chris and farideh

Very funny how things work here, my OH is engineer with well over 20 years experience, in Adelaide he send his CV, to every Tom, Dick & Harry of agency, but nothing.
He wanted to work in mining industry, but he kept being refused, as they kept saying you don’t have any experience in the field.
Then 5 months into our stay here, he gets job offered in QLD, in a company which does a bit of everything, Mining, dam, & loads of other things.
Now this week he went to New Castle for a training course in "Mining" & the first day the lecture tells him your talent is wasted here, is it ok if I send your details to some other mining company, that's even without looking at his CV.
So now one company taken him, is that mean he's good enough for others to take look at him, what's point of doing CV of your experiences.

bridie

Yes, i've heard that old chestnut "you cant work in the mines if you dont have mining exp" from a good friend of mine who's OH is an engineer.

i think a lot of jobs here seem to work on the "it's not what you know but who you know" thing...

Good luck

chris and farideh

It's true, even thought he had done so many different soft wares, which they use in mining, but its not what you know, but who you know, oh well somebody else has notice him now let see what happens.

Wendy

Is it in SA?

chris and farideh

No sadly, Brisbane again, but he did met people from adelaide, perth, all over really, they said to him, once you know this software, jobs would pours in.
I might be back, when you thought you got rid of me.
How did it go this afternoon?

Wendy

I hope so. Beth asked me yesterday on the tram if we would be seeing you agaim - it seems she really likes you and your kids

So do you want to meet next week sometime? when is best for you? and where?

I hope you get a job offer in SA soon. I will really miss you when you go

This aft was fine. I've booked another two lessons with him and will tell you about it later x

Dorothy

It's the way of things here. My OH is an engineer, too and you know about the trouble he had finding work in SA. Funny enough, in the last week or two he's had 4 phone calls from South Australian companies asking if he was interested in work. I told him to tell them yes, so long as they pay ALL of our relocation costs as well as any costs associated with breaking our lease here in Perth. We haven't heard back yet, so I'm assuming the answer is no.

Don't worry, Farideh. You're going to be fine in Qld. It's not too far to fly over to Adelaide to visit if you get homesick for coffee in Rundle Mall with Wendy & Julia.

chris and farideh

I like both your kids too, I'm still laughing at what Chris called us, girls, when I said I like what he said , then he said we are not exactly old age pensioners.
very funny boy you got there, & Beth she is just sweet heart, lucky you, I wish Bi stayed that age, she too was sweet heart, look at her now, real Madam, I know she's taken thatt after her auntie, not me.
I'm doing dentist, bloody place is costing me fortune, any way that's on tuesday afternoon, & got hospital appointment on Thursday, so I can do Monday or Wednesday, Chris is here on Friday, so cant do that day.
Have to make sure to bring ball this time, went there again this afternoon, froze to death it was so clod, the beach was dirty, couldnt believe it.

chris and farideh

I know, I've told him if they want you its going to cost them this time, I've got appointment at the other hospital, in Dec, so I will make sure I get to see the girls when I fly back to Adelaide, they tried to get rid me, but I wont be that easy to get rid of.
Hope all goes well with your OH jobs you'll never know they still might call you back, they are known to be very laid back here.

Wendy

Mmmm, Monday is meant to be fine and Wednesday is meant to be fine until the evening. Don't know if I trust the weather foecast

I think Monday is the best option though. Do you want to meet in the city? we could go for lunch somewhere?

chris and farideh

With kids we can take them to the museum they always do things for the kids or take them on those cycling boat on the river Torren, so much more to do in the city, zoo is another option, they always do special offer for school holidays.
Can we do around 11 or later, my kids are lazy they wont get up too early when its their holiday break.

ACE

Don't give up hope you never know what might happen.

A friend of mine who had just relocated to Mandurah from Queensland was in a similar position. Her husband works for a large mining company (computer systems/software) here in WA, he wasn't entirely happy and looked for and was offered a job back in Queensland. They were all set to move and the WA company said they didn't want to lose him. He made it clear that they would have to make it worth his while to stay so they extended his holidays and upped his salary by 45K