Expect to earn a tad over $500 a week after tax on single award.
Half is rent the rest is food and booze.
In most pilot houses there is a bloke in each room and the resident couch warmer trying to get a job (or waiting for one of you to leave a room so he can take up a more permanent residence)
Don't even think that you will study when you get there, cause life revolves around booze and trying to get sleep between 4am starts and working six days a week.
Yeah you never have any money but everyone is in the same boat, just don't be a tight arse, share the beer!
Don't think about it, pack up hit the road and don't look back. Some of my best memories were the drives and overnight stops with the truckies and the random pissups along the way.