Foetoid said:
MarkCDodd said: Notice how little the child care people get paid....Tradesmen tend to earn good wages from day 1 and although they might not match mine in the end, on overall I think they would have earned more.
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Frodo just said he gets $23 an hour as a childcare worker (which in my books in massive wages, i've never earnt more than $19 base rate) but you then say tradesman tend to earn good wages even tho i know that a fully trade qualified Mechanic who's just finished his apprenticship earns less than $16 an hour.

therusty1 said:The mining boom won't go on for ever, nor will the shortage of trades people. An investement in education is the best pay off over the long term. I'm 8 years out of uni (plus did a MBA part time) and am earning 2.5 times the average Australian wage. Brain over braun is the key!

Mudguts said: Who cares seriously

Skarteh said: Mudguts said: Who cares seriously

People whom it concerns? People looking to work in that field? Planning ones future is a serious business to some people.

Mudguts said:

Well Mywii is the wrong place to be looking for jobs if you ask me. But what I was getting at is that people put to much emphasis on pay and not enough on job satisifation and lifestyle. For example the people who tell you how much they can earn in the mines, but what they don't consider is that often you have to work 60 plus hour weeks away from your wife and kids, you don't get good professional development (in my field anyway), house prices in mining towns are more expensive and the majority of the young boys waste all the dose on boose because they have nothing better to do.

Personally I am happier to settle for a job which pays say 20-30K less in the city buying a house which will hold its value that does not rely on the mining boom and be able to work 8 to 5 each day, come house to my missus and live the city lifestyle. Each to there own I guess.

But by writing this in response, I guess I have just contradicted my "who cares seriously' quote, but hey s**t happens and I should get back to work.

me_is_fred said: i get paid money

gokuSS4 said: thi said: And how much does the CEO of BHP makes?

Did he go to Uni or did he take up a trade?

They would of had a trade to be working at bhp for starters, then work thier way up unless they knew "someone" then giving the opp to go uni while being paid..

unless ya not the son or daughter of the boss, ya have to work ya way up.

asked anyone who works in a large company, if i wanted a management job where i work, i have to wait till some one retired or dies it just the way of life.

Mudguts said: I think your onto something BlakKnight: Why can't waffles be a type of monetary system. Aristotle used iron sticks back in 100 BC and were suppose to be one of the most effective bartering tools ever used.

Mudguts said: It can be both, I swallowed a 10 cent coin when I was 5 (oh my poor poor mother)

Mudguts said: I also do not think so. But if i was in power I would try it just to screw with people.
I have this image in my head of an obese man scuffing down all the waffles in this wallet and having no money left

Mudguts said: Well you would have to go to the
AWM - Automatic Waffle Machine
WANK - Waffle Bank
And the illegal waffle making would be rampant - have to stamp the waffle with an authentic mark.

Mudguts said: Well you would have to go to the
AWM - Automatic Waffle Machine
WANK - Waffle Bank
And the illegal waffle making would be rampant - have to stamp the waffle with an authentic mark.

Mudguts said: Yeah have suspect individuals in dark alleys "hey Brotha you got some flour?'