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Old 01-08-2011, 08:41 PM   #50
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Default Re: Who works in the mines and what doing

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Originally Posted by 5.0
ALOT more, my mates nephew just started a boilermaking apprenticeship, he is 16 and on $90k apparently. This is up in Gladstone.
i would question that if he's a 1st year? some tradesmen i know in coalmining don't even earn that sort of coin.

as for the question someone asked about FIFO as opposed to living in the area. most of the remote towns are well... sh1tholes and blokes end up on the **** 'cause there's nothing else to do... well so i'm told by guys who've been there, done that...
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