Job Focus – GeoTech (underground)

What roster are you on?
Currently doing an 8 days on and 6 days off roster
Describe a typical shift for you.
A typical shift for me would be, first thing in the morning taking all my gear down underground, heading to the fresh cuts that have been blasted, taking fresh grab samples, cleaning up all the cuts [...]

Job Focus

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for ages – particularly to provide a bit of a window into the career paths of FIFO workers for those who’re considering the lifestyle.   I recently recorded a couple of interviews with some people working at my current site about their jobs and will post them shortly.  [...]

Pearls of Wisdom

I’m a ‘collector’ of great language moments.  I love those quirky things that people say now and then that are right out of left field.  Here’s a few I’ve collected over the last few swings:

(in relation to fly out day) “It’s ‘pussy’ day today!”
(in relation to the freakish bumps in the lawn bowls pitch) “Lucky [...]

Reflections on a Swing

The first version of this post was typed while flying over the Gascoyne region of WA heading home.  It turned into a 3000 word rant about the ridiculous behaviours I’ve been subjected to or witnessed this last two weeks.  It’s almost entirely unpublishable so I’ve redesigned the post this morning and I’m providing you with [...]

Shift Change Drinkies

Okay before you read any further you need to know I’m a leetle bit drunk.  It’s shift-change day.  At my site we start on nights and shift to days in the second week.  Weird I know.  And I wish it was the other way round.  We all prefer nights to days because there’s less bosses [...]