Thread: Employment Opportunities

Originally Posted by slug_burner

BBC,

Having done the bulk of the posting to introduce us to sites across the globe, thank you.

To the others with O/S working experience, thank you also. What a diverse group we have on this forum.

What a boring life we live, 5 days a week to work, the weekend jobs around the house and four weeks annual leave. Better do something with that leave, got a lot of catching up to do.

Slug

Doint knock it, there is always a price to pay even if you doint have a really bad day.
how many westys didn't see there kids grow up? or how many of the CT boys now hide in the bush. how many have worn out bodies or worse busted up bodies, or in my case try handing in a CV that says apprenticeship, argentina, Pakistan, china Thailand china. everyone thinks your a screaming blood thirsty nutter or just full of it because it was never on TV. Teeth problems Kidney problems no job no pension and on my 4th marriage.

Clean32

Clean32 is right. Each of us pay a price, whatever we do.

I've never been able to spend enough time with my kids and wife but, the time I do have with them is precious and I am always conscious of the time ticking away.

Given some of the long periods of time that I've had to sit and wonder about where I've come from, where I am, and where I'd like to be in the future I've often reflected on what formed me as a kid that left a bush town on the Far North Coast of NSW. Much of that I put down to my living close to some really virgin bush (one of Australia's largest patches of rainforest) and having free rein to walk and wander in it.

My parents were very used to me being in it from before my teens walking in the McPherson Ranges, the Lamington Plateau, and the Great Divide, and the nearby wilderness area of Washpool, one time up to 9 days just by myself, my dog and, sometimes my rifle. Try to think of how parents would be considered if a teenager were to do that today? I learnt very early how to navigate by map and compass, appreciate the terrain and how best to get through. My decisions were mine, in very remote, inaccessible locations and, I always got home.

Looking from the peak of Mt Barney, to the east over Mt Lindesay (sited on the NSW/Qld Border), with Mt Glennie and Levers Plateau further to the east.


The Pumpenbil Pinnacle sprouts out from the edge of the Tweed Range. Quite an airy feeling to stand on the end.


People were also significant. My father, a school principal, two Foresters from the local Forestry Commission...all role models, men I respected. Something I don't think so many kids of today have.

In many ways, my experience in the bush led onto my time in the Army and, my I think it most certainly contributed to me marching out of Kapooka as the Top Recruit for 4 Pl A Coy.

Last year, one of my Forester role models went through his photos and sent me some of myself from so many years ago.

1976 and 14 here, practising abseiling on some cliffs near home:








Talking 1976 - 1980 here mainly canyoning in either Coomera Crevice, or Lynchs Creek. I, with two other blokes, were the only people to have entered the Lynchs Creek Canyon. Have not yet heard of any others doing so:

Coomera first:






The photo above has us seated on the top of the shorter waterfall below. Looking above you can see the tourist lookout overlooking Coomera Crevice.



Lynchs Creek:

This my mate Barnesy descending last.


Ian setting up the last pitch.








My interest in being in the bush was multi. I loved the botany of the sub-tropics and from a young age, took great interest in the botanical makeup around me. Generally though, I really enjoyed the experience of individual responsibility and freedom. Something I think kids of today have difficulty in finding in shopping centres.

Originally Posted by Ferret

Some pictures look a little like scenes from 'Blood Diamond' only the people here seem to be a bit happier and healthier.

I head to South Africa in a couple of weeks (mining business also) but don't think I'm going to see anything like that.

The film 'Blood Diamond' was enacted in Mozambique, a place that I have much direct interest in. Yes, all in all, the people in Ghana live with poverty but, they are well fed and happy people.

Mining business? What type of mining?