Paul1Perth

There's a limit though K&L. I've seen a few marriages implode because of financial pressures and the stresses that brings, from thinking they could afford to have kids. A break up doesn't help anyone, least of all the kids.

I think there are more blokes that think like that than would admit it Naomi, especially to their wives.:wink: I also know a few who (in private) say "being married is good, but it's not as good as being single".:laugh: Once married everything is a compromise.

I don't know whether our lives have been better for having kids. It's one of those things you are never going to know. We've had good times and not so good times. We would certainly have been a lot better off and been able to do some tremendous things that you don't even contemplate once you have kids. I think I would have had just as happy a life without them and maybe more happy, who's to know. A friend of mines son has a drug problem and is in a home at the moment being treated. He's been taking drugs since he was 14, always been in trouble, caused a lot of grief to the family. The parents are no longer married, he's a young man of 30 now, doesn't have a job, still has a problem. neither parent know what to do with him, he absconded for a couple of days when no-one knew where he'd gone. It's not all sunshine and roses.

Never been any different has it QSS?

Most guys will never get this. The want and need thing is totally foreign to most guys.

See, typical womans answer.:wink:

No you aren't overlooking anything. Don't know why you've bothered working it out, it's too scary isn't it. I was never bothered about having kids but my wife got broody and really wanted one. For a quite life I though I would go along with it and really expected months of fun before she got pregnant.:wink: Didn't work out that way and she was pregnant the first month she came off the pill. Never trust a nurse.:wink: That was one of the things that led us to emigrate as it happened. We had always been used to going on a couple of holidays abroad in the summer. We had a timeshare in Portugal and used to go to Greece or somewhere for another couple of weeks. When we had the youngster and we had got a mortgage for the first time too it was the first time we couldn't afford a holiday abroad and the summer was crap. It really got us down. We were both working full time too. Eventually thought we may as well bite the bullet and emigrate to somewhere with a nice climate. Women don't listen when they want kids, reasoning goes out the window, it's no good pointing out the costs, the answer you will probably get is "everyone else manages". That's about the sum of it too, you struggle through somehow. We have two boys now, couldn't afford either of them.:wink:

You would get those rates on a help desk.

$1.2m for a two bedroom flat:eek:

I heard the guy from AHPRA say that there are bridging courses that are available and acceptable for someone wanting to get registered here. Would be an awful lot cheaper and less hassle than moving back to the UK for a while. If the courses are recommended and designed by AHPRA I would think that they would have a hard time turning down registration if you went that route.

Last few days there has been a lot of discussion on the radio following St John's revelation that they are shipping in a lot of Irish nurses, some of which might be stuck in the registration quagmire. I heard a guy from AHPRA being grilled last night, trying to justify the changes. I think all this has happened without the government minister for Health knowing much about it and he sounded pretty embarrassed when he was on a few days ago. He says they are going to sort it out and get AHPRA moving. Would be nice to think he's true to his word. Good sign that it's getting a bit of air time though.

But wherever he chooses ain't going to be Sydney with everything it's got going for it. He must have wanted to move away from London for some reason.

Mate, what are you after? $700 a day should be fine for a great lifestyle in Sydney. Just because you've been used to creaming it in London in the rat race, relax a bit and be prepared to take a bit less.

If you choose to follow twitterers advice rather than applying mate go for it. From your wifes quals and experience I would be looking at applying for a permanent residency visa. Don't even bother with the holiday one. There are people on twitter, facebook and all those social media sites that would argue black is white if they thought it was going to wind someone up. That's a lot of people's idea of fun these days.

You're most likely right with the age thing davlap. I know interviewers and employers are not supposed to choose based on things like age etc. but in the real world they do. They might be able to get a younger person, with more up to date skills at a lot cheaper price than a 50 year old with experience would expect. It's tough to take I know and I hope the job pans out for you.

Ocean Beach in Denmark is one of my favourite beaches. Great to learn to surf, waves break out a long way and don't dump like the beaches round Perth. You can have a long ride with sand underneath you once you learn to get up. Might be a bit big surf for small kids but you have to be careful with young kids and water wherever you go in Aus. Winters are a lot cooler and wetter than Perth but might be on a par or even better than Melbourne. I like both places for a couple of weeks get away but don't know whether I would choose to live there. I prefer being near Perth and Freo and still be near a really nice beach.

Sorry to hear about your lad davlap. Tough times with kids that age. Don't take it personal that he blames you for everything that is going wrong for him, a lot of teenagers do that. Hopefully he will grow up a bit in the next few years and he'll come round. Panel beating is a good job to have, better money in that than baking and better hours. As long as he sticks at it he should be fine. Good luck.

Didn't your wife like Sydney davlap? I would much prefer living there than Melbourne.

It's a developed country ironman and if you have proof of what you are saying you stand a very good chance of compensation. If it's just a hunch though you might be totally wrong. Usually it's so hard to find out why you didn't get the position. I was out of work 5 months when we first came, no explanations from anyone why I wasn't getting the job. You just have to keep trying.

I think the "local experience" argument is a bit overplayed. There are jobs where local experience can be important but the bigger companies with technical jobs tend to have the same selection criteria that you would find in the U.K. might even turn out that it's an expat that's interviewing you and it could be an advantage. Certainly happened to me. I went for an interview and the interviewer had been to the same place as me for an interview when we left uni. Turned out we had both been interviewed at a software company in London. Gave us something in common and I got the job. Judging by your quals and experience I think you will be fine. Good luck.

There's only one way I'd work in Karratha and that's if it was a well paid FIFO position where I could get back to Perth for some R&R. TerryDXB summed it up very well. I didn't like Birmingham when I was at Uni there but I prefer it to Karratha.

Sounds like a good idea to go for a WHV in your situation Dave. You sound like you've got some good skills under your belt, wouldn't call it experience yet till you've had a job for a while. If you have family in Bris and you could stay with them for a while you could have a bit of time to look round and then look for jobs. You might even get someone to sponsor you if you want to take the emigration thing further.

I would guess you may be right about the ethnicity. It's obvious your first language is not English by your writing and there is usually a fair amount of writing to do in an IT job, some of it technical. If you can't write good English that would be a drawback. It is an English speaking mainly Caucasian country after all. If I were to re-locate to India or Africa I might have the same problem finding a job there. Looks like you've managed to get contracts to see you through a couple of years so hopefully something will come up. Things are still a bit quite after Christmas.

A friend of mine at work has just resigned from our company for the second time. He lives in Canberra and Defence have had a freeze on recruitment for a long time. They have quite a few IT projects and have tried putting their own personnel in charge thinking it would save money. They must have realised that it's costing twice as much as the guys in charge might be good at running a squadron of pilots or something but they now very little about IT and dealing with sub-contractors. My friend tells me they have finally bit the bullet and started setting people on contract. He's got one paying $90 an hour for a year, probably be renewed after that. Too good to turn down. Forgot to mention, the first time he resigned was to take up a contract with Dept of Defence in Canberra and work were so desperate to get him back they said to let them know when that contract stopped, which it did about 6 months ago.