Quote Originally Posted by Gavin Luper View Post
Mining jobs/jobs working up on the mines are always in high demand and pay EXCEPTIONALLY well. Usually well upwards of $100k per annum, and this kind of money is going to skilled 18-year-old bogans. It mostly involves labouring, driving, engineering kind of jobs I believe, and lots of fly-in, fly-out work in the outback kind of environments, so ... that possibly is not what you/Ben are looking for. But it is probably the best-paying job out there at the moment.
Large parts of this are folklore.

Mining jobs are generally highly sought after with tons of applicants (especially the less skilled ones), and have absurdly low job security (read: if we take another GFC like hit they'll fire 2-3x as many staff as the other sectors).


You do get paid well in the short term, but it's high risk and doesn't always pay well in the long run because of the high rates of retrenchment & long periods of unemployment that can follow.