I've gotta job

After a long time out of the workforce, I've got a 3 month contract at Century mine, in outback OZ, controlling Rotable/Exchange spares.

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Looks like an interesting place. One thing is a 304 kilometre (approx 200 mile) underground pipeline from the mine to the port (karumba).

Roster is 14 days on, 7 days off and 12 hour days. Gonna be a bit hard to get used to. Bazza

 

Congrats

I'll be starting my new job in 11 days.

 

Congrats on the job Baz, and I hope you adjust OK to the hours. Sounds like a tough schedule.

 

Congratulations on the new job Bazza.

You will get used to the schedule in about 3 months.

Good luck my friend.

Steve

 

Congrats on the new job.
You might get to like those hours once you get used to them.
Gal

 

Good Luck Baz

 

Congrats!!!! I know what it feels like to be out for awhile, then jump right back in!!!!

The only thing I can say...Get GOOD shoes/boots...if your feet are happy...the rest of your body will be happy!!!!

Roger

 

Good for you Bazza...I myself have some medical issues that keep me from full-time work...but I bust my a** to work when I feel well enough, and even some days when I feel like s**t. It`s good therapy for a grown man to be able to earn...good for the head-space eh?

 

Thanks guys for the best wishes. I have had contracts extend well beyond the initial period. One for 3 months went to 2 years, another went to 3 years. A 6 month's contract in West Africa went to 18 months. This is going to be a tough one, I feel.

Don't know what their out-of -working hours access to the Internet is. Maybe missing from MG for a while, until my 7 days off. Gotta get a digital camera. Looks like a hell of a place for photos. Huge open cut etc. Always wanted to visit Karumba (bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria), if I get the opportunity. Lived/worked, at the top of the Gulf for 15 years (Nhulunbuy, NT), never did get down to the bottom of the Gulf.
Start next Wednesday, 5 hour bus trip, than an aeroplane flight, to the "back of beyond".
It's gonna be very interesting, I reckon. Bazza

 

Re: I've gotta job--UPDATE

Back in Cairns, after 14 x 12 hour days straight. Limited after hours access to the Net at the mine. They frown on Internet access during working hours for other than official business so I kept away from MG and emails and things. Huge hole in the ground, open pit mining. 7 hour trip from the Mine to get back home. Just a quick heads up, for now. Gotta ring a few people, pay a few bills, etc.

Bazza

 

Cool deal on getting the new job. Bazza!

 

Woot!!

 

Thanks for the best wishes, folks.

Not sure how long I'll last out there. The main part of the job is to write procedures on handling Rotables/Repairables/Service Exchange and Remanufactured parts and identifying the relevant parts. I am not good at writing procedures so my next stint will bring the matter to a head, I reckon.

Looks like I may get another offer to go back to West Africa, to a mine I used to work in, before the rebel war closed it down, in 1995. That is my first preference, so have to wait and see. They are not too keen on employing ex-pats, as the locals are so much cheaper. Love that country and the people. My boss will be a family friend/co-worker/previous boss, for over 20 years, so I know what I am in for. Hope they've got after hours Internet access to MG. Gotta have my MG fix. That will be the first question I ask him.

Bazza

 

Congrats Bazza on your new job


Brandon

 

Congrats Bazza

sounds like fun. . .well for someone i'm sure

 

Back to the mine, next Tuesday. Another 14 days without access to MG. I'll try the after hours access to the 'Net in the common room, but don't know how that will go. Probably the other users will get upset if I try and hog 1 of the 2 PC's for a 2-3 hour session on MG. No sense of humour, some people. Bazza

 

Back on break, away from the mine for 6 days.
Eventful trip back. Huge storm hit our mining area. Roads flooded and closed. A light plane crashed on landing at our airport. Nose wheel collapsed. No one hurt thank goodness. Big crane sent to shift it crashed at work and crushed a 4WD. No one hurt again. Runway flooded and we had to wait for 2 hours. Our plane eventually flew in from it's base, 1.5 hours away. We arrived back in Townsville, then I had a 4.5 hour bus trip. Got home this morning at 2 am. Up at 5.30am to get onto MG. Guess I'm hooked. 14 day by 12 hours are tiring, but I have found $1.2 million dollares worth of Inventory errors in my 2 x two week stints, plus other stuff. Hope this will get me a permanent job there. Enough from me.

Glad to be back in civilization, and MG. Bazza

 

Congratz' on the job , im a student and im looking for one...bloody shelf stacking.

 

Thanks, you can still rise to top stacking shelves. No pun intended. Many have. Bazza

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Shouldn't have any problem this time of year Lapsed...just drop by your local Toys 'r' Us store on White Rose Way Sorted!