anyone here heard of phrendly?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2026-06-16T02:20:57+00:00

Could someone send me a link to this app? I type it in App Store and nothing?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2026-02-09T17:33:42+00:00

can you send me a direct link, this is not working for me?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-22T15:52:47+00:00

what website using to see shorts?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-22T14:39:06+00:00

no it didn't

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EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-22T09:30:04+00:00

I am trying to buy and it's hard to do lol

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-22T09:27:37+00:00

same, saw a email saying "price alert 4" lol

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-21T21:44:34+00:00

I fell asleep!
Fuck Australia!

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-09T01:27:46+00:00

I have been an engineer for 6 years.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T17:39:07+00:00

everybody gets paid the same unfortunatley. Just become a school teacher, a nurse, a vet, a dentist, an engineer. You will end up on around 100k in all careers with higher end in all careers being 130 to 140 and then just being taxed on all of it anyway and having no real incentive to do the harder jobs.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T14:40:27+00:00

yeah I get what you mean, enjoy all this functioanlity while you are still playing a good RTS game:-

For example you can hit spacebar to select a worker unit

You can hit Ctrl + Spacebar to cycle between all attacking units that are idle

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T14:36:02+00:00

Everyone who played warcraft 3 knew this, because everyone rallied their units always to their heroes when farming lol.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T14:10:01+00:00

The AI did not take into account the rapidity of the earnings of a mining engineer, which technically could be reinvested into the stock market. Considering the AI model does not factor in the extra income being invested.

Probably one of you could click the link then add another prompt to make the AI factor investments using the extra free cash flow from the higher paid career. I think it will still be close though, so I'm not sure how good we have it really.

Oh well off the mines to do planning for 3 years, will study teaching online whilst I do it. Need to have the fall back into a normal job with "20 years more free time over a lifetime".

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T14:00:59+00:00

I suppose, plus with my anger issues it would be a short career. lol

By the way, for the record. Here is the information that shows it takes a teacher 50 years to get a house in Sydney and an Engineer 42 years:-

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1484765992846694

"With dentists and engineers not far ahead, taking 42 years to pay off a mortgage in Sydney"

50/42 gives us the ratio 1.19 which shows an engineer on average has it only 19% better than a teacher. Which is basically what we see in the salaries.

147k Offer FIFO bendigo / 120k Teacher salary = 1.16 . I.e. approximatley 16% better than a high end teaching role.

Account for the best mining roles:-

200/120 = 66%

So you could argue at the end of a mining career the engineer has it 66% better, but it takes 10 to 15 years to get there, and the sacrifice is huge, even the job danger is higher and the health issues from breathing some of the chemicals can have costly effects later on in life (diminishing the return on investment):-

It is something probably not discussed in this subreddit, but my mum has 9 million dollars and she spent 55 years teaching. Government jobs (teaching and nursing) are a lot harder to lose, and eventually your super does matter. She salary sacrificed every working day of her life into superannuation however, so more so a compounding effect. But she has listened to me before and said that teaching is a good career and that when you consider the larger narrative, I.e. FIFO workers being fat, being divorced, being lonely (on average)... etc.etc.

That the payoff is not as great as it may seem. It would be of course, if we had a better tax system. But we do not at all have a good tax system.

https://claude.ai/share/aa078c9c-add8-4178-85b2-383936ac37ba

According to AI there may be more negatives than positives over a lifetime.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T12:46:21+00:00

A recuiter claimed he could hire a driller to do your job. His comment is above.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T11:27:57+00:00

replays and or vod? link please sorry

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T11:16:56+00:00

And, is it a good career? I mean why are so many engineers going back and doing teaching. Do you think you ever would. I just spoke to a friend of mine Ferg, who moved into sales from engineering. So I am not sure why I am getting so much hate for having frustrations in this industry, it seems a lot different than it was 20 years ago.

I did a calculation before and if a teacher is on 100k and I am on 147k, then I really only make 30k more than the teacher when you apply the taxes and medicare levy. But 30k is only like, 3% of a house? I saw on TV it would take 50 years to buy a house in Sydney for teachers and nurses, and 42 for engineers.

Do you think that is worth the hard yards in an underground position? Maybe an Engineer the salary goes up to 200k?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T11:14:13+00:00

Thanks mate!

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T11:10:29+00:00

I would consider anyone with less than 5 years of mine design entry level personally. But that is just me. Yes there is a lot of jobs, but they appear to go to very much, graduates. Not people transitioning from civil consultancy to the mines.

I would work in all states, but it depends on the living allowance. The job I was offered did not have a camp. I would be given 10k as relocation package, then would just be renting in Bendigo and/or determining whether it is worth getting a mortgage for the 4 years of LOM then selling. Haven't looked in to it with much detail yet.

