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Topic: Jobs in Australia
josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6270	Mon 08/13/12 12:48 AM Edited by josie68 on Mon 08/13/12 12:54 AM
Must be a country thang...because i've never heard of a drop bear either....sounds funky though :-) They are related to the Bunyip. Horrid things. And Torgo would indeed want one. He would love one, they are almost identical to a Koala, except they have fangs and eat you. this is one of the drop bear sites, they are quiet cute http://www.dropbearaware.com/ten_tips.html

motowndowntown Joined Wed 11/19/08 Posts: 21396	Mon 08/13/12 04:06 PM
Aren't Koalas known to get a little nasty at times too?

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Mon 08/13/12 04:10 PM
Hell, I'd go live Down Under. But I want a Kowala bear as a pet. I want a marsupial werewolf like in The Howling III. You can have a drop bear. Sweet!

Rawrr_Girl Joined Sun 10/04/09 Posts: 4431	Mon 08/13/12 11:44 PM
Your a great bloke Wux, You would fit right in. Are you sure you don't want to come down under. I really don't know how to answer that. I am totally up to here with North America and the unwritten puritanic sexual laws of the land on who can do it with whom. It's actually quite difficult to get into another country unless you have enough for their points-based system. If you're only looking to LIVE there, then it may take quite a few years to gain a suitable Visa. I prefer Australia to England. The whole lifestyle. England seems hectic for me. Don't get me wrong, any country can have it's downsides, but I have to do what's better for my sanity. . I would be nothing but respectful anyway if I moved there. .

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Tue 08/14/12 01:40 AM Edited by Kahurangi on Tue 08/14/12 01:41 AM
Aren't Koalas known to get a little nasty at times too? I imagine a koala can only bear so much before they get all Cujo on you. I snaffled that pun from the yowie btw

unsure Joined Wed 08/16/06 Posts: 4886	Tue 08/14/12 06:41 PM Edited by unsure on Tue 08/14/12 06:43 PM
LW...the only connection you have to Australia is your entire whanau have moved here...think about that. Unsure...Australian jobs = Australian $. Last time i looked it was on a par with your own, so N.Z $ doesn't even feature into the equation. The only thing kiwi chicks won't do, is take shite (most of us anyway)...y'all must've dished it out for them to react the way that you said they did. ;-) There was no y'all....I was the only American there with my Kiwi boyfriend. The men loved me and women hated me, what can I say? I was warned they don't like American women taken their men....my guy actually warned me about that. It doesn't matter now any ways...he is a kiwi and I am back in the states living our own lives.

unsure Joined Wed 08/16/06 Posts: 4886	Tue 08/14/12 06:50 PM
Your a great bloke Wux, You would fit right in. Are you sure you don't want to come down under. I really don't know how to answer that. I am totally up to here with North America and the unwritten puritanic sexual laws of the land on who can do it with whom. It's actually quite difficult to get into another country unless you have enough for their points-based system. If you're only looking to LIVE there, then it may take quite a few years to gain a suitable Visa. I prefer Australia to England. The whole lifestyle. England seems hectic for me. Don't get me wrong, any country can have it's downsides, but I have to do what's better for my sanity. . I would be nothing but respectful anyway if I moved there. . You are right...it is really hard to get into another country unless you do it on a work visa, but even then with all this crap going on, it would be hard. I know when I was going to move to NZ, I either had to have a lot of money per person moving there or I had to have a co-signer. A co-signer is someone who will take care of you in case you can't find a job and this way you can not sign up for aid. This is why we had plan to get married first but then I woke up and said what am I doing. I did not want to leave the states and he did not want to leave NZ...so we live our lives apart!

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Tue 08/14/12 07:16 PM Edited by Kahurangi on Tue 08/14/12 07:22 PM
LW...the only connection you have to Australia is your entire whanau have moved here...think about that. Unsure...Australian jobs = Australian $. Last time i looked it was on a par with your own, so N.Z $ doesn't even feature into the equation. The only thing kiwi chicks won't do, is take shite (most of us anyway)...y'all must've dished it out for them to react the way that you said they did. ;-) There was no y'all....I was the only American there with my Kiwi boyfriend. The men loved me and women hated me, what can I say? I was warned they don't like American women taken their men....my guy actually warned me about that. It doesn't matter now any ways...he is a kiwi and I am back in the states living our own lives. You were warned???...ppssshtt. I'm a kiwi woman and i don't hate you...heck...i don't even know you. I don't know what you did that upset the kiwi chicks (the very few that you probably know anyway)...but i find it laughable that it was something as ridiculous as simply being with a kiwi bloke...truly i do. The job opportunities are much better in Australia than New Zealand. and more Kiwis are making the move across the ditch because of it....fact.

