Sounds about right. Had a family friend who was one decades ago. Very specialist, high paying, high demand, and very high fatality rate even now. He didn't end up as that statistic though.
Welding and Welding related tradeskills are great fun. MIG, TIG, Stick, Brazing, OxyAcetylene, Thermal Cutting...
But once you teach me about shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) and then introduce the concept of underwater welding, that's a big no from me thanks.
First you have to be a commercial diver. That alone is a job in itself. You need to be able to maneuver naturally underwater - setting your BCD, monitoring breathing mixes, compression diving... That's a job by itself.
Then take your skills in welding, which must also be top notch, because water cools your pool a lot faster than air does, so making sure you keep water from entering your slag as you weld, that's almost an artform.
Oh. And yeah, if you pull that electrode off the weld by more than a cm without noticing and power is still going? It's gonna arc to you and jolt you. Which if that doesn't kill you, it will surely make you drown in one way or another.
Underwater welders would be rarer than actual underwater basket weavers.
When I did my commercial diving ticket the guy I was doing the welding dives with used to weld topside and had this automatic habit of tapping the stick. He kept doing it subsea and would get a whack of DC every time and squeal, it would happen every 2 minutes and had me dying with laughter. Positive reinforcement didn’t seem to work
You’d need a fair few tickets and training, considering you don’t know the name of the profession I don’t think you’ll have the qualifications to do it. Look into entry level mining jobs like offsider etc.
I'm sick of these types of posts.
Get in touch with a mining recruitment agency and ask them.
Any job in resources that pays this much is going to be very highly specialised. So if you don't know about it, you don't know about it.
Some say 'Arry's still aht there ... drillin' away under the briney. Many a night people 'ave 'eard 'im, droppin' 'is haitches and never missin' a depth. No idea what that means.
Damn, I think we've already reached our quota on those jobs for this month. They go pretty quick!
Anyway, could we instead interest you in a FIFO mining job and a 4x2 in a great, desirable, and cheap neighbourhood?
You will not get a job. If that kind of work existed people here already would have it. You would have to offer an incredible skill to get something like that.
Aside from the formal qualifications and experience needed, a lot of these roles are who you know, not what you know.
Also, once you work rigging jobs that pay that kind of money, you'll see *why* it pays $6k a week.
Literally 12+ hours a day working, for 2 or 3 weeks straight (yes, even the weekends) and then a week off. And it's intense work working in tough conditions. It will make your usual 40 hour working week feel like a part time job.
Then, that week off, the first few days are spent just recovering from working 12 hours a days for 14 to 21 straight days.
That kind of money you’re doing at least even time roster. 2/2, 3/3, 4/4… many variations, especially offshore.
Heck, some jobs with give you 2 on, 2 off, 2 on, 4 off (weeks) when you’re valuable enough to the company to be earning that sort of dough.
$6000/week is less than $900/day. That’s not unusual offshore. Most jobs on an oil rig will be paying that but you only work half the year so it’s not crazy money. Then again, more experienced jobs will pay significantly more.
Standard rotation is 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off. It costs too much to chopper people on and off more regularly unless you’re particularly important or are only needed as a one-off.
Offshore oil and gas has much lower tolerance for dickheads than mining. If you’re taking up a bed on the rig, you’re expected to be able to do your job and to get along with the people around you. An oil rig or offshore support vessel is too small for the sort of fuckery that you get on many mine sites.
The hardest part is going to be convincing someone that you’re worth a chance.
There are concreters earning 3K a week in Perth.
You need to want to learn a trade, do it well, work like a dog and do it for at least 50hrs a week. You don't really need to go to the mines to earn good money.
Had a friend work in oil and gas when he was in his 20’s. He started out in mining as a drillers offsider for a few years. There’s a lot of training quals you need to even be considered for an offshore gig and it ain’t cheap.
So I would suggest getting a job as a drillers offsider since they’ll take almost anyone. Because if you can’t handle exploration drilling on land, you’re sure as shit not going to handle offshore work.
As an outside observer (field assistant many years ago), it seemed to me like that drilling companies would give almost anyone a shot since the turnover was so high on account of how hard the job is.
You aren't even qualified as a drillers offsider. WTF you think you are gonna get helicoptered to an offshore rig without a clue of anything? Start at the bottom and work your way up, that is still a thing here. But you have to be able to work your guts out in brutal conditions to get there. Are you up to it?