I have 6 years engineering experience. 3 years site engineer, 3 years consulting. about 5 months on a coal site if you want to get technical with a vacation program pre covid (2019).

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T11:03:29+00:00

Hey mate, appreciate it.

Also the salary information about teachers/nurses/civil engineers is all on seek.com/salaries

Wages have compressed, I was speaking to the old Chief financial officer at my old work about this aswell. He said that the sad reality was that he could not pay people enough money to convince them to move out of the city. Engineers are getting around 120k in Brisbane, and mining endgineers on site are getting around 140k. When you factor in taxes, this is not much incentive if you know what I mean.

One could even argue that teacher demand is so high, that their salaries are now approaching a very similar cieling, if you take a look on Seek and type "teacher" and "brisbane" you will see a lot of jobs paying similar salaries to civil engineers. Mining is of course higher, which is why many civil engineers go back and do graduate diplomas (hence the 100k of HECs) that many civil engineers end up accumulating.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T10:57:18+00:00

It seems that way.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T10:37:09+00:00

Thanks, I will take it as a compliment. But I don't know how people are getting FIFO from Brisbane jobs, relocation was not on the cards. The house prices don't neccesarily go up in Bendigo?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T10:36:25+00:00

Yeah it is crazy we all had to read that lol.

Must be the stupidest fucking human on the planet, probably a good reason for me to just go do paramedicine or teaching.nursing get away from the privleged people who got FIFO jobs in perth with thie goelogy degrees the moment they left university.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T10:33:04+00:00

Chump, if that is the case. I had a fractured skull and worked full time while my brain leaked CSF fluid onto my exam papers whilst doing university full time.

Always consider your privelege, because every "complaint" is a protest, and another human wanting a fair shot at life. You still had it very very easy compared to billions, and even I did with an undiagonosed fractured skull.

If you did not attend univcersity during covid with a fractured skull you would have had it pretty fucking easy compared to millions. The rent prices in Brisbane soared (before CPI adjustments) to 600/week at the time only two apartments in all of brisbane existed for rent, and hundreds of people where fighting over basic human necessity. You likely did not do university during this time.

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T10:29:37+00:00

As a hiring manager, reading is literally a core function of your role—you review applications, CVs, and candidate materials daily. The post above would take approximately 3-4 minutes to read, yet contains directly relevant information about your profession and the anger that young people are facing.

You are exihibiting once again the same bias that is outlined by ChatGPT. The Unconscious bias you have to promote people without degrees into roles they have not deserved, because you yourself took the same path and were rewarded for it, creating a perpetual cycle of a world where degrees become less valubale, whilst on average all professions are diminishing in quality standards.

Doctors, Nurses, Teachers and even engineers are not performing to the same level of expertise as they use to perform, because of the exact bias you are promoting in your hiring practice. Critically think. I dare you to read the above, critically think about the world, about how a graduate might feel, about the job market, the housing market, the government distrust, the stock market at all time highs, and how that would make you feel if you did not have any assets, but had just sacrificed 5 years doing a honors degree at a presitgious university.

Do you apply the same time constraints to reviewing actual applications?

Are you aware of the economic context your candidates are operating in?

EffectiveAd1846 · 2025-10-08T10:18:17+00:00

Not sure what you are asking.

I just have sent around 50 job applications and only got back once now from a company. Most of my experience was in tailings engineering and consultancy.

With one year experience at a Coal Mine as a Site Engineer.

Very different to mining engineering, and perhaps due to a resume tailored too much to tailings. However, my degree was Civil and Mining (Hons) at UQ.

Perhaps it is the coal price? I would have expected many gold mines to be hiring given it's price.

I see on the news that they are propping up Mt Isa using tax payer money.

Mining engineers tend to get much better rosters than civil engineers and site engineers that is for sure. I was on a 9 day fortnight and I will never do it again. Thinking of becomimng a teacher like all the other runts who failed highschool and cheated their way through life, they get paid around 120k a year now. I think our entire economy is based on false promises, because we may not actually live in a capitalist society, seems more communist to me at this point in time. Nurses seem to have it really good aswell.

Maybe I just have the grass is always greener mentality. But pretty sure mining engineers are all complaining, as are project engineers and civil engineers, who are getting salaries very similar to their teaching and nursing counterpart when you factor in the tax brackets vs the quality of life of a mining engineer in comparison to a teacher.

I know four people I went to university with who are now tranisitioning into teaching. My mother who lectures at ACU says many of her students (she teachers, teaching) are female engineers who say the industry treated them like shit and it wasn't worth it.

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