Thread: Incomes What do you survive on

Originally Posted by OLR-067

someone tell me what's wrong with this place if a 20yo plumber is on 150k and a pensioner(for whatever reason) is on 9k a year.....to me, that just wrong....

Paul

That 150k a year is not easy money. 14hr days 6 day weeks for 3 weeks straight. Dirty and Danderous job.

Originally Posted by EchiDna

tradies are in short supply - it's a seller's market at the moment...

Perzackary!
10 yrs ago, I remember we (Army) PAID businesses to place our apprentices for short periods of time to gain exp. Don't need em, dont want em, their labour is not worth the effort, rather emply exp on similar wage etc etc.
Today, we place them to the business who 'gives us the best deal' in regards to trg and exp. We have businesses who send people around to pick our trainees up for the day!
Make hay whilst the sun shines coz as a tradie the wheel will turn again.
BTW my salary is freely avail on web if you look hard enough, so no secrets there BUT I admit I am a self professed profiteer on w/e!
Viva la tradie shortage!

Ralph

more dirty and dangerous than anyone will freely admit mate...
if you take it, you will earn it trust me...

Originally Posted by rovercare

Disabled how??

Don't mean to be rude, but a pension, dole, etc, should ONLY be enough money to survive, not live an embelished lifestyle....Nothing personal

I can see myself being abused here

I agree and disagree. There are many people who deserve to be on a pension and should get it and more with pride, they should not be made live like paupers for something that is outside their control. Then there are the bludgers that use every excuse under the sun not to work and are determine long time unemployed and usually easier for centrelink to put them on the pension. Makes the employment figures lok better because these people ar not considered to be activelly looking for work. These people should get nothing.
People who have worked their entire lives in low paying jobs should be assisted. I know lots that have worked harder than me in low paying jobs for 20-40 years and have only just scraped by. The sad thing is most of these people are probablly a lot better workers than half the tossers in the mining industry that earn $150k pa.

Originally Posted by EchiDna

more dirty and dangerous than anyone will freely admit mate...
if you take it, you will earn it trust me...

well its better than 60 hour weeks at $600 a week.

Originally Posted by shorty943

Well, I'm looking forward to the DVA pension rise next March, as promised by the Minister in Charge "just call me" Bruce Bilson.

The table at the bottom shows my new pay rate.

I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm considered 100% disabled.

Next March, my pension goes up to $347 per fortnight.
Makes me want to jump for joy. If I could jump.

I reckon that'd be about the same as most forum members budget for repairs.

Hope you're making lots of cash in the hand dollars, 'cos that isn't enough for anyone to live on.

It's a pretty sad reflection on society, it should be at least enough to fix the car on.

Cheers
Simon

Don't get me wrong disco steve...great that you can get that sort of dollars...might get the old man out of retirement..40 years must be worth a packet....but more importantly however I just find it a little insulting that a pensioner is worth so little in this economy....we seem to be well on our way to a US style system...

Originally Posted by OLR-067

Don't get me wrong disco steve...great that you can get that sort of dollars...might get the old man out of retirement..40 years must be worth a packet....but more importantly however I just find it a little insulting that a pensioner is worth so little in this economy....we seem to be well on our way to a US style system...

Never been one to deny others the fruits of their hard labour.


140,000 ex-service pensioners.
Volunteers to the defence of the nation.

When injured, the government "deems" that 25% of the "national weekly average male earnings" per fortnight, is sufficient for our needs.

I suppose we shouldn't complain, we could be dead.