I know a lot of you work in IT so thought I Would throw something up here just incase anyone knows of anything going. Experienced Sysadmin in a finacial institution (running about 130 servers at headoffice and same at DR).

Bachelor of IT (computer software development) and Dip of IT.
Training in IBM Lotus Domino, MS SQL 2000, Citrix, Checkpoint Firewall Security (provided by DiData)
Run a variety of systems but a lot of virtualisation (Using VMWare ESX clusters with EMC SAN backend), Veritas Netbackup (and VCB for virtual machines), Windows 2000-2008, AD 200-2008 etc etc

Not looking for stupid money or anything probably around the 50-60k mark and I would be happy. Just looking to make the move to Brisbane :) Let me know if you know of anything .. cheers.

Not looking for stupid money!! Man I've only got a cert IV and a Diploma of IT in network engineering, doing desktop support and basic sysadmin work, and I'm on 50K. With your quals and xp I'm sure you could get paid quite a bit more.

I'm willing to take money around that region for a job. Managing a user environment of over 1000 machines at the moment over WAN throughout all our branch network etc pretty much australia wide.

I think it's more a matter of needing a job rather than looking to maximise his salary at this stage. Now is *really* not a good time to be looking for work and I feel really sorry for all those poor bastards out of work, through no fault of their own.

Of course, if you're out of work and it IS your own fault, then suck it up :P

http://whirlpool.net.au/jobs/ is a good place to keep your eye on.

Yeah been checking out career one, seek and whingepool :)

I'm currently employed an the company I work for just posted a 16% growth on the same time last year so my job here is secure if I want to stay.

last edited by -=CluBCaT=- at 11:36:08 16/Feb/09

Out of curiosity where are you based now?

Toowoomba at the moment. It is just a life style change I am looking for hence why the money doesn't mean that much.

Now is *really* not a good time to be looking for work and I feel really sorry for all those poor bastards out of work, through no fault of their own.

Give me a week and I wont have a job.......AWESOMENESS!

Its gonna be hard finding work at the moment, my suggestion to you is if you have a stable job getting payed ok, then stay where you are for the time being.

I.T is REALY tight in brisbane at the moment, and even if you get a job, you might not have it in 6 months. I was made redundant just over a month ago, I found a job in 3 days, but I think i was just lucky. Heaps of people have been made redundant at the place I used to work.

You dont work for suncorp do you?

Lol no not for suncorp. They already removed most their project management etc I believe.

Yep lots of people have been cut at suncorp.

It's a good time to be a student.

it's never a good time to be a student, studying is s***

agreed I don't think I Could be a student again.

it's never a good time to be a student, studying is s***

sif. two months of study, ten months of holidays. add to that $400 a fortnight for doing nothing and you get the cruiseiest lifestyle ever.

$400 a fortnite wouldnt cover my first weekend

i need cash to have a good time

Pretty much. Being a student sucks hard. Glad I only got 12 months left.

i need cash to have a good time

get a job? 150x2 + 400 = 700, enough fun for anyone, unless you need prosties.

That whirlpool link is a good one, I never thought of looking there.

I've been in the job market for a couple of months now and can't believe how little luck I'm having.

Thinking of doing a CompTIA A+ course to get a piece of paper to prove I can do stuff I already know how to do and going to look for technician work. Fixing things is fun.

I think when you have a IT diploma and 5 year of retail exp and you keep getting rejected from Dick Smith and Harvey Norman it's very sad indeed :( Perhaps they don't believe me when I say I would rather work retail than doing an IT job behind a desk and think I'll leave as soon as a programming job comes along. Shame I was telling the truth about that.

150x2 + 400 = 700

Tell me how this maths works, good sir.

150 bucks a week at a casual job, 200 a week on the kevin rudd surf team, equals a total of 700 a fortnight

I think its $150/w rent help bulls***. It is plenty of money to live on and some left over to have some fun.

typical student logic.

Yep lots of people have been cut at suncorp.

