Take it or leave it , I lived in in tents when I started , todays construction and mining camps are much more livable these days a lot like motel style living
Karl C the idea is to make it as comfortable as possible as you are sacrificing a lot of time away from your family. There’s a reason they don’t stay in tents anymore mate
Even in the Navy once you complete recruit training, you don't get told when to go to bed or dictated what to do by some poxy security guard - what an effing joke. Then again, some of these specific camps could have had issues with alcohol, drug users etc as this type of work attracts some rough head bogans who don't always exactly have good personal self-discipline skills etc.
Yes it is Very Strange, Very Strange Indeed how there are No Such Camps in Mackay, Yeppoon, Sarina, Townsville, Cairns, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Airlie Beach, The Sunshine Coast, The Gold Coast. Very Strange I Wonder Why Not?. I Wonder What is Going On?. If Only We Knew What is Going On?. I must Write to PM Morrison and Premier Palaszczuk and Ask them What is Going on with All these Camps?.
I have never worked at any mine that had a doctor on site, let alone a dentist haha. Most sites just have a medic (quite often they are either ex-army or have worked as a paramedic before) and some pretty basic medical supplies. Where I work at the moment is 500kms from the nearest town and we don't even have antivenin for a snakebite. Anything serious happens - you are 100% relying of the RFDS to save you, if they don't have a plane free then you're pretty much out of luck
I stayed in the mac camp at coppabella... its awesome you get a decent room with air con, shower, fridge and foxtel. The eatery was good you get a swipe card and can enter twice a day. You can eat steak dinner every night. Two gyms, swimming pool, a pub with keno and horse racing, tennis courts. It was pretty luxury tbh.
@@jmx318 i did it for 6 years in the Pilbara. Loved it. After four years away in Sydney doing a tunnel project its time to go back to the red dirt. Great life but not for everybody
@@jmx318 it is that. I am in day ten of quarantine in Perth and fly to Karratha on Thursday. Looking forward to it. New project with FMG and working with men and women I know and like from many projects past. That is a by-product of our chosen life: mateship and collegiality. Our life does separate us from the rest and to be successful I reckon you need to be resourceful, resilient and self-reliant. It's a bold life, hard, gutsy, nation building and worthwhile. You know you're alive.
Take it or leave it , I lived in in tents when I started ,
todays construction and mining camps are much more livable these days a lot like motel style living
Karl C the idea is to make it as comfortable as possible as you are sacrificing a lot of time away from your family. There’s a reason they don’t stay in tents anymore mate
bro just cause you had it shit doesn't mean others should lol
@@rowan-m8850 lol legit
@@rowan-m8850what do you mean?
@@rolfpoelman3486 what do you think i mean, its a very easy sentence to understand
i live in town close to the site im on. the company i work for forces me to stay in a camp thats further away from site then home is.
Even in the Navy once you complete recruit training, you don't get told when to go to bed or dictated what to do by some poxy security guard - what an effing joke. Then again, some of these specific camps could have had issues with alcohol, drug users etc as this type of work attracts some rough head bogans who don't always exactly have good personal self-discipline skills etc.
It’s good money working in the mining industry...
7 days ewww make no money!
Yes it is Very Strange, Very Strange Indeed how there are No Such Camps in Mackay, Yeppoon, Sarina, Townsville, Cairns, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, Airlie Beach, The Sunshine Coast, The Gold Coast. Very Strange I Wonder Why Not?. I Wonder What is Going On?. If Only We Knew What is Going On?. I must Write to PM Morrison and Premier Palaszczuk and Ask them What is Going on with All these Camps?.
I went to army.Nothing new.
Do they have doctors or dentists in this villas?
I have never worked at any mine that had a doctor on site, let alone a dentist haha. Most sites just have a medic (quite often they are either ex-army or have worked as a paramedic before) and some pretty basic medical supplies. Where I work at the moment is 500kms from the nearest town and we don't even have antivenin for a snakebite. Anything serious happens - you are 100% relying of the RFDS to save you, if they don't have a plane free then you're pretty much out of luck
@@mattd5256 you very obviously have not been around.
sounds like prisons.
in prison you dont have a key
You don't earn 200,000 a year in prison
I stayed in the mac camp at coppabella... its awesome you get a decent room with air con, shower, fridge and foxtel. The eatery was good you get a swipe card and can enter twice a day. You can eat steak dinner every night. Two gyms, swimming pool, a pub with keno and horse racing, tennis courts. It was pretty luxury tbh.
You might earn a little more but what an awful lifestyle.
its not a lifestyle its a job to support your familly
Its a great lifestyle you get a whole week off to yourself and i cant remember the last time i had a money problem
@@jmx318 i did it for 6 years in the Pilbara. Loved it. After four years away in Sydney doing a tunnel project its time to go back to the red dirt. Great life but not for everybody
Gregory Hall it’s extremely fast past but thats how i like it, seperates us from the rest i feel
@@jmx318 it is that. I am in day ten of quarantine in Perth and fly to Karratha on Thursday. Looking forward to it. New project with FMG and working with men and women I know and like from many projects past. That is a by-product of our chosen life: mateship and collegiality. Our life does separate us from the rest and to be successful I reckon you need to be resourceful, resilient and self-reliant. It's a bold life, hard, gutsy, nation building and worthwhile. You know you're alive.