HND Business & Finance.
IT Business Analyst in Aus – salary in line with what you’d find on Seek.com.au

Hey Jedi, are you looking overseas for contract roles?
I’m sure you are but there’s likely some short term stuff in Dubai etc (seems there always is).
If you’re a trade person (i.e. can use a saw, screwdriver, etc) then check out Aus, at the moment the crunch hasn’t hit too hard, but it will – but hey, get a working holiday visa for a year, pop over (if you can afford it) and start going for a trade role.
And as for getting over here, well, personally I’d be looking for something courier esq.
Of course this is all pipe-dreams, but then if you’re thinking about the opportunities you’ll not miss them when they come, and I’m sure they will!

Good luck!

I’ve had the dubious pleasure of supporting someone in thier appeal (sit in and be a witness).
Turned out that the fellow had a point, so it was reversed.
Thing was, they then re-deployed him to a lower salary position – or would have if he hadn’t walked out having made his point.
So, yeah, appeal, expect it to be a tough time though. And consider if you want to work there (if there are alternatives).
Good luck!

In Aus – Sunshine Coast. Have been here a little over two years.
Riding: Good around Tewantin woods (Noosa) the rest of the coast is mostly fairly spread out and a bit rutted from motorbikes.
Weather is mad – Summer is too hot & wet. Winter is good, so riding in the same time of year as you lot (not the posters here I suppose).
It’s a good place to live, but have to commute to Brisbane by train each day and that’s no fun (1.5 hours each way). Worth it for getting home to a fantastic queenslander house.

Doesn’t look like much, but indicative of trails – some single track (on the left) and a lot of double(ish) as on the right.

Hi Expat. I did try and change my nick (not very hard I suppose).
I’ll email the admin and see if I can get it changed.

I’m thinking: ex-ex-pat, how’s that?

Or am I missing the point.

Oh, and now in Aus, which strangely doesn’t seem to have thorns wot like the UK has.

Spiders, snakes, scorpions, sharks*, jelly fish*, bees, hornets, killer rabbits, dingos, crocodiles, more spiders, Yes. Thorns, No.

Cheers
AndyC

*Probably not a ride issue.

Ok, so I got fecked off with punctures after the local farmer buzzed a blackthorn hedge along one key connection trail.
So, not wanting the above, I fitted inner tubes that had goop in them – as purchased on CRC.
And, apart from one outage where I had the mofo thorn from hell that looked like I’d dropped onto a rhino they’ve been ace.
And in that event I just did the old fashioned tube change to a ‘normal’ one until could get home and put another goopy one back in.
I was regularly pulling thorns out post blackthorn run…

My 200sx had a recirculating dump valve. Even under hard driving it didn’t make a sound.
Until I fecked around with the engine, more boost, race air filter and stainless steel exhaust (not chav diameter I might add).
After all that, if pushed it would twitter somewhat between the gears but it wasn’t quite the loud ‘pisssshhhhh’ that chav tubos have.

Best I’ve ever heard was a CEO at an IT company that took his evo VI extreeme and made it into a full spec hill climb car. To quote him “it’s undriveable on the road” but that was essentially as it was tuned out to the max – sounded like a rally car with the banging and the popping. Best thing was that it monstered another MD’s 355 making it look a bit shiat really. Ah,the happy days of pre dot.com bubble bursting…
They’re all in volvos now.

For the fans – get the boxed set of Tintin movies:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Tintin-75th-Anniversary/dp/B0001Z5YW8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232076642&sr=1-1

At that price you can’t fail to get them – they’re ace, and what’s more they’re pretty true to the English versions of the books too, same artistry etc…

[/PSA]

Pop down your local pet shop (not pet shop shop of course) and get a budgie. Tell them that in the new world everything has had to be reduced – including the parrot.

Can they prove that the parrot was in fact alive at the time of the dog’s intervention? Might be a plausible question once you’ve had a read of this:

http://www.parrots.com/birdsale.htm

Good luck.

Is it wrong that I’ve loaded that fist image into photo editing software and have been upping the brightness & contrast?

Agree on last pic comments.

"…and 48/16 is very hard, but it accidently gave me the right chain length to not need a tensioner"

That’ll be because you’ll be pushing it everywhere.

*waves*

Nearly home time @4:42pm here…

Not sure what our electric bill is, but I know it’s high. I know this as during the winter with the heaters on it wasn’t possible to turn the kettle on as it blew the trip switch – essentially we were maxing out our electric I think…

Someone thinks it’s a great idea to build houses on stilts, have gaps in the floors and walls made of pressed cardboard – without a central heating system of any kind.
And that’s in a climate that touched zero deg.c during the winter*

[/aus living]

* I know that’s not cold, but when your house has the heat retaining characteristics of an umbrella then it gets a bit silly.

Ah, there’s two of us!

But I have more dash!

;o)

Should liven up trolling nicely on my part too!

IT Business Analyst for a global travel company based in Australia.
Funny thing – being in Aus no one thinks that the credit crunch will hit, but being in tourism and there being a crunch everywhere else – I’m making myself useful.

Two kids means that the bikes are just garage pornography at the moment.