Queene123 Joined Tue 06/26/07 Posts: 17056	Tue 08/14/12 08:22 PM
i had a friend that i knew from grade school that lived there she was a belly dancer... dont know good of money that was she also met her dead beat ex husband there

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Tue 08/14/12 10:12 PM
Australian JobSearch - http://jobsearch.gov.au/ This is the official Job search site from the Australian government.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sat 08/18/12 02:52 PM
Due to popular demand, I am not moving to NZ or Australia. You ladies can breathe easy again. You talked me successfully out of it. Well done. Erm... What if I travel there and don't work, and don't beg, and am not a burden on the system of the local country, but just live there, literally? How does that work? Also, most women who voice that they can't stand my sense of humour are from down there. Maybe other women equally can't stand it, but they don't voice it. Then again, there are a few who always express how much they like my jokes. It's feast or famine, it's a polarized world, when you look at it through the prism of my sense of humour.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sat 08/18/12 03:03 PM Edited by wux on Sat 08/18/12 03:05 PM
Hell, I'd go live Down Under. But I want a Kowala bear as a pet. They are so cute, but we dont have any up here, how about a croc or a snake They are both the same thing if you drop the r from the crocodile as you wrote it. And yes, they tend to be everybody's pets. They are so cute!! (Ewwww.... Kahurangi, and Loverwoman7, I just went down deep south on that one, didn't I. Therefore I need someone to hencewheretohereforthworthcomingly wash my mouth with soap.)

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Sat 08/18/12 05:23 PM Edited by Kahurangi on Sat 08/18/12 05:40 PM
Well that's the beauty of the forums innit? One has a voice if one is too shite terrified or ahem consider it good manners to keep their thoughts of speaking up, even though they would dearly love to. Australia & New Zealand don't have that muzzle problem. They pretty much say what they want, when they want, and to whomever they want. Of course the drawback of speaking ones mind is being able to back your shite up, because there will always be someone who will take offense to what you say and flex on you...or in your case Wux...blow a snot bubble and start swinging your purse around. Obviously not all Aussies & Kiwis are opinionated...just those that don't give a flying fark of the consequences of saying what they will. I'm sure Australia is devastated at the news of your decision not to move down under. Edit to say...but that's just my sense of humour ;-)

PacificStar48 Joined Tue 10/02/07 Posts: 13764	Sat 08/18/12 06:27 PM
I have moved all over the USA and if you have a nice attitude with people generally you can get along anywhere. Sometimes it takes a while to get people to warm up to a new person if they sound or look different. When I came to California people would follow me around to hear my accent. lol Now it is fadeing unless I visit back home. I would like to try a visit to either Australia or NZ because both look truely beautiful. If I thought I had skills that would be needed maybe work for a while. I do know when you go in a a single sometimes people are kind of territorial but I usually take my own Man with me. lol

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Sat 08/18/12 06:32 PM
hahaha...other womens men don't interest me in the slightest. And that's not just an Aussie or Kiwi thing....that's a female thing ;-)

PacificStar48 Joined Tue 10/02/07 Posts: 13764	Sat 08/18/12 06:45 PM
LOl that is the same way with me too. Thinking about it...I would tend to have a dude my age so we would probably be two old frumps and nobody notice. hahahahahahaha

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Sat 08/18/12 06:52 PM
Awww shux...old frumps are my fave kind of peeps. They usually have interesting stories of their 'been there and done that' lives to share. It's the cantankerous grumps that i tend to duck away from.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Sat 08/18/12 07:29 PM
"Look!" Says the cantenkerous old man, pointing over the left shoulder of Kahurangi, to behind her. "A duck!"

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Sun 08/19/12 01:09 AM
Yeah nah...that's just Daffy running the other way because he got wind of your penchant for dead animals. I distinctly heard him say that's dithpicable!

josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6270	Sun 08/19/12 05:53 AM
Due to popular demand, I am not moving to NZ or Australia. You ladies can breathe easy again. You talked me successfully out of it. Well done. Erm... What if I travel there and don't work, and don't beg, and am not a burden on the system of the local country, but just live there, literally? How does that work? Also, most women who voice that they can't stand my sense of humour are from down there. Maybe other women equally can't stand it, but they don't voice it. Then again, there are a few who always express how much they like my jokes. It's feast or famine, it's a polarized world, when you look at it through the prism of my sense of humour.