Originally Posted by ferguson641120 (Post 4236064)

cheers ozspur for your answer, you have had us both in stiches, the mrs now knows what donald is.

so basically its easy to pick up. is there anything that you know of that i need to prepare myself for?

cheers

Originally Posted by OZSpur (Post 4237083)

The heat! Dont know where youre going but by 6.30 i'm sweating like a pig and its very very uncomfortable for the next 8 hours.

Oh and all this for the grand total of almost £100 a day!!

Originally Posted by thedons (Post 4237265)

I'm new to this, and like to hear both side's of the story, Was thinking of moving to Cairns but now i'm being swayed to perth,
Can anyone offer any advise regarding cairns!
Which would be the better option,
Would appreciate any feed back,cheers:eek:

Originally Posted by OZSpur (Post 4237083)

The heat! Dont know where youre going but by 6.30 i'm sweating like a pig and its very very uncomfortable for the next 8 hours.

Oh and all this for the grand total of almost £100 a day!!

Originally Posted by >Trigger< (Post 4237390)

Assuming you do an 8 hour day...$12.50 an hour...you must be a shit brickie mate!

Originally Posted by OZSpur (Post 4237420)

$30 an hour = $240 a day
So at the exchange rate not even a £100 a day

And i was north east London apprentice of the year 1992 thank you very much

Originally Posted by OZSpur (Post 4237420)

$30 an hour = $240 a day
So at the exchange rate not even a £100 a day

And i was north east London apprentice of the year 1992 thank you very much

Originally Posted by thedons (Post 4237434)

It was cancelled that year and moved to b'mouth i won it!!!

Originally Posted by LouiseD (Post 3984919)

Hi there
I'm a bit late in adding my comments to this thread as I've only just found it but felt that I just had to agree with Oxford Bricky.

We've been in Melbourne for around 10 months now and are still dipping into our UK savings to pay the rent because of the appalling low wages that brickies are paid here. My OH brings home around half of what he used to earn in the UK and thats if he manages to get a full week in. Since we've been here, he's worked about six full weeks - the other weeks he's had to take days off because the guy(s) he's working for don't have any work on - obviously the days you don't work, you don't get paid.

Things are so bad that we have said enough is enough and will be cutting our losses here and heading home fairly soon. We did want to pack it all in when we found out the rates but thought that we would stick it out and at least try after all we'd been through to get here. When we first arrived, everyone we spoke to was telling us "you'll earn a fortune as a brickie over here" of course this was utter nonsense and you soon learn the reality of it all.

Just to rub salt in the wound even further, OH got work on a commercial site just over 3 weeks ago so had to join the union to be able to work on the site. He paid his union fees which were around $100, worked a week and then was laid off for two weeks! It's a complete joke here in Victoria - like going back to the Thatcher years in the UK, scratching around for any titbit of a job thats going. We can't wait to get out of here and start living again.

Listen to the original poster and don't bother coming here if you are a brickie.

Originally Posted by geary11 (Post 4241561)

i live in adelaide and earn $850 per thousand that a whopping 85 cents a brick
take your tax out and your left with about £500 quid goes a long way so im happy start at 7 am finish at 3pm and pay a young labradour $450 a week so loving it at the moment cant complain.

but be prepared when workin for some one $25>30 per hour workin 8 hour and gettin whipped by the forman NICE , saying c'mon push , F**k that.....in this heat lol........,

Its not all roses...........but look where you are the sun burn country

geary