Bricklayer in Oz

At what point do you think Paul will get the message that he shouldn't be a bricklayer anymore ?

In less than a year he has hurt his back badly, torn the muscles in his arm and, on Friday, he fell off the scaffolding and has torn chunks of his flesh out (one in particular is still raw, he should have gone to casulty). .

Ok, so it's not cold here and, whilst we have had a fair amount of rain the last couple of months, no where near what we would have got in the UK but I do think that he's finding it harder to work here than in the UK. In addition, you may need to get a health and safety card to work here but h & s is otherwise non existant.

Compared to most other occupations in WA, brickies and tradies are very well paid. That said, I think they all earn every single cent. 

We're still hoping for a lotto win before Paul kills himself !

01:24 - Mon 15 October 2007