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A working holiday in Australia - Is it possible? In a word: Absolutely. There are some conditions of course as far as visa requirements, as you would expect. Some of which include the following guidlines: you must be between the ages of 18 and 30; you can only apply for casual or part time positions; you may not bring dependent children with you; you cannot be employed by the same employer for more than 6 mths; you cannot study a course for more than 4 months. Other regulations involve your country of origin and your level of education. Having successfully gained your working holiday visa I can assure you that there is plenty of employment for you to have a working holiday around Australia. There are literally thousands of jobs available; you just have to look a little. Although I work from my laptop as I travel around Australia, the sheer number of jobs on offer is mind boggling. I am not even looking for work, I just hear about them from people in caravan parks, at laundrettes, at the local cafe, on a Whitsunday cruise boat, the pizza shop, Information Centres, and just by walking down the street and seeing signs in the windows for ‘staff wanted’. I guess by now you are wondering what these jobs are that can provide you with employment for your working holiday in Australia. Here are some examples: Various cities host the different rounds of the V8 Supercars and at every event there is an influx of visitors to the area needing service in areas of hospitality, accommodation, rental cars etc. This generates a spike of employment vacancies, so you can be assured that local businesses will need more workers such as catering staff, cleaning staff, bar staff, equipment operators and offsiders (helpers), traffic controllers, car park attendants, tour booking staff etc. Another classic example was when I met an Aussie gentleman at a local laundrette who told me he had been travelling around Australia on a working holiday for 20 years! He told me he had never been out of work and have me this hot tip: “The party hire companies are the best because you get to take the leftovers home, so you get free food!” He also said he got to take home the left over beverages as well, and enjoyed many a good party after work. It was a great conversation, and he went on to tell me about some of the more unusual jobs he had done on his extended working holiday around Australia. He had worked on a dairy farm, a cattle station, as a fencing contractor, a handyman doing basic painting and repair jobs, grader and tractor driver, as a cook on a sheep station, and as a machinery assistant in the mines around Queensland and Western Australia. I also met a lovely couple in Gin Gin, Queensland who were working on a local mandarin farm picking the fruit. They had their holiday planned and were working for a total of 3 months (6 days per week) before taking the rest of the year off to travel around Australia. They earned $2000 per week between them. Another chap I met at Maleny, Queensland in July, was living in his caravan and working on a nearby strawberry farm and had plans to travel on to Woolgoolga in NSW to pick blueberries. His working holiday tip was: “oranges and apples are too heavy for us older guys” These are just a couple of examples of what working opportunities there are for your holiday in Australia. There are obviously many more around the country which offer everything from city bar tending to outback station work. Please visit my website for more information on a working holiday - Australia.
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