Competition: 2004 award for worst living conditions

[o1genesis]

Hi everyone,

Just seeing if we can establish who is living in the worst possible conditions just to fulfill their flying dream for 2004.

What (or where) are you putting up with to get those hours in the logbook?

Maybey you are freezing your butt off or expiring in extreme heat? Or just not getting any! Does your housemate smell? Or are you after his girlfriend(s). What? you live in a dry community? There's no Maccas for a gillion miles around? No cable TV?

Who has it the worst? I say.


Whatever your reasons the winner will have the priviledge of knowing that they have worked in the worst conditions possible for 2004. (and you can put it on your resume if you think it will help)

But seriously lets start a just for fun thread that hopefully reveals some funny (if not sad) living conditions. I'm sure you're out there.

Cheers

the Gen

[the wizard of auz]

OK, I'll bite.
Fairly normal mustering camp.
If your very lucky you get to camp in the shearing shed/shearers quarters. no windows, tin shed type building with out windows, in some cases doors. hot in the summer, cold in the winter, wet when it rains. if you get a bad cook the food is ****e and theres nothing you can do about it.
without the shed/quarters you get all the luxury of sleeping under the stars every night, sunburn at five in the morning, mozzies at night and flys during the day. the water is usually bore water from a tank and is so hard you cant get soap to work in it when you have your weekly bucket wash. no power, no fridge or esky, dirt in every thing possible including your food. cattle in the yards shouting all night to keep you awake. extreme heat and cold. only wimen in the camp are the camp cook (ooooold and cranky) bosses wife (oooold and cranky) the odd jillaroo (usually faaaat and cranky and ten station hands drooling after it). the piss is limited and hot. mostly the food is stale. wages are poor, camp usually smells bad, have to kill your meat before you get to eat it, then about three days later you have to kill it again as it crawls around your plate. you get to crawl out of your swag a couple of hours before the sun gets up and back into it just before you have to get out of it. and quite a bit of other unpleasantness......................... I wouldn't swap it for a real job though. ;)

[Jaguar7777]

Great idea this post.

But after reading the above, I wont whinge about living in Darwin after all.:\

Keep em coming, and you all have my commisserations.

J.:ok:

[The Strez]

I'll second ya there Wiz....did the mustering thing for nearly 4 years.....always appreciate a nice hot shower and a roof over my head nowdays!!!
However, it's still the most fun flying I've ever done. I still look back on those days with the fondest of memories!!

[currawong]

Moo Moo Moo Moo:E

So Wiz, where do you plug in your computer to go on the Prune after a hard day chasing cows?

Honest question, not taking the pi55.:E


Fades to the theme music to the TV show "Rawhide"......

[the wizard of auz]

Been at it for seven years now and I still love the day the job gets finished.
I actually get to plug my puter in at home now days. Being the owner of the company, I work all the places close to home so I get to sleep at home for about half the year. the other half of the year......read as above.Oh, add to above, NO BLOODY PUTER. :{

[Towering Q]

Hey Wiz, some of the Jillaroos I've seen down Madura way look very tidy. McLeod's Daughter's has a lot to answer for.:ok:

[CurtissJenny]

What a thread but I cannot resist putting in my bit but I know it will not as bad as some.

The owner was a fellow who paid less than what the pilots should have been paid (by about 7K PA). And this was a remote location with all the high prices for tucker etc.
He prided himself on using a mobile phone for up to 3K per month but how do you write off mobile phone costs to business when you are just ordering up pizza to be delivered ?
A couple of the pilots were paid at the end of the season so they were giving the owner a free loan while they used their savings to live on for that period. The boss did not pay compulsary super but it all caught up with him in the end and some big super cheques were paid out to pilots long after they had moved on.

The pilots house was up the road from the hangar. There you had ....... who liked to clean his boots in the laundry over the fresh washing. Lovely chap. He wanted others to help secure his aircraft at the end of the day but when you taxied in it was a case of now you see him, now you don't!
His room made a pig sty look organised. His life was no different.
It did not take long to figure out his surname should have been loser ! Ex state public servant, ex married, ex this firm, ex that firm. Women treated him like he had bad BO. I could see why.
The pilot house had one garage and he had his buggy in there the whole season. No one else got a shot at that.

Then you had ....... He brought his lady with him and when the TV turned to crap programs the two of them disappeared into their bedroom next to the lounge to enjoy some horizontal tango. Heck those walls were thin !

Great memories !

[the wizard of auz]

Madura huh?.veeeery interesting. I'm off to cockelbiddy for a week on saterday, might have to have a quick look a bit further east.:}

[Richo]

I don't know boys, that Desert Sands Resort at AYE is a bit rough, when you are used to the Hilton in SY.

[currawong]

Thanks Wiz:ok:

Thought you might be hauling around some big satelite dish.