Technician Wages

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Might take you up on the offer someday. Oprah is overrated.

Well come on down fella's. You are welcome at my place anytime.

Barbeques, Beers and babes......... thats Australia.

We got that Oprah chick coming here tonight. All the news are carrying on like its the greatest thing ever. Whoopiedooo!!! Respect to her and crew, but all the fuss is abit much.

Well come on down fella's. You are welcome at my place anytime.

Barbeques, Beers and babes......... thats Australia.

We got that Oprah chick coming here tonight. All the news are carrying on like its the greatest thing ever. Whoopiedooo!!! Respect to her and crew, but all the fuss is abit much.

Now I work 16-17 hours a day. Trying to save some money for a trip. Peru, Brazil and Belize is places I'd like to see. Venezuela too btw. Too bad it cost a lot of money to travel there.

[Lotec]

Jetskis are illigal in Norway ... Don't know if it is too much fun? or just because it use gas and may pollute and make noise.. I think it's going to change in a 1-3 years time.
There is a limmit in how much you can use it here anyway..may to september.. or you will freeze you nuts of. Or wear a drysuit So how bad can it be?

Hey.. I can even remember when skateboarding was illigal.. I was stopped by the police back in 87. Hey kid..get of that board and walk home. It's illigal. Somebody had been hurt a few years back.. With that logic they should ban bikes as well. My Santa Cruz board with skelleton wheels and golden bar trucks lol. It became legal a year or so after that.

I was in Australia in 2001 or 2002. That was fantastic... and big..and big
We looked at the map, and wanted to see several places. The time (and cost) it took to coved the distances was more then I expected. My friend was born in Australia - but he left when he was 7 or 8. And he had only been there once again when he was in his early teens... when his parents paid for everything.
The change in scenery is really cool. From desert to tropical. Diving.. while scared shitless of sharks.. been watching Discovery channel to much
And I was in Coober Pedy digging for Opals for a day. That was hot in January. I've never experienced heat like that except for in Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia).
I've only been driving through New Mexico and Arizona in a 1972 Trans Am with a killer AC. But I can imagine it can be hot there too.
I remember I was always on the look for spiders and snakes in Australia.. again.. Steve Irwin.
Took a few days before I could relax more lol. In Norway we have one venomous snake, and you can handle a bite if you're healthy. I've been bitten once btw. I've had hangovers that is worse..
The climate is too cold for other snakes to live here.
I didn't have money to stay in Australia for more then 14 days. That is probably 6-8 weeks less then what I needed to see all the sights. (It's just like the US.. a few weeks is not enough.)
I was traveling in Asia at the moment, and was living on a very tight budget. The money and trip would last much longer in Thailand, Burma, Vietnam so we continued on our trip.

Now I work 16-17 hours a day. Trying to save some money for a trip. Peru, Brazil and Belize is places I'd like to see. Venezuela too btw. Too bad it cost a lot of money to travel there.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Australia is another place I want to visit before I croak. Sounds nice there.

and from what I have read, the guys from down under are not doing too bad.

Yeah, things are pretty sweet 'round here. Very nice place, massive jetski, hardly eat at home and the awesome benefits of staff pricing on goods!!!

One of the other techs just got himself a bayliner boat & another just imported a mustang from the states. We cant complain thats for sure.

This post sure is an interesting read. I find it hard to comprehend the differences, especially considering the Aussie dollar is now level with the US dollar.

[robscopyr]

"I am not sure I understand your point. The guy from Norway has a great package"

EEEeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww!

[JR2ALTA]

Very interesting and objective inside-analysis of your country.

[Lotec]

Yeah.. what you make does only depend on where you will spend the money.. more or less. How much you pay for a house/appartment/car/food/school/medicine and things like that is more important then what you make.

With my pay (and due to very high prices) I can only go out for dinner with my family a few times a year. Even McD is expensive lol.
An OK restaurant, steak, 1 bottle of wine and some onion rings for my wife and me will set me back about 200 dollar. I can almost buy an Xbox 360 for that amount.

I can travel from Norway to the Canary Islands (or Mallorca, or Greece, or Egypt.. and so on) for the same amount, including 1 week at an appartment hotel. And there I can eat the same meal for two people for 60 dollars or less and have an extra bottle of wine included..
In Egypt I ate my cheapest meal ever btw. 1/2 chicken, fries, salad and a coke for less than 2 dollars.

So I save my money, and spend them where I get more bang for the bucks.

