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Forum: Australia
Feb 11th 2008, 11:34 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

That is exactly the sort of attitude that I found and the attitude that I have been trying to explain people shouldn't have to put up with if they are truly 'Wanted Down Under' No amount of...
Forum: Australia
Feb 11th 2008, 11:23 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

But in my experience you were not expected just to do the lower job. You were expected to do extra work that was more to your experience and still only be paid for the lower. So all the stress but...
Forum: Australia
Feb 10th 2008, 10:42 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Just wanted to add to my post about being offered positions that are below your experience that many times we took jobs that were below our experience. We were desperate.

I want to also stress...
Forum: Australia
Feb 9th 2008, 7:03 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Put them into a position that is ten years below their experience? Seems a little drastic.

Now in regards to employing someone from the other side of the world. The distance in miles is far I...
Forum: Australia
Feb 9th 2008, 4:11 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Just watched the family with teenage boys wanting to go to Adelaide. Lovely family.

Just wanted to say that once again (as I keep on pointing out and was our experience in Australia) the job...
Forum: Australia
Feb 7th 2008, 2:38 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

I have no idea. I left a few months back.

Did Howard end up turning off the water to the agricultural areas to supply the urban demand? Have people actually woken up to the fact that washing...
Forum: Australia
Feb 7th 2008, 10:27 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Economically Australia needs to populate, environmentally it is struggling to cope with the population it has.
Forum: Australia
Feb 4th 2008, 7:56 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

But seem to be planning to have them! They can't depend on her working fulltime forever.

Also I will say it again what is everyone's obsession with them not having kids. Should all women who...
Forum: Australia
Feb 4th 2008, 9:35 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Noone is going to have a go at you for complaining about the style of the show! At least I should hope not.
One thing I hate about the show is the way they repeat everything over and over again...
Forum: Australia
Feb 2nd 2008, 9:01 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

:thumbdown: Let's hope you get more support and less personal criticism when you finally get to Australia and need support.
Forum: Australia
Feb 2nd 2008, 8:58 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

I feel every sympathy for them. If you watched all the program you would have seen that they were planning to have a family. This program never shows the full story and I could read between the...
Forum: Australia
Jan 29th 2008, 12:38 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

And going up the mines means less of a family life which is one of the reasons they moved out there. Even setting up on his own after all that hassle is too much when he had it good in the UK.

My...
Forum: Australia
Jan 29th 2008, 10:07 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

I thought that might have been the case. My first day of supply at a school came almost one year after arriving in Brisbane. However I couldn't take it as I had moved up to North Queensland a few...
Forum: Australia
Jan 28th 2008, 10:43 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

And when it takes anything from six months to a year (like in my case trying to find any teaching work in QLD) your equity vanishes pretty quickly.

I am interested though after watching your...
Forum: Australia
Jan 28th 2008, 5:23 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

From my experience moving back to Australia I would say the husband was very realistic. He realised that it wasn't worth it for him professionally and I agree completely. Now my husband and I have...
Forum: Australia
Jan 22nd 2008, 2:28 pm
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

Which is why I believe the whole skills shortage thing is pretty much a farce. If there was a skills shortage and British immigrants were so desperately 'wanted down under' there would be more...
Forum: Australia
Jan 22nd 2008, 11:22 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

My husband and I said that too. He needs to hire a manager and they need to move to that converted barn again.
We realise now that our foolhardy emigration to Australia should have been a change of...
Forum: Australia
Jan 22nd 2008, 11:16 am
Replies: 2,124
Views: 300,054
Posted By alicecat

Re: BBC - Wanted Down Under

I felt this couple were really reasonable. They had obviously been told, like lots of Brits are, that life is easier or more relaxed in Australia and I think they needed to go there to find out. I...
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