Just watched "wanted down under". Today it was a floor fitter off to NZ for a better life. Worth a watch on Iplayer.
just watched it, he gets £9 an hour :shock: wouldn't bother only work metreage mate £90 a day not worth getting the kicker out, that's half a days work.
Totally agree! However surely his plan is to go and be an employee find his way then strike out on his own. What ever happened to the fella who went to Oz in one ofthe early series? He was meant to be earning 2k a week. Would love to have to have the balls to go!
Sometimes it isnt about the money but the experience.All the folks that do these programmes expect to "upsticks" with the same life that they now have already!.You have to remember why you are leaving this country in the first place.Australia has become an expensive place to live albeit it is growing day by day.A fiver a pint might put you off along with the weekly shopping trip more costly than the uk.I should know my eldest lives there but she loves the lifestyle,weather etc...
How can any1 fit carpet in a country that hot? Imagine pulling up the carpet and finding a huntsman spider running about
NZ isn't hot, it's has the same kind of climate and scenery as Wales, except the locals are a lot less chippy. And it's only the more northern states of Oz that are hot, Melbourne's climate is not much different than Kent. (That's what my relatives say, anyway)
They still do Carpet fitter and floor layers in Australia are earning A$3000 a week and if you want to work hard you can earn more . I work as the Queensland state manager for Dunlop Flooring ( Australia's Biggest underlay supplier. ) But I am from the uk , Hampshire , where I was a carpet fitter and work in retail in the uk and for a wholesale company as a rep . So know both industries. Not fitting a room full of carpet that has been sat in a cold storage shed at -4 all night
Really ? 3000$ a week. Thats 2 grand stirling ! There was a similar post on another forum, and it was saying something very different. I know a fitter over there, and don`t think its quite that. Maybe if your able to work 20 hours a day 7 days a week. Or fit 200 sq. m a day. It would be nice not to be fitting carpet at -4, but instead you sweat your b*lls off all day.
Each to their own, but I'd rather be too hot than too cold. Can you imagine waking up every morning to bright sunshine? And even when it's cloudy, it's still warm? Terrific!!!That's the life for me. I've had enough of being woken up at four on a february morning by the sound of gale-force winds and driving rain. And even when the weather is great, you've still got to put up with some patronising bint on the telly saying "....it'll be in the high sixties today, so don't forget the factor 80", as if I spent all my previous summers indoors. Or in Winter, it's 10 below and she says "....don't forget to wrap up warm....." ...cos cut-down jeans and a Huckleberry Finn t-shirt are my usual January clothing.
It'd be great to emigrate to oz, but not to fit carpets. The job can be hard enough here in summer when some ode gal has the fire on. So imagine fitting all year round sweating ya knackers off with some whining ozzie going on. NO TA Running a bar on Bondi Beach, then i might
1st thing that went thru my mind when I got to bondi beach was. Is this it??? Total let down, manly bay was 10times better
My mate was on the early programmes,not sure if it's the guy you saw,his name is Don,we are still in regular contact he is very busy as is his wife.They have just brought a new house with swimming pool,can't be doing to bad.even thought about if myself
I got two cousins out there too,the thing is it may be hot,but they do have air con in almost all houses,so it won't be like fitting here in summer
