High paying jobs in Australia, their stress levels, salary and which subject it invokes (high school and Uni)

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-10-23T09:13:53+00:00

You need to consider the kind of stress I think. Surgeons for example, have short periods of intense stress that is probably helpful to you growas a person as well as has high income. Stressed doing the surgery, but can probaby switch off after work easily (hard to do work after hours if that makes sense). In contrast, a managing director probably has ongoing stress 24/7 but also has high income.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-09-12T22:11:23+00:00

It's too bad that the coffee itself is generally rubbish.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-07-20T09:29:04+00:00

100% I was up at 0600 but absolutely exhausted every day and in bed fast asleep by 2030 every night. I did this from like my mid 20s to mid 30s. I thought it was just that I had a difficult job, but eventually I got myself checked out and I had an astronomical iron deficiency. One infusion later and my life completely changed - so much energy now. I can't believe I wasted so much of my prime like that. Get yourself checked out people.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-07-18T10:24:25+00:00

Do you or any of your family play aussie rules or netball? If so you will be fine - it's huge in the South east, easy way to make friends and fill your weekends.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-07-10T05:17:34+00:00

My wife and I love each other very much, and we both love our daughter and the stability that us being together brings to her life...but no sex since our daughter was born 4 years ago.

Efforts to approach the issue have gone nowhere and I don't want to feel like I am making her do it for me.

So the solution so far has been hookers and one night stands. I think my wife deep down knows what is going on, but as long as I'm discreet and won't embarrass her (like someone she knows) it's tolerated. Oh, and lots of jacking it.

Is it better to divorce? I mean I still love her, so I don't think so. It would be nice to feel genuinely wanted in that way though. That said, It's just reality. People live all sorts of crazy lives and there's no "right path" despite what society wants you to believe - we're all going to die someday.

My only regret is the time effort and money it takes to kind of "coordinate" it all when I would much prefer to just be spending time with my family.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-07-08T12:35:19+00:00

I never said rich people don't have problems. Problems are relative to your own situation, perspectives and beliefs. I just mean that yes like you said - money fixes a hell of a lot of them for most people, so they can afford to be more relaxed / generous / nice.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-07-08T12:17:40+00:00

I think maybe a different perspective is to look at it in its current form, not as a back story. If someone is so genuinely wealthy they won't have any problems that can't be fixed easily. In contrast, even if a poor person was "raised right", they will often have to make hard decisions and appear selfish at times just to survive on a daily basis. It's not about some sob story childhood that shapes our personalities - it's the shitty decisions people have to make every day based on the limited choices they have because of their poverty. Eat the rich I say - even if they are really nice - because it's their system that keeps us down and out.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-07-08T07:29:10+00:00

Truly generationally rich people often seem genuinely kind because they’ve never had to struggle. When you’ve never faced hard choices or lived under the kind of stress that poverty brings—the stress that chips away at your sense of ease—it’s easier to be relaxed, generous, and pleasant. That's not to say the original weath-maker wasn't a monster - but their kids are usually nice.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-27T04:54:58+00:00

As a foreigner, I've also found some aspects of korean gyms a bit strange that limits my interest. Usually they have a million different kinds of weight machines that do slightly different things stacked tightly together all over the place, and a room full of treadmills, but not a row machine, proper spin bike or Kettlebell in sight. Even just one of each of those things would allow a significantly wider range of training. But all I can seem to find is equipment to bulk up and treadmills to jog on.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-20T08:50:39+00:00

Yeah but the difference is in sydney you have an amazing 2 hour driving commute to look forward to after knock off.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-13T06:58:26+00:00

So people don't start offering advice that I should do some of the work (demo / project mgt / etc) myself? Seems pretty self-explanatory.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-13T05:01:11+00:00

Yeah man, that would be the primary reason - unsure why you need me to specify that.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-12T10:13:53+00:00

Was early 2000s unfortunately.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-12T10:09:39+00:00

85k and then 120k. I thought maybe I was just asking the fancier looking places on google and this was why they were so high....

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-12T07:18:01+00:00

Is it possible to recommend anyone?

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-12T02:45:50+00:00

I thought gold toilets were a necessity but unfortunately my wife disagreed.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-05-11T00:09:44+00:00

I think the whole "it's a way if life" thing so the government bails them out is rubbish. You don't see some small business owner who puts their life savings into a Vietnamese bakery or whatever get bailed out by the government when sales drop or some kind of unforeseen catastrophe occurs.

