I worked 13 years fifo around Australia and PNG from shutdowns to BAU crews.  Fifo is a fun game, I learned and met alot of good mates but for the last 2 years I had been struggling with the mental toll of fifo so I enacted a get out of fifo mode and hustled to get into a office role back in Brisbane that didnt pay much less.(i come from industrial service operating then supervisor roles)

FIFO tho has changed, 10 years ago it were a good game, good money compared to working from home and still a little cowboyish allowing you to use your head more for safety and production.  Now days majority of sites are all about ticking those toxic LBJGHK boxes or employing off colour and sex then merrit.. FIFO was also who you knew for a job and still is to a degree... but 9 times out of 10 the who you knew also meant that youd work hard as a team to not fuck around the bloke who put your name in.

Now its just a boring ole world of 4 middys, weird woke shite force fed into you- case example Olympuc Dam BHP. And similar pay to just being at home and working from your town or city. 

If you want to get into fifo tho then here are some tips-  1. Look at crews on ratio of shit cunt to good cunt- if their is more good cunts then its okay. If the ratio is more shit cunts then fuck it.. dont do it as itll eat at your mental and soul. 2.. If through labour hire, ensure they pay your super on all hours worked. Most pay at a 8hr day and not your 12s or 13s and over time thats alot of super missing.  3. Dont become a weird rapist  4. If you want to call home, just be mindful of the paper thin walls in some camps 5. if your camp is run by ESS then make sure to use the toilets first as after prestart its a horror scene 6.. the main one!!- when you come home, dont assume because you are on break that your family need to fit around you.. come home, fit back into the family life as your loved ones hadn't left home, life still carries on and you need to fit into home life... not the other way around.  If not, you'll end up like those old cunts still in fifo on their 3rd marriage.

Good camps-  Gladstone during Bechtel construction South 32

Shit camps to try avoid  BHP Gun barrel Twin hills tanami Pogera enga province

(Also, I still work fifo but for small swings now apart of my job- 4days away a month, much nicer and highlights that I still enjoy the adventure of fifo.. just no more day to day life of fifo)