Thinking of moving

[Dwayne OMember]

Good luck with whatever or wherever you decide to pursue Zoro.

Just be sure to do your homework on the work availability front as there have been some rather dramatic downturns across various industries the past year & a half, and things may or not be a prosperous as they once were :whistle:

[Kent DuncanMember]

I’m hearing you on that Eags, the offshore O&G industry is booming up here and in WA and is only going to get better. There’s at least 10 years solid work up here booked and being waited on getting done, not enough players to do the work. Not enough people to fill rigs either, lots of kiwis coming over to play.
Issue I have is at some stage I need to get back over East, the experience I have in this industry doesn’t account for much if anything on the east coast.
However, I’m a motor mechanic by trade with 14 years hydraulic/ pneumatic experience, I also have my cert4 in Project Management so I can fall back to either one of those, although I do HATE fixing cars…mugs game.

Just feel as though the time has come to stop living to work and begin working to live. I have spent so much time trying to get in front I have forgotten to live life and the last 10 years have just dissapeared. My daughter is now 6 and I need to make a move sooner rather than later, for both our sakes. Being stuck on rigs and vessels, missing out on a lot of her younger years its time to get out and do things for her now. I think she misses out on a lot of things up here being so isolated and I know her grand parents have missed out on a lot of her growing up too.

[Dwayne OMember]

Sounds like you are making the right choices for the right reasons (your family) mate and that`s the only thing that is right, so kudos to you for that

I am the reverse to you, just been made redundant for the second time in my carer, never been unemployed in my life, but now looking at a rather grim picture at nearly 48 :S
Kids are in mid to late teens and not keen to relocate, but who knows where I may have to drift if things don`t work out in the next few months,,,

As I said before mate, good luck whichever way you go

[Kent DuncanMember]

You’ve got 10 years on me Eags, where are you located?

[Dwayne OMember]

Newcastle area mate.
Have been always lucky enough to move from major project to project, Defence, Transport, Refit of Luxury Superyachts, Defence, Transport etc

Have worked on some great contracts with some fantastic and highly skilled people, many of them on multiple contracts across the area.
Just attended a Union Rally in Newcastle today to highlight the loss of Manufacturing jobs in the area and the country in general and met up with many of those same blokes again funnily enough :whistle:

As I said mate, good luck with your decision, but do your homework,, maybe three times over before making the move

[scott bockingMember]

Some people live where they work and others work where they live. If you have a true passion to live in a particular location it will all come together. Nobody can predict a safe spot, you just need to want it. I admire your priorities to make the change for your family. I made a leap of faith to the Coffs Coast 7 years ago and could not be happier.
Good luck with it mate.

STM

[Kent DuncanMember]

That’s good way of looking at it STM.
An issue I have with regards to work is always putting in 110% and trying to be the best, seems to always happen. I’m normally the first there and one of the last to leave, never have sick days ( I have over 660 Hrs sick leave) and just hate not being there. Doesn’t matter where I work, the same thing happens time and time again. Its great for the employers and if they’re looking after me I don’t mind putting in the Hrs, its effortless.
I can’t sit back and wait to be told what to do, its just not my bag. I feel guilty doing that sort of thing. Don’t get me wrong I hate having to work but unfortunately it must be done.

Guess it all stems from my old man, he worked at the same place for 36 years and would often come home and talk about a certain few people he liked to call ” clock watchers”. The ones that come and go right on the tick of the clock, take their breaks the same way. Instead of putting in the effort in order to gain the satisfaction of a job well done. The guys that are just there to kill time and get paid for it. What they don’t realise is that when they want something like time off to go here or go there its going to cost them A/L time as opposed to the person that puts in a hard day gets to take off early to pick his kids up, go to the dentist, doctor and not worry about his pay getting docked etc. The good guys get looked after, normally.

With the move I’m looking at taking, wherever that may be, I don’t want my life to revolve around work like what always ends up happening. I dont want to/ can’t take the piss and become a clock watcher either, just goes against every cell in my body to do that. I need to find the balance, for mine and my family’s sake and I think I’m going to struggle with that.

Think I need to win the lotto….… even then I’d probably still front up for work in case I missed out on something important.

This is the sort of sh!t that normally runs through my head when I’m riding, especially when your slabbing it for 800 odd klms. You know that sh!t you think about when your on your own inside your helmet floating down the highway…

[scott bockingMember]

With your strong work ethic you need to go out on your own and work for yourself. It feels a lot less like work when it is your own gig.

STM

[Kent DuncanMember]

I have done my own thing before, Hydraulic repairs and Hydraulic Hose manufacture.
It was making decent money but I always worried about where my next dollar was going to come from.
Once I sold that it was a HUGE weight off my shoulders and swore I’d never do that again.
Used to hate having to do paperwork every night after working all day or doing it on the weekends then BAS statements and every man and his dog wanting their cut of the takings at the end of every month. The more I made the more they wanted- Ins, workers comp, tax etc. Was a draining experience.

I could quite easily do a mowing gig though, funnily enough I like mowing. I have 5 acres up here and mow approx. 3 acres including fire breaks every two weeks in the wet season. Dry season, not so much.
As a kid I mowed approx. 6 acres and loved it, used to ride down the servo (12klm’s each way on push bike) just to get fuel for the mower so I could do it during my school holidays.. ridiculous, I know but its just something I liked doing…

Looking forward to this Ops manager position up here though, had a standard HR phone call from them the other day and have been short listed. If I get the role I’ll do it for a couple of years then head to the East, wherever that may be. Its a national company with branches all over the place. Its only $10K more than what I get now. However I might be able transfer within the company at a later date. I will then have that under my belt which should be more of a recognized skill as opposed to running/ recovering subsea infrastructure.

[Author]

Posts