Thinking of becoming a cabbie! - Page 7

Blighter · 22-08-2009, 00:24

Well I've scrappped the cabbie plan

Going to go the easy route

Step:

1) Save up enough for a 1-2 year working visa (you need min £1500 + return flight money in your bank when you apply for the visa)
2) Go and work for one of my uncles friends doing IT bits and bobs (handyman xD)
3) If it works out at their company, then stay till the end of the visa period
If not, then find something else (easier said then done I know)
4) Before my visa expires, apply for the permanent visa thing (the word escapes me) and either come back to the UK while it's processed, or NZ (you can't be in AU while you apply for a permanent visa).

So that's my plan.

Garp · 22-08-2009, 00:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Haly

New Zealand
*stops being a pedant*

I apologise

I know it was.. but didn't you know the writer thought the aussies had suffered too much already and that New Zealand deserved some horror

this may be a total lie

Blighter · 22-08-2009, 01:01

Ever seen Rabbit Proof Fence? I nearly cried at that

Haly · 22-08-2009, 01:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Garp

I know it was.. but didn't you know the writer thought the aussies had suffered too much already and that New Zealand deserved some horror

this may be a total lie

Darrin · 22-08-2009, 20:16

The worst I ever had happen to me while living in Australia was I fell off the banister on the front porch and disappeared into the red ant nest in the front garden...

Mum wasn't too happy with me coming screaming into the house with close on to 10,000 poisonous ants crawling all over me!!

Oh, and she wasn't too happy with me bringing my fuzzy friend into the house either. Not sure what it was but (I was 3 at the time) I seem to remember it resembled a 6" tarantula...

Pumpkinstew · 23-08-2009, 17:47

I remember jumping off a bus in Tasmania while the driver had a smoke break. The last think he said was ' I'd like to remind passengers that there are 7 species of poisonous snake in Tasmania and this far away from a hospital thay're all fatal.'

Darrin · 23-08-2009, 20:21

*jumps back on bus....*

Kreeeee · 28-08-2009, 21:25

Got the job, not bad considering it's the only place I've applied for

Mark · 28-08-2009, 21:31

Had to go back and find out what job that was. Sounds interesting. Well done.

divine · 28-08-2009, 22:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blighter

2) Go and work for one of my uncles friends doing IT bits and bobs (handyman xD)
3) If it works out at their company, then stay till the end of the visa period
If not, then find something else (easier said then done I know)

I was under the impression you could only be employed for up to 4 months or something at one place under the terms of the one year work travel visa thing?

22-08-2009, 00:24	#61
Blighter Dubious Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Northampton Posts: 1,571	Well I've scrappped the cabbie plan Going to go the easy route Step: 1) Save up enough for a 1-2 year working visa (you need min £1500 + return flight money in your bank when you apply for the visa) 2) Go and work for one of my uncles friends doing IT bits and bobs (handyman xD) 3) If it works out at their company, then stay till the end of the visa period If not, then find something else (easier said then done I know) 4) Before my visa expires, apply for the permanent visa thing (the word escapes me) and either come back to the UK while it's processed, or NZ (you can't be in AU while you apply for a permanent visa). So that's my plan. __________________ Look at your signature, now back to mine, now back to yours, now back to mine. Sadly, yours isn't mine. But if you stopped writing about other things and made this your signature, yours could be like mine. Look down, back up. Where are you? You're on Boat Drinks, reading the signature your signature could be like. I'm on a computer. My Blog \| More Outdoors \| MSN \| Email \| Call Me

22-08-2009, 01:01	#63
Blighter Dubious Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Northampton Posts: 1,571	Ever seen Rabbit Proof Fence? I nearly cried at that __________________ Look at your signature, now back to mine, now back to yours, now back to mine. Sadly, yours isn't mine. But if you stopped writing about other things and made this your signature, yours could be like mine. Look down, back up. Where are you? You're on Boat Drinks, reading the signature your signature could be like. I'm on a computer. My Blog \| More Outdoors \| MSN \| Email \| Call Me

22-08-2009, 20:16	#65
Darrin Dirteh Kitteh Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hiding out in Mormon Country Posts: 1,629	The worst I ever had happen to me while living in Australia was I fell off the banister on the front porch and disappeared into the red ant nest in the front garden... Mum wasn't too happy with me coming screaming into the house with close on to 10,000 poisonous ants crawling all over me!! Oh, and she wasn't too happy with me bringing my fuzzy friend into the house either. Not sure what it was but (I was 3 at the time) I seem to remember it resembled a 6" tarantula... __________________ A bullet may have your name on it, but shrapnel is addressed "to whom it may concern".

23-08-2009, 17:47	#66
Pumpkinstew Absinthe Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Mostly Oxford, Sometimes Bristol Posts: 1,156	I remember jumping off a bus in Tasmania while the driver had a smoke break. The last think he said was ' I'd like to remind passengers that there are 7 species of poisonous snake in Tasmania and this far away from a hospital thay're all fatal.' __________________ Get old, or die tryin' PSTEWREVIEWS - Chunks of Meaty Reviews, Mixed with Your Five a Day of News, Comment and Opinion, Floating in a Broth of Suspect Grammar and Seasoned Liberally with Mixed Metaphor. Tasty.

23-08-2009, 20:21	#67
Darrin Dirteh Kitteh Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hiding out in Mormon Country Posts: 1,629	jumps back on bus.... __________________ A bullet may have your name on it, but shrapnel is addressed "to whom it may concern".

28-08-2009, 21:25	#68
Kreeeee Long Island Iced Tea Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 278	Got the job, not bad considering it's the only place I've applied for __________________

28-08-2009, 21:31	#69
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Had to go back and find out what job that was. Sounds interesting. Well done.