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Australia building industry
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Australia building industry
Working in the
Australian building industry
As I have said in
our previous post, Australia the land of opportunity, when I came to Australia
my first job in Australia was in the building industry, because I ended up to
work as a bricklayer’s labour, but I lost that first job for a couple of
reasons. I believe that I lost the first job, because I didn’t know much
English and at the same time I had no much experience in the sort of work we
were doing, and for that reason I could not guess what they wanted me to do
next. After that I had another job which ended very much the same way; but then
one day suddenly a small Italian builder needed a labour and he knew that I
could be available, so he came to fetch me and asked if I would be interested
to work for him, and this is how I ended up to work in the building industry, I
worked for this builder for about two years, but then he went on holiday to
Italy for a long time, therefore he temporary closed down the business, but by
then the Italian building community new about me, so, in a few days I had
another job to go to, always in the building industry with another builder or
contractors working as a bricklayer labour.
You see in those
times there was a lot more work for people wanting to work, but at the same
time we knew that we had to work hard because there was a lot of competition
going on even in those days, so what could we say if we work hard for it, we
would always find somebody that would give us work, because we earned our wage
plus a bit more for the employer. This is how I understood about the ways of
earning your living in this capitalist society, which is based on competition
and you are paid with what you deliver. Now, we have to say that this
capitalist way is very good, as long as the workers are not pushed beyond their
physical capacity, because when they are asked to do more than what is possible
for them to do, a lot of troubles and injustice are happening, so everything
needs to be fine-tuned, so to speak. But let us compare those times with our
times.
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Compare the old ways with the new
Here we would like
to compare the opportunities that we had when we came in Australia in the
sixties as legal migrant, to the opportunities of today that all these illegal
migrants have, you see the difference here is that they arrive by boat and
other illegal ways, for this reason they are starting the wrong way, so to
speak; but anyhow, let us compare the old ways of migrating with the new ways.
So, let us compare
the way that I and most other emigrants around the sixties, with what is
happening today illegal emigration, so that we might be able to spot some of
the reasons why things don’t seem to work as good as they used to work.
When I and the other
emigrants that came to Australia wanted to come to Australia during the sixties
we had to be screened before we could have a visa that would allow us to come
to Australia and work here.
This screening was
somehow strict, as they did not want anybody that could become sick easily, so
we had to go through a medical check, and there was another even stricter check
about being legally of good character, even if you had ever had trouble with
the police, in fact they were so strict about this that if one had been somehow
involved with the communist party, just by saying that you would vote for the
communist you would not be allowed to come to Australia.
Now I hope that I
have explained how strict they were then, but I believe that this was a good
thing then, because as I have already said when I went to the unemployment
office even though I did not speak much English they did everything possible to
find us a job, and if they could not find us a job they would pay us the
unemployment benefit.
Therefore I believe
that just about anyone that has
come to Australia and has seen Australia the same way that I have seen it, they
would know that Australia is a great country to live in; and if there is
somebody that does not like Australia, it must be because they have their own
personal problems and they are home sick, or they are just unwilling to work
hard and pay their way.
Today Australia
does not seem to be as good as it was when I came to Australia, because before
anyone that could see Australia the way I saw it would fall in love with the
Australian ways of living; but we have to say that we are still very well off
compared to other countries. So, we would like to conclude this post by saying
that Australia could be still the land of opportunities, if the people that
come here come with the intention of working hard as we have been working in
the past, they should not come with the intention of ripping us off, just
because they would like to have an easy life for themselves.
Anyhow this post is
becoming too long, so see you next time with another post about building or
properties; where we could be continuing telling you my life story and what I
have done in Australia to earn a living. See you there.
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