Work Around Coffs in April & Hint & Tips on Working Around Australia

Hi Guys,

Hope you all had a good Christmas and 2014 has kicked off with a good start!!

My husband and myself are packing up the house at the beginning of April to start out travelling in a camper trailer around Australia. The first part will be heading up the east coast to Cape York from Lake Macquarie. We are looking to be around the Coffs Harbor region during the Easter Holidays and staying put until the main holiday buzz has gone (we’ve been caught out before with driving around for hours to find a spot to camp during the holidays). As were a looking to stay put for a few weeks I thought it may also be a good opportunity to find some work in the area to keep the old bank balance topped up. Which leads me onto the main question - Does anyone have any recommendation for areas we should head for where we will be more likely to find work in that region? We don’t have any trade experience so to speak (I’ve been bound to a desk most my life and my hubby is a gemologist & jewellery valuer by trade), but were are both very hands on and certainly not afraid of mucking in and getting any job done. The Ideal situation would be if we could get a paid job with the ability to camp onsite somewhere. We have never really been to the Coffs area so any recommendations on areas to try would be helpful. Or does anyone have any helpful hints to find work while travelling around? Sadly we did not win the lotto last night and will need to work here and there as we go to keep fuel in the tank…

As always I have read many previous threads before writing this post (I’m not a lazy seeker for knowledge), but any further advice, sharing of experiences and wisdom would be very much appreciated.