Barnsleyfan

Hi,

New to this site. Quick question.

My wife is being offered the chance to relocate to Cairns or Townsville (we currently live in Brissie).

We're not sure whether to go or stay where we are - we really like it here.

It kind of depends on my chances of finding work. I'm looking for accounting or bookkeeping work but have been out of the profession for about 18 months. I can't even find work here in Brisbane and I'm lookiing for much less senior roles than I once had.

We're tempted to go but I don't want to be stuck jobless.

Any advice would be greatly appeciated. Also which is the better bet for work in my profession - Cairns or Townsville.

Weebie

Not sure about Townsville but Carins has one of the worst employment situations in Australia atm.

Sally Simpson

I have a friend who works for an accountant & they have just laid off one of the accountants. The husband of another friend is currently unemployed & searching for work in this field but there is little about. Not a good employment situation here in Cairns right now, sorry!

trice_ie

hi
used to live in tsv, it's a nice big country town. it's got a large military community so that keeps a lot of businesses going. try the townsville bulletin paper most jobs are advertised there

Bix

Agree with the comments about employment situation in Cairns but there are still several accountancy jobs advertised every week ranging from bookkeeping, taxation, audit etc.