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A cheerer-upper (Public Board)

by ,ndo, No refunds or exchanges! Fullstop!, Friday, May 24, 2024, 19:27 (428 days ago)

What If We Started Tracking Politicians? | Utopia
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I'm starting a FIFO contract in Wagga Wagga tomorrow (Sunday). Ending uncertain but prob July/August.

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by JoFrance, Saturday, May 25, 2024, 18:10 (427 days ago) @ ,ndo

Ha ha, so true. Politicians everywhere are more than happy to take away our freedoms and privacy as long as it doesn't apply to them.

What kind of contract job are you starting?

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by ,ndo, No refunds or exchanges! Fullstop!, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 06:51 (423 days ago) @ JoFrance

It's sort of a transfer within the company which is large. Still driving agis but FIFO and better pay. Camp is ok so far. Been here since Sunday and settling into the routine.

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by ,ndo, No refunds or exchanges! Fullstop!, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 06:54 (423 days ago) @ ,ndo

Word has got out about my past (as a programmer, company owner etc) and they're a bit bemused about me now driving agis.

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I have it easy

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 16:10 (423 days ago) @ ,ndo
edited by Cornpop Sutton, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 20:10

I Googled "FIFO in Wagga Wagga", which you should realize to a US person sounds like utterly incomprehensible LOL cat talk, and it actually turned up jobs for drivers (I think.)

So it's a remote mining camp job where your room and board are provided and you can bank a lot. Sweet. There's no employment option like that in the continental US to my knowledge. The only things that come close are a job in the ND oil fields which has sky high cost of living.

As a retiree my only job is to be a professional homeowner (Attempt all repairs myself which I usually succeed with) and home chef. There's no employment options available to me that aren't either demeaning or unacceptably onerous.

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by JoFrance, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 18:42 (423 days ago) @ ,ndo

I googled FIFO too because I didn't know what it was. That sounds like a good way to make money for a short while if you don't mind the whole camp thing.

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All expenses paid

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 19:11 (423 days ago) @ JoFrance

Yeah, it is a camp from what I saw too. But free rent and free meals. You can bank a lot of dinero on that basis. The main downside is probably that it's a kind of grubby and isolated way to earn a living if you stay there.

Note to ,ndo - independent trucking in the US is mostly decimated due to the economy and rates have plummeted. Plus several major trucking firms have gone out of business in the last year.

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Camp with accommodation and food and theoretical internet

by ,ndo, No refunds or exchanges! Fullstop!, Saturday, June 01, 2024, 20:21 (420 days ago) @ Cornpop Sutton

Yes it is a camp with accommodation and food provided. And internet, not :)

I finally got my laptop connected to the camp wifi Saturday afternoon after having arrived Sunday. Tech Support was the most useless, knowledgeless bunch of fuckwits I have ever dealt with. Didn't even know how to reliably receive screenshots from me, and unable/unwilling to confirm reception or non-reception of screenshots even after the fourth go at sending them and specifically asking them to inform me in fifteen minutes' time if the screenshots had not arrived this time. So the fifth go failed but no word from them.

In the end, I solved the problem myself. Went into Wagga on the Saturday afternoon and bought some computer hardware.

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Camp with accommodation and food and theoretical internet

by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Saturday, June 01, 2024, 20:42 (420 days ago) @ ,ndo

^ Frustrating!

AU - USA idiom/placename time:

"Wagga (Wagga)" to my ear sounds like something you made up to take the piss.

I know, I saw that it is an actual municipality.

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