My OH, who is a plumber has thrown himself wholeheartedly into it here but has come across quite a lot of other pommie plumbers who have done nothing but moan - 'it's nothing like UK, I am not going to retrain who do they think they are, I am not digging holes and doing what we paid others to do in UK' etc and they are the ones who then seem to moan about everything else to do with Australia. Heaven only knows what they were expecting in reality
My OH is doing really well, is valued (site foreman have asked for him specifically - wow!) and to our amazement is earning better than he did in UK. He hasn't retrained yet simply coz he hasn't the time - too busy working all the hours that are available - but will eventually without any gripes.
I confess to have 'bitten' on some of the posts on PiO but now just leave them well alone because I am also aware that I have usually responded when I have been having a 'down' time (which I knew I would get) and need to just let it pass (as they do) because it is easy on those occasions to then see all the 'not so nice' things about Oz and let them overide all the good things and like has been said 'negativity breeds negativity'.
Lyn x
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