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I know ultimately it will come down to myself to make this decision but need some more educated opinions I think to try and make my decision. Basically I'm a 24 year old Irish university degree trained General nurse. I've just about a year of experience and my plan had always been learn to drive (pay off my car, which is hopefully just about another year) and then go to Australia for a working holiday visa where I could get a feel for nursing there and work agency or whatever (or that was the dream plan anyway) However the hospital I'm currently working for has now offered up funding to do post graduate diplomas and certificates in my area of nursing (respiratory). The courses would begin in sept 2017 (length six months to a year) and because the hospital are funding it I would then be obliged to work for the hospital for a year post completion. So that#s thrown a spanner in the works. I'm tempted because this is obviously a very big opportunity. But by the time I have completed it I would be probably just about too old for a WHV, so would have to rethink plans all together. Especially while the 457 visa is a bit up in the air. My question is really would these postgraduates stand by me in Australia and would if be easier to find a job and such. Or would it really make no difference. I don't have any intentions to specialise at the minute and would like to continue working in a general medical setting. I would possibly still get funding after I come back from Australia, if I come back at all. But it's unknown year to year if funding will be there or not for these courses. I know it comes down to my decision ultimately but, having some outsiders opinions may give me some further food for thought

Due to qualify in three weeks (whoo hoo) but planning on staying here for a year to gain some experience before leaving, so not for another year, thankyou!

Been off the site for a while but thought I'd pop in to check. Just to explain again, want to go to Aus for a year WHV, looking to register with AHPRA. But unsure of when to start the ball rolling. A while ago it was taking 8 months to get your reg with them. Is it still at the same length of time? There was a thread specifically for this but it has seemed to died since my last visit. Thanks lads

I can't help much as I'm only in the planning stage myself, but I've been looking at Air BnB as an alternative to renting a place. A lot of places seem to want to get into leases and if you're travelling it seems that might be difficult. Air BnB rents to people on nightly or monthly basis Mostly it's just rooms in their houses or apartments. But in a lot of cases I've looked at it's more a form of house sitting as the landlord seems to be away a lot with work or hardly ever home for whatever reason. Lots of nice places in Melbourne I've looked at online too Depends what you're looking for though I suppose

Or would something off Air BNB be better perhaps? Does anyone know if bills are included on the Air bnb prices? Things like 'wireless internet' are included in the 'amenities' section, so I would think so, but can't find anywhere where it says for sure

Boyfriend and I plan on going for a years WHV in a year or so, but looking into everything now to get all my bits together and have come across a snag. We're going over for a year, basically for a prolonged recce, with the view of liking it and I'd like to get a skilled independent PR visa. I'll be a qualified nurse by then with a year or two under my belt and from my research it seems hard and expensive but the best choice for us. However, for the year we're on our WHV, we'd like to have a look at some places as we travel [Melbourne, Brisbane, Bondi being the main three we'd aim for] with the view for perhaps the second half of the year settling down to work. But it's kind of hit me, it may be hard to get an apartment to settle down. Before this we won't be living together or anything, coming straight from living separately with our parents, we won't be permanent residents in the country. We won't have a reference from someone we've rented from before. Hopefully we'll have a good bit saved up by then, and will have a joint bank account for our adventure in Aus. So paying a deposit/bond shouldn't be a problem, and I'll have a job with a nursing agency hopefully, so wges should be decent. But will this make it difficult to attain a nice apartment to rent for a while? I've read on here in places such as WA it's illegal to rent to non-residents. Hoping for a good view on this or else it'll mess up the plan we have going :wacko:

That don't actually do much! My aunt flew from Brisbane to Dublin only a few weeks ago and booked with them for this service. She was flying alone with two small children and thought well I'll only rely on them for when I need to pee or something and they did nothing for her. She knew who they were. I think they make themselves known at the start of the flight or something. And she found both of them, both ways of her journey, would rush past her seat, avoiding eye contact. Said they seemed to just be an extra pair of hands for cabin crew, as they helped the crew at meal times etc. but never helped any parents on the flight anyway. May be better on other routes, but just warning, don't rely on them and book for that service alone!

I think any dog can be a dangerous dog, it's all down to how they are raised and controlled by their owners. I understand some dogs are on the 'dangerous dogs list' and badness would be more inherent in them. But I truly believe it's down to how people treat them in their early development stages, like humans. I know some staffys who are the most loving dogs I've ever met, and I've met some truly evil pomeranians Sorry to hear about your dog though, sending good vibes for a quick and easy recovery xx

More than likely, we tend to cover up the crazy with it :wink:

No seriously Fifi if it'd talk back we'd sit talking to it I dunno if it' strictly an Irish thing, when I holidayed in Australia I found most people to be quite friendly. But it could just be me also but many a times I've gotten talking to complete strangers in public. On the bus, in cafes. Old, young, whatever. We just like talking I suppose. There's a funny thing about how the Irish colonise country in such sneaky ways that the bottom line comes down to we just keep talking I will talk to anyone as long as they're not horrible to me

sure jesus we'd talk to the wall :laugh:

Thanks Jac, yeah I'm hoping to have 12 months before I go over, just depends on the jobs here. Many nurses from my class and the year above plan on emigrating even to the UK just for a job, really dire here. I would rather leave straight away, but want the experience because it opens more doors. But yeah I suppose I am. We're thinking of maybe travelling around for say first six months, then settling down [possibly melbourne possibly brisbane] for the remaining six months, then seeing where we go from there. Just don't want to have settled down somewhere where there's not a lot of work going and that has a too high cost of living if you get me

Anyone else have anything to add maybe? :cute:

This probably won't be for at least two years, unfortunately I'm just thinking way ahead in wanting to plan. I suppose that true about where the people are living. As a holiday Visa I was gonna try and get registered with an agency that's more national, which I think there's a few, and travel around a bit. Thanks anyway though

They won't tell you you're not allowed in till you get there. From what I remember anyway. My family went on a holiday there when my sister was only about five. Booked through a travel agent who sorted our visas. They put an 'o' [letter] on the visa where on her passport is was a '0' [number]. After about 40 minutes [probably not that long but I remember it being a while. They had to contact the travel agents] of being questioned we were allowed go. It was a nightmare. As long as you've double checked everything, that's all you can do, relax and enjoy (: