Read the optimal employment article and I'm wondering if this is still current. The mining boom over here has resulted in a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of labouring jobs that often have six figure salary and provided living conditions if you're willing to live in some of the more remote areas. I honestly have no idea what the conditions are around visas and background or what the competition is like, but it's this formula + more stable work and higher income for a comparable skill range.
Lots of fact checking required on what I'm saying here but I know there's other import labour around a lot of the mining areas right now, it may be a good vector?
Edit for additional data points: I'm currently working in the Queensland mining industry. The role adds about +25K income for my skill set (although for basic labour and retail the gains are closer to +50K) and the living costs are between 10-20K lower than in the major cities. The work / life balance in terms of hours is slightly worse, but the commute is 10 mins from my door to work. Culture and "liveability" of the city is quite low compared to metros. As a result of this latter point though I've had the time and disposable income to pursue several hobbies, and further education, without too much of a strain.
I honestly have no idea what the conditions are around visas
For the Working Holiday Visa
...Basic requirements
To be eligible, applicants need to meet the following requirements:
hold a passport issued by an eligible country or region be aged 18-30 (inclusive) at the time of applying not be accompanied by dependent children at any time during their stay in Australia meet health, character and financial requirements not have previously entered Australia on a Work and Holiday (462) visa not have prevsiouly entered Australia on a Working Holiday (417) visa (un
Am about to pack up computer then go to the airport to start a sequence of flights to give this a try.
I already have a room in a hostel booked for a few nights for when I get there, and will see how stuff goes.
Anyways, since there's been on and off discussion on this, just thought I'd post that I'm actually giving this a try.
(Will likely be a day or two before I can reply/comment/etc, given length of flights, etc.)
EDIT: Ugh. You take care of one aspect of the planning fallacy, and fail elsewhere. Long story short, I missed my flight and had to reschedule it to friday.
EDIT2: Packing up computer and going off to airport. Again. This time will be early.
EDIT3: And am here. and am exhausted. :) Will start looking for work stuff tomorrow. There's a job board at this hostel, but apparently there's not much currently. But right now am rather sleep deprived.
EDIT4: So today (Monday, May 21st) went to the visitor information center. I must have misunderstood the original article, was under the impression that the visitor center had job boards. Didn't, but pointed me to a nearby recruiting/contracting agency which they said might have appropriate stuff for visitors on a work&holiday visa. Went there. said that at least as of today there's nothing, but also needed a resume (which I didn't have with me, and my work experience is limited anyways.) Anyways, got a copy of the form, will dig out/fix up what resume I do have, and also keep looking. The board at this hostel didn't have much of anything in the way of work that I saw. Will look again, though, and see if I can find others.
EDIT5 (May 29th): Still looking for work, been asking/applying to various places, including that recruiting/contracting agency, and am right now waiting (well, and still looking.) Over the weekend, though, MileyCyrus and I went on an organized 3day Uluru/Kata Tjuta/Kings Canyon trip/hikes, which was awesome. But again, as far as work, tossing out inquiries and stuff all over, trying to find out who's hiring at the moment.