Working abroad

[JD89]

No idea what I'm looking at on that website, I have no clue where to start.

 

[JD89]

Also I been looking at working offshore, I've heard it's solid to get work offshore, my boss infact has worked onshore and he even said it was difficult for other lads to get in.

I'm not sure if it's worth anything but i have two trades, welding and plumbing.

I just want to get out there and start earning.

 

[Radioman]

Generally speaking, if you have a needed trade you can find work anywhere it's needed providing you can get a work visa, which is not so straight forward. For example if you are UK Gas Safe or a qualified Sparks you can get work in Australia but will need a sponsor, satisfy immigration and then re take your qualification. Don't ever be tempted to try and work abroad without a work visa, when you get caught you will never be allowed back in. Just like the UK unskilled immigrants get to do the jobs no one else wants and for less money than the locals would work for. Take a look at South Africa, Nigeria, Argentina. For example if you are qualified welder then look at the ship building industry.

 

[Millsy 82]

I don't mind the hard life, I'm used to it lol

It's only going to be until I've saved enough to have a decent deposit on a house.. I'll also use it to set me up when I'm back home... It'll be nice to get away for a while. Just need to know what to do in order to get work in these mines (unless something better comes along)

I doubt that you will be able to abroad and earn enough to put a deposit down on a house in this country. Most places you may work out slightly better off in that country but then if you convert the currency back to £ would that make you enough?

So if you go to oz and want to come back with a 20k deposit you'd need to save 40k dollars. A quick google of average plumbers wages shows 60-65k dollars and you'd need to live and pay taxes so I can't see it being done any quicker than in this country.

Don't get me wrong though I wish I'd done years ago not for the money but just for the experience but I'd never go oz! Stuff that they have spiders that hide under the toilet seat waiting for you!

 

[JD89]

Seems that being a plumber wherever it may be I won't be better off than I am in the UK.. As for the mining industry in Oz it's on the decline as the booms over. In fact people from the UK are moving back over here because it's so bad..

I'm not too bothered about the experience as such, I'd rather get my stuff together and get a home while I'm young. If I want a nice experience then I'll just plan it out with work to supplement it.

How does a sponsor work? Is that an employer who's willing to take you on soon as you get to Oz or wherever it may be?

 

[Radioman]

Complete the immigration criteria assessment on this web site to see if you stand a chance
http://www.workpermit.com/australia/appraisal_form.htm

As an indication, my cousin wanted to sell up his very successful architect practice in the U.K. And retire to the Gold Coast to be near his daughter and extended family, he was only 60, his wife was 55. He didn't want to work and they both had perfect health, no convictions of any kind, and close to £2,000,000 cash in the bank, plus private and state pensions to come. They had to put half their money into the Australian government bond for a minimum of 12 months, be subjected to extensive medical examination by the state, and where granted a 5 year visa on the provision that in that time they did not become a burden on the state medically or financially, did not get convicted of a crime and where prepared to apply for citizenship, took out private medical insurance. Also I believe that they could not own a property for the first 12 months. This was 10 years ago, things may be different now, they are still there, they love it but say it was tough for the first 12 months.

 

[Radioman]

http://www.workpermit.com/australia/skills_shortage_list.htm

 

[GQuigley67]

Spent a year in oz, didn't do any plumbing work mostly labouring and couldn't save anything as the cost of living was so high. I make more money here than I did in oz, I didn't fancy the retraining to get into plumbing, and couldn't get on the mines.

 

[Dan Brown]

All some really helpful information given from the responding people of this post and i appreciate this myself as i plan to work abroad in a few years, it maybe be hard but im sure i will be able to pull it off and i hope all goes well for you JD89