It sounds like you're thinking of a SAT Diver or Underwater Welder. Neithier of those are easy work by any means, and the qualifications/tickets will cost a small fortune.
Unless you know people already on the rigs or are highly skilled in certain onshore mining, you literally have no chance of getting on the rigs.
I know chefs making up to $180k a year, so I assume the miners are on a lot more than that. The chefs have been there years. The roles are like hens teeth.
They're 6k for a reason. Some of the most physically demanding, dangerous and no room for rushed under qualified operators I knew a couple ex mils that have said being on tour is a walk in the park in comparison.
In this thread: a bunch of people who have never worked offshore pretending they know anything about working offshore.
It has very little resemblance to mining.
Same guy that they know that sells pingas for 7 bucks each and ALWAYS has pure coke and ozs of Durban poison for 450bucks But never has any when you go around
They are lying to you, to put it simply. If less than 25% of Australia earn over 100k, it's either people lie about the "fantasy" wages, or you have near 0% chance on getting the job.
Wanting a 6k a week job and can’t even do your own research.. I’m sure all of the recruiters in Perth will be fighting to hire you.
Lmao rekt
Easy. Just marry into the right family.
If you married into the right family you aren't working ON the rigs. You.run them.
if you're married into the right family, you don't need to worry about oil rigs. just sit back, relax and enjoy the fracking.
Please tell me more. lol
Well you heard about them, you tell us. Probably that super dangerous underwater welding job all over tiktok
Sounds about right. Had a family friend who was one decades ago. Very specialist, high paying, high demand, and very high fatality rate even now. He didn't end up as that statistic though.
Welding and Welding related tradeskills are great fun. MIG, TIG, Stick, Brazing, OxyAcetylene, Thermal Cutting... But once you teach me about shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) and then introduce the concept of underwater welding, that's a big no from me thanks. First you have to be a commercial diver. That alone is a job in itself. You need to be able to maneuver naturally underwater - setting your BCD, monitoring breathing mixes, compression diving... That's a job by itself. Then take your skills in welding, which must also be top notch, because water cools your pool a lot faster than air does, so making sure you keep water from entering your slag as you weld, that's almost an artform. Oh. And yeah, if you pull that electrode off the weld by more than a cm without noticing and power is still going? It's gonna arc to you and jolt you. Which if that doesn't kill you, it will surely make you drown in one way or another. Underwater welders would be rarer than actual underwater basket weavers.
When I did my commercial diving ticket the guy I was doing the welding dives with used to weld topside and had this automatic habit of tapping the stick. He kept doing it subsea and would get a whack of DC every time and squeal, it would happen every 2 minutes and had me dying with laughter. Positive reinforcement didn’t seem to work
Get into the NDT side of it, then you get to tell them it needs to be done again 😁
You’d need a fair few tickets and training, considering you don’t know the name of the profession I don’t think you’ll have the qualifications to do it. Look into entry level mining jobs like offsider etc.
And even they are harder to get them people realise.
I'm sick of these types of posts. Get in touch with a mining recruitment agency and ask them. Any job in resources that pays this much is going to be very highly specialised. So if you don't know about it, you don't know about it.
Easy. They are called “fantasy”.
You wanna talk to Harry Stamper, he’s been drilling for 30 years and he’s never missed a depth.
Didn’t Harry pass away bang on completion of that specialised dig for some little unknown company back in ‘98?
Some say 'Arry's still aht there ... drillin' away under the briney. Many a night people 'ave 'eard 'im, droppin' 'is haitches and never missin' a depth. No idea what that means.
Damn, I think we've already reached our quota on those jobs for this month. They go pretty quick! Anyway, could we instead interest you in a FIFO mining job and a 4x2 in a great, desirable, and cheap neighbourhood?
Get on seek, look them up, see the qualifications they require, do that, and apply just like any other job
None for unskilled workers and the jobs paying that sort of money are usually pretty dangerous.
Last time I was on a rig in Australian waters the cleaners were warning more than that.
"We're warning you ... don't ever leave the toilet in that state again."
Next you’ll be asking for a nice cheap rental then ya alarm goes off and you wake from the dream
You will not get a job. If that kind of work existed people here already would have it. You would have to offer an incredible skill to get something like that.
Aside from the formal qualifications and experience needed, a lot of these roles are who you know, not what you know. Also, once you work rigging jobs that pay that kind of money, you'll see *why* it pays $6k a week. Literally 12+ hours a day working, for 2 or 3 weeks straight (yes, even the weekends) and then a week off. And it's intense work working in tough conditions. It will make your usual 40 hour working week feel like a part time job. Then, that week off, the first few days are spent just recovering from working 12 hours a days for 14 to 21 straight days.
