Originally Posted by Paul2412

We are currently living in Brisbane. I work in IT and my girlfriend is a teacher.

IT wise, the Brisbane market is quite slow. Specific areas of IT might be stronger (I'm a .NET developer, and compared to Sydney / Melbourne the market is non existent). Teaching wise, it all seems to be more of a personal approach required to find work. We dropped CV's and went in person to more than 20 schools. It paid off, a 2 hour trial turned into full time teacher aide work. We are hoping that she can now register for tracer (the local supply work system) to hopefully find more work as a teacher rather than teacher aide.

Originally Posted by Pinkgal

Well... I'll be able to experience all that in a matter of weeks. I applied for a job on Tuesday evening (15th), she called me Wednesday to set up Skype interview on Thursday, finished Skype interview an hour ago, she called me back 30 minutes ago and OFFERED ME THE JOB

Originally Posted by Pinkgal

Thanks Paul. I don't know if you saw my other messages but I was offered a job last night, which I have accepted. I had a Skype interview with them and they called me back with the offer so now it is just Mr PG to find a job. He is sprucing up his CV and is going to be firing on all cylinders asap. He's probably going to stay home initially and settle the kids into school before looking for work.

Originally Posted by Paul2412

Congratulations! What type of IT work does Mr PG do? The company I work for is growing so there might be some openings there when he looks for work. They tend to hire privately as they hate recruitment companies!

Originally Posted by Paul2412

Congratulations! What type of IT work does Mr PG do? The company I work for is growing so there might be some openings there when he looks for work. They tend to hire privately as they hate recruitment companies!

We really enjoy Brisbane. We are currently back in the UK visiting relatives and it's made me realise just how different life is there!