Ang-Lec

Hi everyone
Just joined the sight today.We will be arriving up in cairns end of August and will be looking to start the licencing process.Hope to get the ARTC done before to send to ozy mates address.I assume I can do cpr & health and safty in Cairns?....Do you have fly to Brisbane to do the wiring course as it seems the tafe is always full! Also how easy is it to get work on prov license?Most of my work is domestic and commercial...not sure about going down a mine!!..did many of you work in other jobs whilst waiting for license to come thru or did u just go fishing!
Any help would be great

Ang

hitchcock71

sorry cant help

but just wanted to welcome you to the be site


hitchcock

steve`o

you can do the course via correspondance with
http://www.qet.edu.au/

regards steve

ps welcome to the site

stu:0

Hi mate, its your lucky day, im a spark and living in Cairns. Only been here 4 weeks. I got a job out here from getting friendly with a guy on this website and now i work with him. There is a lot of work out here mate. Im finding it no problem at all, standards a alot less than the uk.
First thing i would do mate is get your artc done. Iv not even started my licence process yet and im working so that answers that question for you.
Give me a shout if you want anymore help/ advice. Send me a private message.

Stu

Ang-Lec

cheers Steve for the link

youngy73

correspondance is the only way to go from cairns. the tafe in cairns is shite. one guy called alan robertson is a tool. it just so hapopens hes the guy in charge. he told me to go and learn the regs and come back in 6 months and do the capstone test as he was very busy. thats all well and good but there is no support from the tafe system up here. mate of mine got told the same thing as me and then went back in 6 months. he failed one question on the test on motors and has to do a course for 6 weeks then do the exam again. thats every morning for 6 weeks. hes nearly had to jack his job in to do it as hes running a unit complex site so needs to be there all day everyday at the moment. hes now starting at 5.30 then shoots off to college at 8.30 till 12.00 then back to work until 5.30. its a joke. i did the correspondance course and the guy who organised it for me was very good although ive read a few bad things about him on here ( alex josephs).

youngy73

just had a look at the link. its different to the course i did. i think the way i did it looks easier. less involved anyway. mine was organised through yeronga tafe and i did the 39093 course through the open learning institute. i put a post on about it a couple of months ago. im off camping now so will hunt for it when i get back.

Ang-Lec

cheers mate hope to speak to you soon
Ang