Bricklayer requiring work

**nic-manchester** · 17-01-2012, 02:45 AM

Fiffteen years exp ABN, White card ready to go. Extensive work on residential sites and stonework.

Does anyone know of anyone requiring a bricklayer, tried all normal roots, cold calling, dropping into sites, other people's contacts, even ones advertising don't answer the phone but nothing.....oh the ones that were interested don't answer now FRUSTRATING........

doing casual removal work and have been since we arrived not going to last much longer and is desperate to get back on hs tools doing what he loves!

Any help/advice or contacts would be appreciated.
Thanks
Nicola an Nathan

**ian mc** · 17-01-2012, 05:51 AM

Sorry to say but the bricklaying is dead just now and has been for the last 6 months there is not as many houses going up as there was. There are a lot of bricklayers looking for work just now, I know a few that have not worked for a while keep hearing things are going to pick up but don't know when.

**nic-manchester** · 17-01-2012, 06:39 AM

Looks like we off somewhere else then! I done my homework before we came an we did take a chance coming when we did Although I thought there would be mor opportunities.
It maddens me when sa put it on required trade but therevare no jobs when we get here they should have some sort of criteria so that there are a certain number of jobs being advertised in order for them to keep it on.
We didnt come here for Nathan to be a furniture remover, and we certainly didn't expect to be the top of our game here we knew we would have to go back to square one...but when you not even got the chance of doing it it's a bit impossible

Nicola

**smit** · 17-01-2012, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by nic-manchester

It maddens me when sa put it on required trade but therevare no jobs when we get here they should have some sort of criteria so that there are a certain number of jobs being advertised in order for them to keep it on.
We didnt come here for Nathan to be a furniture remover, and we certainly didn't expect to be the top of our game here we knew we would have to go back to square one...but when you not even got the chance of doing it it's a bit impossible

Nicola

when you would have applied for your visa there was loads of work but things have changed as you and others are now finding out. Thing being would you have not come if you read that building was down on this site....???. Hey i been here comin on 6 years , got laid off before xmas , got job up clipsal track,take a wander around and ask if any jobs goin who knows.
Its not great out there at mo and feel for you and others that are still comin

**bidsandrew** · 17-01-2012, 08:50 AM

We are in the same position, we got ss for my husband who is a greenkeeper/groundsman. He is struggling to find work and has really applied for all sorts of jobs not all related to his trade. He has managed to get 6 weeks driving a tractor at a wine farm in Mclaren Vale which he is really looking forward to but we dont know what will happen after that, fingers crossed something permanent will come up in the meantime.

Good luck to everyone else in the same position!

**trevorpayne** · 17-01-2012, 08:53 AM

Just pm you a job advert I have seen today good luck

**nic-manchester** · 17-01-2012, 08:55 AM

It's pants! That's all I can say good luck for your hubby an his tractor driving sounds like a interesting job!

Well jobs p next week so who knows what will happen, money for house deposits will slowly vanish before long

**xzibit** · 17-01-2012, 09:13 AM

Best advice is to move to another city. There's 0 jobs advertised in my line of work in Adelaide, about 80 in Melbourne.

**James** · 17-01-2012, 09:45 AM

The trouble is as you said the government let you in at high cost for the visa, you are entitled to nothing on many visas and then there is no work. From their view point they make money out of you, you pay for living here and feed the local economy etc, if you end up going back so what to them? However, I know no one said emigrating is easy but right now you may be as well of not using your savings up here. The job market is very tight and as many people can not claim benefit due to Australain rules I suspect real unemployment is lot higher than the statistics show. Hope you get lucky though and find something after all the effort coming.

**nic-manchester** · 17-01-2012, 09:47 AM

We got family in Brisbane but cost of relocating is expensive but they will put us up it's his bro an he is bricklayer so he said he would try get him work or start out themselves but we like it here, feel defeatist moving we thought we had to come here but seems not!!! Gonna try an get summat to get us going an save up a bit more then see what will happen end of year.

Thanks Leigh