That kind of money you’re doing at least even time roster. 2/2, 3/3, 4/4… many variations, especially offshore. Heck, some jobs with give you 2 on, 2 off, 2 on, 4 off (weeks) when you’re valuable enough to the company to be earning that sort of dough.
This has to be a gee up?
$6000/week is less than $900/day. That’s not unusual offshore. Most jobs on an oil rig will be paying that but you only work half the year so it’s not crazy money. Then again, more experienced jobs will pay significantly more. Standard rotation is 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off. It costs too much to chopper people on and off more regularly unless you’re particularly important or are only needed as a one-off. Offshore oil and gas has much lower tolerance for dickheads than mining. If you’re taking up a bed on the rig, you’re expected to be able to do your job and to get along with the people around you. An oil rig or offshore support vessel is too small for the sort of fuckery that you get on many mine sites. The hardest part is going to be convincing someone that you’re worth a chance.
90% are a scam For the rest, you need top notch qualifications and references.
Whats the first step?
Knowing the name of the profession
Im earning 2.5 k a week in Perth, just get a trade boom
There are concreters earning 3K a week in Perth. You need to want to learn a trade, do it well, work like a dog and do it for at least 50hrs a week. You don't really need to go to the mines to earn good money.
What role are you doing?
Had a friend work in oil and gas when he was in his 20’s. He started out in mining as a drillers offsider for a few years. There’s a lot of training quals you need to even be considered for an offshore gig and it ain’t cheap. So I would suggest getting a job as a drillers offsider since they’ll take almost anyone. Because if you can’t handle exploration drilling on land, you’re sure as shit not going to handle offshore work.
Haha. This fallacy that driller offsider a will take anyone needs to stop. It’s harder to get into the mines then people really think.
As an outside observer (field assistant many years ago), it seemed to me like that drilling companies would give almost anyone a shot since the turnover was so high on account of how hard the job is.
Exploration drilling on land is far harder work than the majority of offshore oil and gas jobs.
You dont just walk into 6k pw jobs.on oil rigs. Since you dont know what they are you probably dont have the skills required.
The Land of Make Belief. Yes there is likely some high skilled, specialized and experienced people on rigs making that kind of money.
You aren't even qualified as a drillers offsider. WTF you think you are gonna get helicoptered to an offshore rig without a clue of anything? Start at the bottom and work your way up, that is still a thing here. But you have to be able to work your guts out in brutal conditions to get there. Are you up to it?
>I want to move to Perth in Western Australia That's where I pegged this as a wind-up.
It sounds like you're thinking of a SAT Diver or Underwater Welder. Neithier of those are easy work by any means, and the qualifications/tickets will cost a small fortune.
Before tax? It's about 70/hr on an 84hr week. Get a trade, get the right tickets, get applying.
Unless you know people already on the rigs or are highly skilled in certain onshore mining, you literally have no chance of getting on the rigs. I know chefs making up to $180k a year, so I assume the miners are on a lot more than that. The chefs have been there years. The roles are like hens teeth.
Underwater welding
Come and find me to claim your 50k If you land into one of these underwater welding job in 12 months.. I am in a good mood so make it 16 months!
You’ll need the Ozito stick welder ticket. Just send $5000 to my Nigerian bank account
I bet you want John Travolta to pilot the plane also
They're 6k for a reason. Some of the most physically demanding, dangerous and no room for rushed under qualified operators I knew a couple ex mils that have said being on tour is a walk in the park in comparison.
Yeah mate , just send us your credit card deets and I’ll get you on , no worries 👍🏽 … might need an upfront deposit and we’ll go from there 😉
Unless you are a sub sea engineer, you can dismiss what you hear.
In this thread: a bunch of people who have never worked offshore pretending they know anything about working offshore. It has very little resemblance to mining.
I know someone whos doing utilities work on an oil rig for 4k a week
Maybe you should ask them
Same guy that they know that sells pingas for 7 bucks each and ALWAYS has pure coke and ozs of Durban poison for 450bucks But never has any when you go around
So maybe you should ask your friend and report back?
*slow clap*
They are lying to you, to put it simply. If less than 25% of Australia earn over 100k, it's either people lie about the "fantasy" wages, or you have near 0% chance on getting the job.