Thread: The Good Things About Your Occupation

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

As a Prawn Fisherman, no 2 daysare usually the same, thes are a few pics of what we see.


The list of down sides is long. very long
Cheers Ean

Fortunately, I no longer deal with fishermen (I used to be Marine Manager with Telstra dealing with fishermen who bottom trawled over our international submarine cables - those trawl doors can really damage a cable.

I went out on this a couple of times (we ran it out of Sydney on patrol work):



Now I sit, by myself, in a little room and control trains, etc., in a signal box. The money is reasonable and I take no work home with me. The downside is that it's boring.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Fortunately, I no longer deal with fishermen (I used to be Marine Manager with Telstra dealing with fishermen who bottom trawled over our international submarine cables - those trawl doors can really damage a cable.

I went out on this a couple of times (we ran it out of Sydney on patrol work):



Now I sit, by myself, in a little room and control trains, etc., in a signal box. The money is reasonable and I take no work home with me. The downside is that it's boring.

Have never hook up on a submerine cable, but have been hooked on a plugged oil well and that is down right scary, 2 fully rigged nets about $7000 worth and 6hrs later the plugged well won, only added about 5 million grey hairs.
Cheers Ean

apprentice tec for landrover,

good points, i get a week off every month to fly to syd to do training in sydney( every thing is payed for)

dont go to tafe
get to play with/drive all the new modles months befor eny one gets to see them,
work with a great bunch of guys
down sides,
the paper work for sydney is crazy,

PAY PAY PAY,
the gov give the inployers heaps to take aprentices on but dont give enything to the people that actuly get payed nothing for 4 yrs,

all i see is landrovers, work on them, and then drive home in one, and then find 4 sitting at home

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Have never hook up on a submerine cable, but have been hooked on a plugged oil well and that is down right scary, 2 fully rigged nets about $7000 worth and 6hrs later the plugged well won, only added about 5 million grey hairs.
Cheers Ean

There aren't many international cables in your area.

Re hooking up gear, we had a policy of telling fisherman to drop their gear and we'd replace it at no cost to the fisherman (I wrote the documents). Of course, we needed information on location, etc. It didn't matter if they were fishing in a restricted zone. It might to Garycol!

We knew of several trawlers in other parts of the world which tried to haul a cable on board and the trawler capsized with the consequent loss of all on board. A shallow water (under 1000m depth) armoured analogue coaxial cable is extremely heavy. Imagine something 100mm in diameter over the wire armour.


Fibre optic cables are much lighter - but still heavy.

I'm a teacher and head of department.

I like the interaction, teaching kids how to make things and love it when they can do it really well, I like teaching HSC course and the awesome projects that come with it. I like growing, developing and leading the department in terms of working as a team to deliver skills knowledge and projects that excit the kids and having them done well. Likewise to develop the facilities to be all that they can be.

I love being the benchmark.

I have read the Documents you speak of, and it makes alot of sense, but believe it or not, its a very hard decision to cut your gear, as strange as that may sound, and I know when we hooked the oil cap, I reckon we could have quite easily winched ourselves into a very dangerous situation, we were in 90mtrs and very lucky it was millpond calm.
I rescued some guys in 1990 and they were in a liferaft for 2 days cause there boat had rolled, but had he cut he's gear off the boat would've still been afloat today..
Very sensible of the telco's to adopt the replacement policy as its amazing how much you'll try to save your gear.

Cheers Ean

Originally Posted by BBC

As we used to say in the Green...FTA...Fun,Travel, Adventure...LOL.

Travel, mixing with other cultures, no two days the same....for those who have not seen what I have done/am doing:

Employment Opportunities

The best thing about my job, is coming to work, logging onto AULRO and reading about YOUR job.

Closely followed by going home at 3.30 (I start at 7.30).

RETIREMENT....so I can go 4wd and fishing. Jim