local pub ...$76....Silly really on Saturday my daughter (A flight attendent with a certain Australian flagship airline) makes my entire 9 hours day (at weekend rate,_  wage in 52 minutes.....

[cheapracer]

the problem you have is some some mining companies are almost offering that ...

So I've heard as well as that Victorian Desalination project.

But those guys will still be working for somebody else 8 till 5, 48 weeks a year in 20 years time as many of my teenage mates still do - got to see the bigger picture if you can't see that then you're not suitable anyway.

[Marc.com]

Yep and the last 3 mining booms in Australia have ended up with massive inflation and the whole lot imploding so enjoy your $76 chicken for now.

[Lozza]

Well so far no good. Apparently if I pay a $1000 per day, supply a Porsche with mandatory whores and a 2 hour week living in a penthouse I may get an interest.

Remember it's an international labour market these days and you have to compete against the Germans as much as anyone else.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160

hmmm that's  a unique approach, I bet it worked

[cheapracer]

Yep Alison but best to tell people it costs around...$350 a bloody day... to rent a basic three bedroom house in Places like Karratha.
Yep and the last 3 mining booms in Australia have ended up with massive inflation and the whole lot imploding so enjoy your $76 chicken for now.

German Guy I know locally wants me to help him push his bamboo and straw "Easyblocks" to those areas. Can build houses in a 1/10 the time and 1/4 the cost with them apparently.

http://www.sunchine.cn/en/products.html

I'm not interested but if anyone else is he will talk to you.

[VMX247]

German Guy I know locally wants me to help him push his bamboo and straw "Easyblocks" to those areas. Can build houses in a 1/10 the time and 1/4 the cost with them apparently.
http://www.sunchine.cn/en/products.html
I'm not interested but if anyone else is he will talk to you.
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mmmmm ...Not to sure if our Australian Standards would allow such materials in cyclone areas.
cheers A

[cheapracer]

mmmmm ...Not to sure if our Australian Standards would allow such materials in cyclone areas.
cheers A

He has the applicable ratings but you just touched on why I'm not interested. I've built an extension on a previous house, put up large sheds and bought and moved a complete house from suburbs to my rural block of land where the wind factor was a higher grade.

That was all too hard and I couldn't imagine trying to get these done from scratch - no thanks, leave it to someone who knows the ins and outs.

[VMX247]

color=red]$350 a bloody day[/color]... to rent a basic three bedroom house in Places like Karratha. Dampier, Port Headland etc Oh and a standard Chicken parmagania at the local pub ...$76...

Yes sorry Tim, was thinking of the back in the day,It was so not hard in the NW         
cheers A

[Mike52]

German Guy I know locally wants me to help him push his bamboo and straw "Easyblocks" to those areas. Can build houses in a 1/10 the time and 1/4 the cost with them apparently.
http://www.sunchine.cn/en/products.html
I'm not interested but if anyone else is he will talk to you.

mmmmm ...Not to sure if our Australian Standards would allow such materials in cyclone areas.
cheers A
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Queensland rules have already or will change in the very near future.
Not sure why.

[Bioflex]

For anyone at crossroads in their life or young enough not to be bogged down yet, a job like this would be a an awesome experience.
I spent a year in Japan 6 years ago and having travelled to China 3 times now for business and holidays, it would be my pick of places to live.
It's amazingly diverse in weather as well as lifestyle, a few hours on the plane can take you from one of the worlds busiest cities, shanghai, which financially appears like any western country, to many places where time seems to have stood still for 500 years.
Whoever takes this up will have a life changing experience. As for girls, if you're youngish and at least average looking you'll feel like a celebrity every day.

[cheapracer]

For anyone at crossroads in their life or young enough not to be bogged down yet, a job like this would be a an awesome experience.
I spent a year in Japan 6 years ago and having travelled to China 3 times now for business and holidays, it would be my pick of places to live.
It's amazingly diverse in weather as well as lifestyle, a few hours on the plane can take you from one of the worlds busiest cities, shanghai, which financially appears like any western country, to many places where time seems to have stood still for 500 years.
Whoever takes this up will have a life changing experience.

Nice write up and you would think so, have a couple of prospects but the response has been underwhelming. They chase money but don't realize even if they don't stay here that the experience on their resume will help them to get better jobs/more money later in life anyway. 

As for girls, if you're youngish and at least average looking you'll feel like a celebrity every day.

Indeed, 6 years of it and it hasn't gotten boring yet.

[Bioflex]

Trying to chase money overseas is stupid IMO. Unless you are ridiculously qualified in a corporate job and are posted by your law or accounting firm (for example) to a first world place, it's easier to just work hard back home.
My only regret from Japan was working too much and spending less time seeing the country and meeting its people. I think I saved about $10,000 in the process which was not a scratch on some of the experiences I could have had.
If people realise the time they could have doing something like this they'd be fighting for the position.

Cheapracer, can you provide a bit of info as to what you are doing and where you are?
Sounds a lot more interesting than teaching!

[Marc.com]

Trying to chase money overseas is stupid IMO. Unless you are ridiculously qualified in a corporate job and are posted by your law or accounting firm (for example) to a first world place, it's easier to just work hard back home.

After 12 years of working in Korea, Taiwan and Japan I would tend to agree, if money is your only motivation then at the moment you are better off in Aussie, but it hasn't always been this way. In my case it was more a corporate thing where I wanted to see how far I could go.

[Bioflex]

Marc, what industry are you in?
I know 15 - 25 years ago there was a massive amount of money to be earned in Japan, I knew a few teachers who did a few stints, then managed to buy property in Aus outright.

Some money is there but compared the once in a life time experience you can have (most people won't be able to do this after mortgage, wife and kids), I reckon it's about maximizing the experience.
After over staying my visa the Japanese Government made me wait a month before heading home, that's when I got to see the real Japan, not being able to work allowed me to travel everywhere.