jack13

I am asking a serious question i require a serious answer please.

Do you need to have degrees in two subjects to be a primary school teacher? Or just a degree in one subject and a PGCE?

A couple of my friends do that and enjoy it. Think hairdressing would be more me though.

Yer well there's risks with everything. But think this is a more solid plan, at least its a career if nothing else. They actually state if you have the qualification you dont necessarily need experience but I might get some anyway, just to be on the safe side.

ha well hope so. Have done friends hair before and stuff and have always enjoyed doing it so maybe I might find I have a hidden talent! :smile:

Thank you, sounds like something I can really go for.

http://cricos.deewr.gov.au/Course/CourseDetails.aspx?CourseID=77857 Then do this one.

At best it gives me two years to meet a defacto lol!

http://cricos.deewr.gov.au/Course/CourseDetails.aspx?CourseID=77126 https://www.immi.gov.au/asri/occupations/h/hairdresser.htm I spoke about going into this as an option a few years ago and you all just pissed on my idea. But I think its worth a try. Plus hairdressing is a job you can do anywhere in the world not necessarily in Australia. I could live in any country and do it cash in hand as a mobile hairdresser ect. I have always had an interest in hair and wanted to do it when I was 16 but never did, i did the drama course instead which was a route to nowhere. I will go to oz on the student visa and do it this course is only 5 and a half grand GBP. So affordable, i was going to spend that coming back on a tourist visa anyway. Then I could do the hairdressing IV. I believe you can get state sponsorship in WA for this. And in other states I could look for 457 sponsors. I could nip over to nz for a year to do any work experience necessary. I think its worth a good shot. I know nothing is guarantee but it sounds as though If I stay in England and go down the degree route nothing is guaranteed, so I'd rather fail after two/three years in oz, than fail after two, three years here in England. Any helpful responses greatly appreciated.

Nice to see you are happy and getting on with your life. I would never leave Australia out of choice but we are all different and you have to do whats right for you. All the best.

No visa is guaranteed i'm afraid.

Answers to quotes of my quotes; I like Melbourne because you have a variation in weather. And it never snows. i cant deal with snow. It never egts to minus figures. Their winter isnt as bad as a Uk winter. OK in greece you can have an ok climate, maybe similar to melbourne but you have to put up with the different culture.

I dont drink a lot. Bet woodend is good for cheap beer.

No it dosen't. There isnt anywhere in Europe where its hot 20 degrees plus in winter?? Or there is no tropics, rainforest ect. You cannot live in a hot climate and live within the British language/ culture like Australia. I lived in greece for a long while too. I hate history and stuff, means nothing to me. I love that Australia has no history because I cant be bothered with that sort of thing anyway. Honestly I like travelling but if I got a visa, i'd never leave Australia again only for perhaps one week a year to sit on a beach in bali with other Australian's drinking beer. That said I might even not ever leave Victoria. Victoria has it all!

Cairns is cheap compared to the rest of Australia. Melbourne isn't too bad, perth is extortionate.

Yer it is all that. Europe is finished imo. Oz has a much better economy/ lifestyle/ weather and beaches. Things like being far away from europe are a plus for me. Whats so great about europe anyway??! Everyone's foreign and speaks another language to you and the weather is only a bit better you still cant escape our winter. Wheras in oz you can escape winter altogether.

Are you for real would rather be able o get to Sydney or Melbs with great ease. I don't really like any of europe.

Anything that keeps me away from the UK for long periods and earns me money to go to Australia.

Well thats highly constructive.

I don't see the problem, these kids are just doing a job. Jobs for unqualified backpackers are thin on the ground, its not easy to get a bar or waiting job if you don't have residency or a permanent visa. Not everyone is built to pick fruit or wants to., For those unqualified living in the city, aside from working in call centers, working doing charity sign ups is one of the few options available. Its a **** job but someones gotta do it. I did face to face sales for five years so although I know all the tricks and never give in I am always polite and courteous to these people.

Who wants a pastie when you can have Dim Sims! :wink:

This is about a friend, not me personally, someone I know. They met someone on a whv and then married them around 8 months into the visa, they have lived in Australia now for 4 years. They, the couple are no longer together, they are not divorced but broke up a year ago. However were living together as a married couple for two years. Will this person still get residency when they apply or not? What will happen? Purely out of curiosities sake?

I find it weird anyone would want to move back. i can see why WA is not to everyone's tastes. But after living in Melbourne I have found it hard to be happy and settled anywhere else.

your weird then...

I would love to meet you in England