Hey Lulldapull I know those markers well, and also the stormwater backing up, it happens frequently around all of the low lying ex swamp now developed areas of Brisbane, Rosalie cops it often and in Hawthorne and Bulimba last time that's how the flood damage was done. They have non return flaps on all of those storm water outlets along the river now to prevent this. Were you working in Clough's Milton office during the last flood.
well back in 2011 for a brief period I was with beca on Graham street in Milton working on the RTA Gove Alumina refinery expansion. That was treating all the supernated liquor in the red mud.
Clough got an office on main Coro drive. They've got no work on anymore Bardon.....Some SA mob recently bought them out.....Shit's all wrapped up in Brisi now.
Mining is dead in the water, and a lot of my project colleagues from Santos/ QGC/ Origin are sittin home now looking to go overseas
well back in 2011 for a brief period I was with beca on Graham street in Milton working on the RTA Gove Alumina refinery expansion. That was treating all the supernated liquor in the red mud.
Clough got an office on main Coro drive. They've got no work on anymore Bardon.....Some SA mob recently bought them out.....Shit's all wrapped up in Brisi now.
Mining is dead in the water, and a lot of my project colleagues from Santos/ QGC/ Origin are sittin home now looking to go overseas
Yes I know Clough and that office pretty well as I worked for them for 15 years left , met Harold Clough a few times and was with them when they were private and through the transition to public. I left them over ten years ago but keep in touch with some of the longer term staff members. Murray & Roberts bought all of their shares and de-listed them. Coincidentally I drove past their office in Johannesburg a fortnight ago.
Just as well you managed to get off of the roof at the Regatta safely.
I'd be honest here Bardon, compared to lets say only 5 years ago, the jobs environment in Brisi and even more so Perth have seen the worst. There's very little work there now. With the death of mining I've made a miraculous transition to gas........the vast majority of other ex mining guys are shit outta luck. I mean they're talking about doing something else totally.......
Now its all about overseas jobs for me, while I slug it out on a mediocre salary at APA.
Only a matter of time before I get out on some project in either Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kazakhastan or Azerbaijan...........
I have fond memories of the Royal Exchange Beer Garden Sunday sessions when I first moved to Brisbane back in the eighties. 11am a great live performer singing Montego Bay, plenty of female yooni students and jugs of rum and coke, I thought I had died and went to heaven, that's when I knew Brisbane was for me.
Ah yes. Sunday morning decision for the uni student: 10-12 at Regatz or 11-1 at RE?
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. --Gloria Steinem AREPS™
Ah yes. Sunday morning decision for the uni student: 10-12 at Regatz or 11-1 at RE?
It's great to reminisce on the good old days, I took a job offer in Brisbane while living in Sydney and everyone told me I would hate Brisbane as it was a deadzone, I was relatively new to Australia and didn't know much about Brisbane. I found it to be quite the opposite in fact and enjoyed many of its positive attributes back then. The other good thing about Brisbane is that no doubt it has come of age of sorts since then, G20 in November, no longer a lower salary city (in my industry anyway) and I have a completely different and enjoyable lifestyle now from when I moved up as a young single man. No more jugs of rum and coke and Sunday sessions in the RE beer garden, now its low profile family and close friend gatherings on the deck with a rack of lamb on the Weber, washed down with copious amounts of Barossa red, our time spent admiring the ever growing city skyline. Yep looking back on it all Brisbane was a good move for me, despite the dire warnings not to come here.
It's great to reminisce on the good old days, I took a job offer in Brisbane while living in Sydney and everyone told me I would hate Brisbane as it was a deadzone, I was relatively new to Australia and didn't know much about Brisbane. I found it to be quite the opposite in fact and enjoyed many of its positive attributes back then. The other good thing about Brisbane is that no doubt it has come of age of sorts since then, G20 in November, no longer a lower salary city (in my industry anyway) and I have a completely different and enjoyable lifestyle now from when I moved up as a young single man. No more jugs of rum and coke and Sunday sessions in the RE beer garden, now its low profile family and close friend gatherings on the deck with a rack of lamb on the Weber, washed down with copious amounts of Barossa red, our time spent admiring the ever growing city skyline. Yep looking back on it all Brisbane was a good move for me, despite the dire warnings not to come here.
At about the time I graduated, Telecom Australia, who previously had taken about quarter of the graduating class in elec eng, stopped hiring new grads, so almost all my class were forced to go to Sydney or Melbourne. At the time Brisbane was branch office city heading for sales office city so not much opportunity for the newly graduated. As a result, there were a lot of Brisbaneites scattered around oz looking for a way to get back. Very few of them made it back though. It is a very different story for electrical engineers now. Much more opportunity.
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. --Gloria Steinem AREPS™
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