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just wondering. How do you earn the cash you need to live and play with subies? Me, im a truck driver

im a casual on minimum wage :'-(

Im a school teacher but IM currently doing the ITC for a local school and what ever relief teaching I can get.

I would really prefer to be working in the mechanical industry again, as cars don't answer back half as much as spoilt teenage children

TOONGA

structural designer for GHD

currently working on the perth city link rail alliance which will keep me busy until next christmas.

for those of you interested

http://www.pta.wa.gov.au/perthcitylink/

also i like to not change my jocks for afew days to make a nice crust :P

Dunno if you'd say I earn a crust, but I spend my days telling people when and where to dig holes, and where to put the dirt they dig up.

Dane.

I like off everyone else's hard earned tax money. Great country we live in.

I work in ICT as a computer technician in a Catholic School.
60% of my money goes on my Subie, 20% on bills and the other 20% im trying to save for uni next year in Perth.
I'm sick of dealing with Dell, Acer and HP support all day then having kids bring their smashed and abused notebook computers in for me to deal with

Ground Cover Height Intervention Officer Level 4. (Cut grass for the Council)

TOONGA wrote: as cars don't answer back half as much as spoilt teenage children

TOONGA

I taught at TAFE a little while ago, but went back to fixing cars instead of teaching it, for the same reason.

Don't earn anywhere near as much, but far less stress.

littlewhiteute wrote:I taught at TAFE a little while ago, but went back to fixing cars instead of teaching it, for the same reason.

Don't earn anywhere near as much, but far less stress.

sadly it used to be good to teach at Tafe but Im hearing stories from teachers about young adults who couldn't give a flying sexual intercourse about their studies and were only there to keep a payment coming in every fortnight.

TOONGA

Im a general domestic electrician,
which includes installing lights and power-points in old decrepit houses, rental and housing commission repairs, wiring and fitting out new houses as well as commercial work in factories, clubs and pubs.

A good bit of variety which prevents the boredom of working in one place for too long

i heard andrewt is a but pirate?

I build and repair underground mining support equipment.

Some of the stuff I work on gets so badly messed up underground it's mindboggling.

Seeing 50mm thick bisalloy crumpled up like an old chip packet is a daily thing, the forces involved are enormous.

And then I get to fix it. Yay me.

Im a chef at a goverment hospital. Good hours and penalty rate on weekends make it worthwhile, otherwise its a dead boring job.

TOONGA wrote:sadly it used to be good to teach at Tafe but Im hearing stories from teachers about young adults who couldn't give a flying sexual intercourse about their studies and were only there to keep a payment coming in every fortnight.

TOONGA

True that. I just finished a 6 month tafe course in fabrication/welding. Literally half the class were as you describe, by week 6 most of them had either had a major verbal with one of the lecturers or just didn't turn up most of the time. And when they did turn up they expected to be treated like royalty AND pass the course which they hadn't done any work on. They couldn't understand that the course was completely their choice and their money.

I was there every day, and it landed me in the job I have now at a machining workshop. Just general hand at the moment, hopefully will get an apprenticeship one day.

Used to be a Property manager for years (don't hold it against me) now own my own Detailing workshop...not that I actually get paid anything significant. So funny that people pay $80/h or more for a mechanic to work on a car but raise hell when they find out my rate is a bit over $25/h not including materials. We do the same job essentially...maintaining & ensuring everything is in good shape or fixing problems.

bartending.. while im at uni not bad money shit hours... but it has its perks.

I'm currently Night managing up at Mt Hotham. After September I have no idea what kez and I will be doing - plan is to get a teaching job next year but we've got a gap that we don't know what to do with, and we don't have enough money to just bum around doing a lap of the country which would be awesome! Anyway... for now I get to go skiing often so I'm pretty content overall


Cheers

Bennie

I should say that i'm at Uni and not just mooching off the government. I completed my bachelors in applied science majoring in geology AKA rock doctor, and i'm currently doing an honours thesis in hydrogeology.