Whoo...that last post was a bit of a dozy. That was the result of heavy drinking with a couple of Finnish mechanical engineers on a company card (not mine thank god). I am still in Aussie land, counting down the days until I get back to the states.
I was originally told that 17 days was all I was due here. That turned rapidly into the maximum 90 days on my visa. So assuming I leave when my visa is up, I got about 29 days left until I am flying back to the states. The thing is...the job won't be close to being finished so pretty much I will most likely get sent back almost immediately. I will be lucky to get a week back in town before I am shoved back into a plane to this hellish place.
I'm sorry. I am certain that a lot of people would like Australia. But doing any bit of construction work here is a nightmare of stupidity. I am used to dealing with safety rules. Hell, I used to work in nuclear power. But here...its stupid safety rules. Rules that when followed, actually create more dangerous situations. And the work site here has different companies competing against a clock. So each company tries to use the safety regs to fuck with the other companies. Its insanely time consuming and frankly, encourages workers to take risks just to get the job done.
I have word that unless I agree to come back to Brisbane, I am getting threatened with a job in rural India. Day to day, it would be worse in India in terms of food, water, accommodations, etc...but at least it would be fucking interesting. You take away the accents and pretty much Australia is fucking Mississippi except it costs an arm and a leg to live here.
Eh...its 8pm on a Friday night and I am about to hit the sack as the fucking worksite here requires me to be up at 4am, six days a week. Why? Well its fucking Australia so who the fuck knows...
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