Thread: Payday...$300 for 7hrs work

Originally Posted by twr7cx

I have a bachelors degree in Business, another in Law, a graduate diploma in Teaching and Learning. The wage as a teacher is tiny compared to what I could be earning if I had continued with my law path. However, I actually enjoy the work, the hours are good, the holiday are good. Friends that I graduated with out earn me, but they work far far harder for it and deserve to have their higher wages. I on the other hand have a social life and also have other part time work which I too enjoy.

As for the wage rate for relief teachers. It's a cruisey gig, as it's just babysitting a class for a few hours, unlike a full time teacher that has to prepare the work and lessons, mark, and many other things that happen behind the scenes, but there's many negatives to it too. i.e. they have no pay during the school holidays, and there are many of these, no sick or leave benefits, etc. and little chance of career progression. For some this suits, for many it doesn't unless they have other employment with it.

Wow, a perfectly rational teacher, that's spot on

If you want more money, spend less or earn more, he'll if you wanna loose weight, eat less or exercise more, life generally is........that simple

Originally Posted by rovercare

.... if you wanna loose weight, eat less or exercise more, life generally is........that simple

Damn! I keep getting those two mixed up!

Originally Posted by rovercare

But that's your choice, sounds like another sob story of someone either, happy enough in their position, yet still wanting to whinge about others who sacrifice to earn more, or too lazy or not will to take a risk to change

To much travel?, move! Not enough money? Change jobs

I'm simply asking what it is that makes a open cut miner worth triple what i get for less hours and less demanding work..... as for the travel, I dont object for the most part, I like where i live, but i also cant afford to live where i work, even a basic 1brm flat can pull $350+ a week.... prices driven up by "investors" and the high demand for housing

as for changing jobs, i'm near the upper end of the scale for non trade qualified workers without going onto a mine site, and for the number of times i've been told to get an address in the SE corner or rockhampton/mackay, i'm damned if i'm going to relocate just to get a mine job 40-50km away from where i live now

and in answer to your suggestion to move...... not always so easy..... come and try living up here sometime

Originally Posted by Tombie

And lets just clarify a few things here shall we...

Mine Truck drivers get what they do because of:
- Potential Geographic location
- Shift work - This is where the real money comes from with night shifts and penalties
- Hours worked

1: you mean all I need to do is move 3 doors up the street and my income will triple?
2: up here there isnt that much more benefit doing nights
3: so my problem isnt that out of every 8 days I work 48 hours just like a miner on an even time roster, its that where a miner does it in 4x12 hour shifts before getting 4 days off in a row, I do it spaced out over more shifts and only get 1.5 days off?

Originally Posted by Sprint

I'm simply asking what it is that makes a open cut miner worth triple what i get for less hours and less demanding work..... as for the travel, I dont object for the most part, I like where i live, but i also cant afford to live where i work, even a basic 1brm flat can pull $350+ a week.... prices driven up by "investors" and the high demand for housing

as for changing jobs, i'm near the upper end of the scale for non trade qualified workers without going onto a mine site, and for the number of times i've been told to get an address in the SE corner or rockhampton/mackay, i'm damned if i'm going to relocate just to get a mine job 40-50km away from where i live now

and in answer to your suggestion to move...... not always so easy..... come and try living up here sometime


1: you mean all I need to do is move 3 doors up the street and my income will triple?
2: up here there isnt that much more benefit doing nights
3: so my problem isnt that out of every 8 days I work 48 hours just like a miner on an even time roster, its that where a miner does it in 4x12 hour shifts before getting 4 days off in a row, I do it spaced out over more shifts and only get 1.5 days off?

Why would I move there? I'd be moving away, either face the fact that your happy with your location/income or do something about it, it seems your just happy to gripe

A dump truck driver gets good money as they've done something about there occupation...... Not just whined because others get more

I wouldn't be a dump truck driver, it's very mentally tiring! Yes, that also means its hard work, a labour intensive job can be far less draining than a monogamous task like that

Originally Posted by rovercare

....can be far less draining than a monogamous task like that......

You're likening driving a dump truck to having only one wife??

Where's Ron. RON.....RON....RON!!

Originally Posted by rovercare

A dump truck driver gets good money as they've done something about there occupation...... Not just whined because others get more

I wouldn't be a dump truck driver, it's very mentally tiring! Yes, that also means its hard work, a labour intensive job can be far less draining than a monogamous task like that

I've driven dump trucks in quarry operations, it was one of the cruziest jobs I've ever had, so I'm speaking from experience when I say that in my opinion, they are grossly overpaid....

My gripe isnt purely that they get more, its that they get more with no justification for the hike in income, and that yes, I could be doing that job too, but geographical discrimination seems to be the order of the day....

As for whining, you should hear how many of the bastards that get hired in from suburbia whinge whine and crap on about living out in the sticks!

Originally Posted by Sprint

I've driven dump trucks in quarry operations, it was one of the cruziest jobs I've ever had, so I'm speaking from experience when I say that in my opinion, they are grossly overpaid....

My gripe isnt purely that they get more, its that they get more with no justification for the hike in income, and that yes, I could be doing that job too, but geographical discrimination seems to be the order of the day....

As for whining, you should hear how many of the bastards that get hired in from suburbia whinge whine and crap on about living out in the sticks!

You've made a huge contradiction right there! 1 reason alone they can get more cash is geographics, which you say you are discriminated against

Yea, 10 years in industrial environments, I know how much people can winge over nothing

Dump trucks in Quarry's, did that involve GPS monitoring, questions about loo breaks, why production has stopped, being monitored for meal break times etc?