Thread: Crossroads of life...

your 23 you old fart


There are better jobs than ALCOA and if you don't go now you'll be there when you 50 thinking what if.............................



Besides they don't pay that much.

tassie is brilliant great people pack up and go

Go for it , otherwise in 2-3 years time you will be saying to yourself " I wish I had done that " Assuming that your partner is in agreeance ?? Another option would be transfer within Alcoa ??

Kermie

Always best to look back and say: I gave it a crack

The alternative?: I wish I had.....

The timing will never get better.

If you don't mind the humidity and like the ocean then anywhere north from Gladstone to Cairns, and Darwin. Real estate's a killer everywhere these days but they're crying our for people up north and it's beautiful country.

Re being 23 and making decisions? I built my first house when I was 22 and while I loved it and don't regret it, it did act like a millstone around my neck and prevented me doing things I think I should have done.

So my advice is move somewhere you like, get a job, buy a house. If you want to move again, rent the house out but don't sell. It's always an asset no matter where and keeps you in the RE market.

Get around, see the country, experience different places before you settle down family-wise.

Cheers.

PS I'm 45 on the outside, late 20s inside.

House prices are pretty much similar anywhere in mainland Australia for housing, we were looking at real estate in Rockhampton Qld, prices comparable for Perth.

So any decision on moving shouldn't be made on the basis of house price.

If your bored with Perth, then Tasmania will send you nuts as its quieter and slower than WA

So if you want to move somewhere, pick where you want to live and what you think you want to enjoy by being there

Don't bother moving your stuff sell everything and buy when you arrive the cost of moving household stuff across the country expensive unless of course someone like your new employer is paying for it.

23 never old enough to change jobs careers trades but you have to accept for 3 years doing trade apprenticeship your going to drop rate of pay even as adult to about 70% of trade rate.

The other factor is what your partner going to do for a job career when you get there

Mate go for it. I left my trade at 29 and moved from NSW to Gove/ Nhulunbuy NT (top right hand corner of NT) took the wife and three kids.
Best thing we ever did and have never looked back. Life is for living you only get one go at it.