But I don't complain. I just adjust my life to where I live. And I can travel more, and meet a lot of people.

In Norway we know that everything that is not good for you (alcohol, tobacco etc) will have very high taxes. So in my family we don't smoke and we don't drink that much.
If something is bad for the environment it has high taxes. So a lot of people drive small cars.. but if you live in a country with winter, 4x4 is nice. A bigger car is safer then a smaller car.
Sometimes it is very irritating, and lacks logic. I could buy two Mercedes C class cars, and it would be cheaper then one VW Caravell which has no luxury feeling, it has no extras and it does not handle all that well. Still the weight = high taxes. Now what is better for the environment: We drive one car or two
I can even buy 4-5 small Daewoos..
Not that I can afford a new car anyway.. except for the Tata Nano.. if they sold it here.. with no taxes

I have family in the US and Canada - and when I'm there I can go and eat at a restaurant or diner for a low price. My familiy (in the US) go out 3-4 days a week. If I was supposed to do that in Norway, I would have to make twice of what I do now.

But with the system we have now - I see that I am lucky. I have recieved much more from the system then I have paid for.. so far.
I'm not sure I will ever reach a point where I pay more then I recieve..
I have been going to school for free for 21 years. Even when I was drafted in the Navy I got classes worth a lot of money - that was not just focused on the military needs. I got a licence to drive just about everything with wheels. Classes in fiberoptics, networks, computer software, welding (MIG/MAG/TIG). And I learned to blow a lot of shit up
I have 3 children that will get free school, doctor, dentist and so on.
I just don't make enough money to pay more then I get.
If I don't start to drink and smoke a lot, and drive a Hummer.. and so on

I think that with a system like we have - there is no people that is left without a home, and there is no people that have to make money quick to pay for medical bills or food. So it should be a fairly safe place. You will always have drug users that have to get money one way or another - but they are usually not violent.

On the other hand you get a society where slackers can live a good life without ever working. And people that pretend they can't work - and just want to life of the money they get from the state. That makes me pissed.
It may also leed to less competition, where people don't give a 100%. But some studies show that a regular worker can do a lot of work in a day when they can focus on their job - and not worrying about how they're going to pay a medical bill or stuff like that.

Some may not like that the state choose what a certain amount of their money is spent for. They want to pay for what they use, and spend the moeny the way they like.
I pay about 30% tax by the way. I think it's fair. I don't like to pay the tax, but it's still fair.
But as with all systems there are advantages and disadvantages.

[fixthecopier]

If anything this looks to be a good lesson on socialism and what it costs...

I am not sure I understand your point. The guy from Norway has a great package and from what I have read, the guys from down under are not doing too bad.

[verderacer]

If anything this looks to be a good lesson on socialism and what it costs...

[canonclc]

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

And this is why we (USA) all get a bad rap from other countries

How typical of you sir. If you are going to quote me, then you need to quote the remainder of my statement that went with the portion you quoted, as it completely changes the meaning and context.

[Milo Wilson]

I worked in Spain in a tourist destination for a while. That company used a car with GPS tracking, and an automated system that gave the job to the tech that was near by. We had never more than 1 job on our worklist.
The system was automated, but I'm sure they could go in manually and pinpoint the cars location.

But they had a cool thing. A small bar code scanner pen that we could dock to a PC in the car after the job was done.
I scanned the barcode of the machine when I came to the customer. I then scanned all the parts I replaced and I scanned the machine once again when I left.
When I docked it to the USB in the laptop, the information was sent to the office. They knew exectly how much time I had used and what parts that I had changed. They knew the true service cost of all the brands/models and adjusted the machines they sold according to that info.
Also, when I parked the car at the office in the evening - the logistics guys made the car ready for the nexy day.
The next morning, the parts had been replaced, the car was washed inside and outside, it had a full tank of gas and the oil had been checked. Yeah.. the company was run by a German. Got to love the control.
It was as close to a stress free job at a tech can get. Everything was in order.
The pay was low though.. about 1000 euros a month... thats about 1300 dollars. I got a bonus every month... about 100 euros.
But it was cheap to live there, to go out and eat and drink. And the weather was nice. And I knew it was only for 6 month.
Learned a few extra words in spanish as well

Now this company sounds like they had it together...Wish I could work there..LOL

[Milo Wilson]

If I offend you, I don't care. If you disagree, I still don't care.

And this is why we (USA) all get a bad rap from other countries