Mate, that's what I'm thinking $1000 per week is not much. So it's all about how do I get to that 10K per month. Fuck the corporate world, so it's either mining or doing my own business.
Corporate or professional services can get you there. You just need to work and party hard for the first 5 years then saving 10k per month after that is doable. Forget about saving those first 5 years though, you need to work like a demon and blow off lots of steam. Doing both gets you noticed and moves you up. To borrow a line, I made shitloads and spent most of it on booze, fine food and women - the rest I just wasted.
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Corporate or professional services can get you there. You just need to work and party hard for the first 5 years then saving 10k per month after that is doable. Forget about saving those first 5 years though, you need to work like a demon and blow off lots of steam. Doing both gets you noticed and moves you up. To borrow a line, I made shitloads and spent most of it on booze, fine food and women - the rest I just wasted.
Respects dude. If I could make the same coin doing on commission selling houses, I would take that route.
The estate agent life is highly lucrative. I think that appeals to my goals. I know some of mates will give me shit but that's the deal.
12-hour shifts, 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, dry camp and hot bedding. Hard to get into because everyone who is in is trying to get their family and mates in because the money's damn good. Have to spend a year or more as a shitkicker no matter how good you were at what you did before, and the work's dangerous.
If you can live in a caravan or sponge off the oldies for the 2 weeks you aren't working, you can sock away very serious cash doing this. Assuming you can get in and assuming you can take the pace. It's also bloody dangerous - did I mention that?
My brother does it and he likes it. But then he's been a cattle farmer and a servo owner so he knows what hard work is all about. He hates being home because the missus works him 13 hours a day.
12-hour shifts, 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, dry camp and hot bedding. Hard to get into because everyone who is in is trying to get their family and mates in because the money's damn good. Have to spend a year or more as a shitkicker no matter how good you were at what you did before, and the work's dangerous.
If you can live in a caravan or sponge off the oldies for the 2 weeks you aren't working, you can sock away very serious cash doing this. Assuming you can get in and assuming you can take the pace. It's also bloody dangerous.
My brother does it and he likes it. But then he's been a cattle farmer and a servo owner so he knows what hard work is all about. He hates being home because the missus works him 13 hours a day.
Cheers. Yep, know the deal as mates are doing it and always been keen to get me in. Some hardcore partying in the non-work times. But who says I have to follow the boys to the decadence in Thailand? The old man says go for it.
Credentials in machinery operation or a trade would be better. Not many nobs out at the camps.
Nobs? I do agree trades are quite handy, and in Victoria it's the best spot to have a trade on a commercial project, just finding the work can get competitive
Nobs? I do agree trades are quite handy, and in Victoria it's the best spot to have a trade on a commercial project, just finding the work can get competitive
I was being a little facetious. I am sure there are people with degrees etc. out on the drilling rigs. But the people who work as engineers and geologists tend to be at head office. The drilling rigs tend to be small camps - just operating the machines - more manual skills are the go. Mining sites are different of course - bigger operations - and the geologists and engineers get out in the field but aren't the 14x12 bus in bus out crowd. My brother doesn't have a trade, but had a lot of time up on heavy machinery, and I think that helped him get the job in the first place - after more than a year of working at getting in. He started out as a labourer - but a labourer who earned as much as an engineer behind a desk in Sydney.
As you say, competitive. Dunno about WA, but the story that you can just walk out to the mines or gasfields in Qld and pick up a job driving trucks for a fortune is a myth. Operating plant is a skill with qualifications and you need the tickets. Also, at the first sign of a downturn these guys start cutting shifts fairly fast and people lose their jobs.
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Nobs? I do agree trades are quite handy, and in Victoria it's the best spot to have a trade on a commercial project, just finding the work can get competitive
I was being a little facetious. I am sure there are people with degrees etc. out on the drilling rigs. But the people who work as engineers and geologists tend to be at head office. The drilling rigs tend to be small camps - just operating the machines - more manual skills are the go. Mining sites are different of course - bigger operations - and the geologists and engineers get out in the field but aren't the 14x12 bus in bus out crowd. My brother doesn't have a trade, but had a lot of time up on heavy machinery, and I think that helped him get the job in the first place - after more than a year of working at getting in. He started out as a labourer - but a labourer who earned as much as an engineer behind a desk in Sydney.
As you say, competitive. Dunno about WA, but the story that you can just walk out to the mines or gasfields in Qld and pick up a job driving trucks for a fortune is a myth. Operating plant is a skill with qualifications and you need the tickets. Also, at the first sign of a downturn these guys start cutting shifts fairly fast and people lose their jobs.
I know that tickets help, but connections are also very important. My mates are a mix of tradies and those who marched straight in. One of them knew someone who had a pipe inpector background overseas who can't seem to get anything.
Future, get in there to the mines mate and start earning the coin. You got an Empire to build!
Wont be long before tradies up there are earning more than CEOs in Sydney and those other old-world places. You want to be in there at the start of the upcycle, it'll be too late later!
You'll be able to buy a whole row of mansions in Peppermint Grove and let them out to the CEOs and other nancy boys who dont do real work!
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