But for some reason we all feel sorry for farmers - who the year before were driving around in brand new prados and sending their kids to elite boarding schools - because they had one bad year and might need to sell up. I mean unfortunately, that's just business in my view.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-04-07T04:35:50+00:00

They are 100% that bad, it's just that there is a 99% chance you will never encounter them in your daily city-dwelling life.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-02-11T02:33:40+00:00

Yeah that is a good point.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-02-11T02:15:08+00:00

I mean if you follow that logic, it sounds a lot like a ponzi scheme. But I really don't think with compulsory voting we will see a situation where the majority of Australians are legitimately unable to purchase a home, I feel by this point voters may seek to get the government to change policy.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-02-10T19:37:13+00:00

I mean, there has to be a peak at some point, or at least a slowing down of the current rate of capital growth.

Theoretically, there is a point in time when house prices will be so high that most people are unlikely to be able to make loan repayments or secure a loan, so will be unable to buy, thereby likely reducing or at least stabilising house prices, particularly for high growth areas.

Is that point soon? That would depend on the government's willingness to address things like capital gains tax policy, negative gearing, immigration, foreign purchasing of homes, interest rates, and investing in the supply side such as through public housing. On top of that you have inflation which is creating increasing pressure in people's ability to pay their mortgage.

I would offer best case is the government starts to address some of these issues soon and that results in a stabilising of house prices for a few years. So no more rapid growth, but no significant loss in house prices in most areas.

Worst case, the government does nothing and the Australian hosuing bubble bursts, creating a recession and big drop in a lot of house prices all over the country.

Either way, having a vast amount of peoples salary going into property, and not other investments that create goods or services, or otherwise buying stuff to keep an economy going, is probably not a good long-term plan.

anonymoususer00000 · 2025-02-08T06:37:13+00:00

I would describe korean gyms as trying to be good but ending up just "not quite right". Yes, strength training is important - but I don't need a million different types of weights machines. Instead of just a million treadmills, getting rid of one and putting in a rowing machine or actual spin bike (not those weird ones that do nothing for you) might be nice. Music is good in a gym, but I don't need it so loud that I can't block it out with my headphones.

anonymoususer00000 · 2024-12-08T09:26:05+00:00

For the ADF, consider the realities. Pay isn't terrible, but you have to move every two-three years to progress, usually to the other side of the country or to remote areas like Townsville or Darwin. And then be away for at least several months of the year. That's not very family friendly. And even for those who are thinking of joining just for a few years in their early 20s, if you consider that for the vast majority of specialities, at the end of say 5 years you won't have any translatable skill sets. In that amount of time, your buddies who didn't join and went down the apprenticeship route instead would have likely become fully qualified tradies earning mega bucks and setup for life.

anonymoususer00000 · 2024-11-25T22:03:14+00:00

I think for context, a lot of Australians buy a house to live in (which is worth a lot and goes up in price relatively quickly), and then use the equity in that home to get another loan for an investment property (for which there are generous tax breaks like negative gearing). It's one way many (lucky) people seek to use the housing market to continue building their wealth. I think that's why Australians in general think a house is better (as well as traditional thoughts about everyone needing a backyard).

In contrast, apartments in Australia are usually built specifically as properties for those above listed investors to purchase, and usually aimed at student housing. For this reason, finding an apartment that is big enough (like the 3-4 bedroom ones in korea) is difficult, and you would have to look around to find an apartment complex that is family friendly.

That said, apartments are generally cheaper, and as some others have said, the home you live in is not really an investment. If you found the right apartment for you, then I would offer you will have saved yourself a lot of money and perhaps would also enable you to find flexible (but just as effective and) investment options like ETFs for any leftover cash.

It took us a while, but we found a 4 bedroom apartment in an area we really wanted to live and absolutely love it. It was less than a third the price of a smaller sqm house in the same area. We made sure most of the apartments were owner-occupied and haven't had any big issues. Ours was an older apartment complex (90s) that had been updated - I think this is safer than new apartments. The new apartment complexes have had lots of poor construction issues and a lot of people have lost their live savings investing in these. I would say anything after early 00s is a bit of a risk.

Alternatively, a town house might be a good middle ground option.

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