Thread: Melbourne Life

Originally Posted by dickyjoe

Seymour from Yea by car and then trained into the city.

Wow, just, wow

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Originally Posted by SSmith

Wow, just, wow

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Works out at being about a 14 hour day for 8 hours at work.

I'm on a train right now. It's 32 minutes from Parkdale to Flinders. Live close to a station and it's quite manageable. You find things to do on the train....like forums!

What area of IT?

Hi Judo

I work in Systems Administration, mainly with Windows, VMware, storage,, but also done lots of other things as required. Many hats

I would have thought you'd find a job easy enough if you're willing to work in the city. I can also understand how you can't find a job outside of Melbourne or a major city (Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong) in that area of IT. Speaking of major cities, have you thought about something like Bendigo? Housing is WAY more affordable than Melbourne for a decent size place, living costs nothing like Melbourne and you could still be close to work and choose whether you live the city or more country life. You could be just out of town and be only 10-15 minute drive to work. You could reach out to some major IT employers there and only move if you find a role.

Otherwise, move to the Melbourne burbs, hit up a bunch of recruitment agencies and it should only be a matter of time.

Bendigo. Lovely place. North of the divide. You don't get Melbourne weather there.
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What a nice place. Look at that sky.

Shepp. is only a little over an hour from you. Any IT jobs there?

5 acres eh.... A little more than my suburban house in Melbourne!

I have no idea about Shepp. I suppose so, although it's about 1/3 the size of Bendigo. So probably at least 1/3 less IT jobs? I suspect there's a critical mass point too, which I think Bendigo have passed for something like IT jobs with places like Bendigo Bank, Bendigo telco and enough larger sized businesses to warrant some decent IT services.

Originally Posted by dickyjoe

So DC do you think IT work for Australians is going to dry up? With your 80% figure?

I honestly have no idea. All I know is when things get bad, the first people to go is IT .... no-one needs IT right

I'm not sure what your area of expertise is, but I think were still hiring programmers at the moment. Don't expect high salaries from this company though (the fact most of the hirings has been indians tells me there paying minimum wage).

I work in pathology IT as a programmer. Pathology **is** IT, without IT they'd shut down overnight. The lab software a lot of the labs in Australia was originally written in Ballarat decades ago... and it ever so slowly being replaced now (that's where the jobs have come from, the company I work for is slowly re-writing a modern pathology system). I work as a developer on the previous system, ie: C, python, perl, awk, ksh, etc....

Housing? We live 12minutes drive from the middle of ballarat (and train station)... about 10minutes from the ballarat technology center. Our very, very modest (ok,ok ... pretty ****ty) 3 bedroom brick veneer house on 4acres with undercover storage for about 15cars was $360K. there's a good 12 x 7 shed, 9 x 7 carport and a ****ty 6x6 garage (that I've lifted to fit caravan/etc) and a 10 x 6 garage I have 6 cars packed into.

seeya
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