working your way around OZ

Mate I've got no skills whatsoever so with your fitter and turner and earth moving experience, you'll pick up jobs everywhere. Have to fight em off with a stick up North.

Every time I've been up North I've had to knock back work. Last one was a vehicle workshop, fella offered me a job, I told him I wasn't a mechanic, he said all he wanted was someone who could tighten up nuts and bolts without breaking them off?

Find how who are the labour hire groups who find crews for shut downs and get on their lists. You should have no problems finding work in the less hospitable mining towns. Getoutmore knows more about this and the accommodation situation than i do.

Any major tourist town in northern and central Australia rely on the travellers to work in the hospitality and cleaning areas.

I think you will have no worries with work if you are both prepared to do anything.

Motherhen

Gday,
As long as you dont mind what you do, youll have no trouble getting work aroung Alice

Cheers

Mate,
Im a Fitter and a Refrig Mech(2 trades). Were currently travelling around oz for a few years. No dramas getting work if you want it. Servos all need people to pump fuel and the local labour hire joints are always good. As getoutmore is saying at places like newman you can only stay in the van park for 2 weeks.

Matt

Work in the Pilbara is still going gangbusters - and its on the rise. The problem, as mentioned above is accommodation. And there is no quick fix on the horizon.
I was checking into on the of the better C/Van Parks in Port Headland 2 weeks ago and they had a waiting list of 12months to get a permanent site. Although - they were a tourist park @$45per night. Other parks in the town might have a shorter list.

Go for it. You can camp on my lawn for $45 a night. Ill even give you free beer.

Disclaimer: Free beer not to exceed $45 per night. Which - at Pilbara prices is around 7 stubbies of Emu Export (Yummo)

Hi carlj

We have been on the road for almost 12mths now, we travel for a few months, then work a few months (we are doing this with 3 kids!!) Matt is a mechanic and hasn't had issues getting work and I am a massage therapist (I have my own table and work from my van).

The only thing we have issues with is location and dollars - ie we stopped in Darwin to work, Matt got a job, however the CP fee's where over $300 per week no chance of saving any money so he turned the work down.

You shouldn't have any issues getting work.

Cheers
Caz

Hi carlj

With regards to a van thats suitable, I guess it just depends on what you want in a van - as we are going to be on the road (with 3 kids) for a long period of time the things that where important to us a family where:

Toilet/shower
3 bunks as well as a dble bed
heaps of cupboard space
separate fridge/freezer
full cook top, oven and griller
we are also set up to free camp as when on the road its heaps cheaper.

We decided against a pop top or expanda as we didn't want to have to set up the pop top or sides all the time. I think its important to have an air cond (I believe air comand to be the best - built in Oz for Ozzie conditions) - we are currently working in Kuna WA and its 39 - 40 deg most days and humid as hell.

Hope that helps

Cheers
Caz