Brooksie

Alright mate

just been offered job out there in jan, been reading through site seen lots of good and bad stuff, am in wishaw now so cant be any worse can it?!!
But still will be at ibrox on sat watching us hump inverness!!
Am looking for advice on best way to do the visa, employer can get me sorted out but said it may be better tax wise to go on working holiday?

theduke

Hello Hello

how you doin? I am the Vice President of the Rangers Supporters Club here in NZ, so you will need to join up, only $10 per year. We meet once a month for best of last months games and live games v shelic and any other games we want LIVE! at the Paddington Bar in Auckland and other cities have regularly meet ups.

PM me and let me know who you are going to work for and where and I will help you out as much as I can, with the little knowledge I have.

Andy

CarolineSwan

My OH will be so mad this is in aukland lol and we will be in hawera!!!

theduke

Their is one on wanganui, which is 30mins fast drive from NP, I think?

Fooferfish

Hey Jads,

I used to do all sorts of Trades, Roofing, tiling, carpentry etc etc and after 2 years working for others i decided to have a go at being self employed and started my own business doing Property Maintenance for rental firms, started with one now i have 3 , still not employed any extra help yet as not sure of future, i would rather be busy by myself then have not much much with 2 guys.

Also i recon where you live in NZ wil matter in next year or so , Southland IMO will be a boom area as they have always stood on their own 2 feet and they also need about 1700 workers, i am amazed at how many Brits always look to Auckland and NI, but down south island , less population more job prospects, no traffic problems etc, cheaper houses, if you are looking to get into repair work then pick somewhere with ageing house stock, mind you any where in NZ ha ha has shite house stock, even new builds are crap built.

If you can be as versatile as possible that will be a big plus, as most trades i know have blinkers on and only do their trade, not many will diverse and do another part of the work to get to their bit, but the slow down is happening and i'm sure there will be more people after my work soon enough, i try to keep a fair price and do a good job all the time, i also take bacon and egg pie to my clients once a month as a thankyou for the work, this has worked a treat and most NZers have not had this before, as most builders just want their money and go, i take time out to drop in to the clients and see how things are going, only cost's me $38 a month, not alot for a few $k's worth of work ay ?

Where ever you end up in NZ check out the competition or see whats missing from an area, offerening a one stop shop for people is a good thing as most dont want to deal with alll those different tradesmen, if you can do most or all of it yourself, you'll be laughing.

If you fancy living in Dunedin, we would make an awsome team, and we could take the rest of the work thats out there, that i cant get on my own !!

Good luck with it all.

Nige, Dunners since May 05

brussels_sprout

the Kiwi unemployment rate has SHOT up to, erm, 3%, still second lowest in the industrial world !!! Times are hard ! House prices coming down now, interest rates dropping, if you can find a good job, it is a bl**dy good time to arrive, i would say, AND it's nearly summer too ! Things WILL get worse, of course, but, now is a good time to arrive

sonandbill

we are in tauranga on the north island. My hubby bill is a joiner with many years experience. He works for a man who gets him work but does his own books. he has periods of no work and says that its harder in many ways here as they have to do a lot of the lifting etc that opther people would do in the uk. The benefits are the weather although when its hot its too hot to work. The pay is no where near as good as the uk. Sorry to be negative but just telling the truth.We are going home as soon as we sell our flat.

jads

Hello Nige

Sounds like you have had a good start in NZ, are you still thinking of moving away from Dunners. When you say that Southland will need extra workers, does that include Christchurch. Christchhurch seems a good place to settle to me, but the decision and arrangements just go on and on and on!!
Are you still busy at work at the moment, have you noticed a slowdown?

Cheers Jads

southerner

I've heard that Christchurch building activity has slowed down immensely (it was really booming for a number of years).

Southland is a province based around the small city of Invercargill at the very south of the South Island. It is basically a agricultural economy, although there is some industry too. Much of the building activity is related to farm conversions (from sheep/beef to dairy farms) and to upgrading of dairy factories, but there is also quite a bit of onshore and offshore oil/gas/coal exploration going on at the moment which may or may not translate into building type work.

Also one of the hottest property markets over the last 25 years has been Queenstown which is about 2 hours drive from Invercargill, so strategically it might be a good place to be based. Queenstown building has also slowed down, but over the medium term there is likely to be plenty of work there still.

brussels_sprout

NZ Unemployment rate up to 4.2 % , still one of the lowest in the world !

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=10541456

Hokey-pokey

7 staff about to be made redundant from local law firm, due to drop in property market . 3 solicitors and 4 secretaries. Very sad. Remaining staff very worried that this is just " round one. "

Brooksie

Hi Andy

Cheers for the info, good to know theres a friendly bar to catch up on the Gers!

Enjoyed the inverness dooing hope you managed to catch it!

My mate rick is over in Auckland just now so i will pass on the details of the bar, though im sure he has sniffed it out himself by now.

Am going to work for a telecomms firm over there, they are pretty busy with varous contracts.

Have since spoke with them again and am going to get my visa through them which will save me the hassle plus a few dollars.

Was going to PM you with more details but just started on site so dont have enough posts yet!

Anyway thanks for getting in touch and will hopefull speak again before im out there. got a provisional start date of 12th jan.

Cheers

Kerr

Brooksie

Hi Andy

Been out in Auckland for a month now, loving it so far.

When do you next meet to watch the football highlights and will you be watching the old firm next week, live or replayed?

Have dropped by the paddington a couple of times but only seems to have cricket on!!
Have tried some p2p brodcasts on internet but am on woosh and connection cant seem to handle it, spends most of time buffering.

Would be much appreciated if you could let me know about the games, am dying to catch the old firm.

Cheers

Kerr

theduke

Hey mate

Game is on next Monday morning at the Paddington kick-off 1:30am, be there or be square!

Here is our website: http://www.kiwitrueblues.webs.com/


Any questions please ask, let me know your email and I can get you on the mailing list.

Cheers
Andy

harrogate girl

The building trade is not as good House Builders have a down turn, some have even gone bust but it is only a few
Some of the house builders built quite a few spec homes only to find what they built them for is what they are looking to sell for:curse: and I have to say we built and are unable to sell looks like we may have to keep renting.
Some of the builders this week are now looking to the Maintenance side of the spectrum but my Husband works with the vise president of the master builders in ChCh, and he said NZ is still looking good at this point in time and some new estate have just not been started put on hold.
Lin