More cuts coming this Friday I believe. A lot of experiencing guys getting let loose onto the market atm...

sif. two months of study, ten months of holidays. add to that $400 a fortnight for doing nothing and you get the cruiseiest lifestyle ever.

yeah $200 a week

you're f***in living it up mate

goon + lemonade ftw i hear on $200 a week

If you live at home and have no expenses $200 a week ain't that bad. It's more play money than I have every week :(

who the f*** lives at home with no expenses....
what about: board, phone bills, petrol, car insurance, rego...

$200 a week wouldn't even buy a quarter of a study desk, pathetic

thats y heaps of uni students are dealers :P

who the f*** lives at home with no expenses....
what about: board, phone bills, petrol, car insurance, rego...

Me, I have a pre-pay phone to pay for, and petrol and that's it.

I often think about killing myself though.

I get $200 a week from Newstart and it's f*** all, I would not want to live on that for three years while studying. I was fine living on that when I lived on a mountain in the middle of no-where and had nothing to spend it on but beer, but here in the city where there are places to go and things to buy it sucks.

$200 a week = petrol and a half

u could barely survive i spose.....

Back in my late teens I was only earning about $180/wk yet I lived like a f***ing KING! Share houses, parties, booze, city .. living the dream.

150 bucks a week at a casual job, 200 a week on the kevin rudd surf team, equals a total of 700 a fortnight

that's it.

come on, if you can't live at home on 350 dorrah a week you must be some kind of cristal sipping royal. sure, i wouldn't turn down an iPhone or something better than an old camry, but i don't really feel the need to go any better atm as the chillin lifestyle just can't be beat.

$200 a week = petrol and a half u could barely survive i spose.....

how do ya clock so many k's in a week?

even if i go down the coast three times in a week, i wouldn't use more than $100...

I think I'm going to be in the same boat as clubcat, want to leave Europe and go back to Australia. Sydney preferably. Seek definitely doesnt look as populated as it used to couple of years back.

heritage building society??

typical student logic.

Nothing wrong with being happy with what you have. Mr-I-am-a-rich-f***.

This one is simple...why would you want to leave CBA? Great working conditions and I love my job...most days!

Nothing wrong with being happy with what you have. Mr-I-am-a-rich-f***.

there's nothing wrong with either way; some people chose to live a comfortable life with the house and 2.3 kids, some people want money / fame / power whatever

Not looking for stupid money or anything probably around the 50-60k mark and I would be happy.

dude.. I have no quals what so ever and I am on twice that...


the only advice I can give is: live and breath what you do. Allow others to make you look like a God behind the keyboard. Never, ever take on an apprentice... in this industry people either make it happen all by themselves or they don't. I just wasted 10 years of my life trying to change that - I failed.


while there is no 'I' in team.. however, "I" am the guy on staff who is being paid properly because I put the effort in.


I hope this helps

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Spidz: Yeah currently at HBS.

Koopz: I love what I do and am pretty decent at it I think, always at work early and nearly always late to leave they had to force me to take 5 weeks off last year so I was under the 25 days annual leave policy.

Just looking for work... got a few job apps in for a few gov jobs but not sure about if I want to contract or not till I find something more perm.

not sure if its mentioned in the previous posts. but wouldnt you be best to leave out the 'looking for a job to get me into brisbane'

kinda sounds like it will be purely a stepping stone and the long term value of employing you would be unprofitable.

this may be all true but IMO it isnt something an employer would want to hear.

Nah not like that at all. My references are more than happy to testify to that (my current bosses etc).

Was employed here on not much money as a Sysadmin and stuck around, if I enjoy what I'm doing I don't care about the money as long as I can live on it. I'm sure it's the same for a number of people in IT, they just enjoy what they do.

heh, heritage:

ive seen your data, we print your statements :)

:O .. insider trading!

I think when you have a IT diploma and 5 year of retail exp and you keep getting rejected from Dick Smith and Harvey Norman it's very sad indeed :( Perhaps they don't believe me when I say I would rather work retail than doing an IT job behind a desk and think I'll leave as soon as a programming job comes along. Shame I was telling the truth about that.

Dude, maybe you suck at interviews? Or you're not saying what they want you to say?

Try the bigger computer stores perhaps? Umart, MSY, Computer Alliance? Officeworks (I worked there for 4 years).

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Yeah I worked TheDiscShop for a few years as a tech in Toowoomba.

I used to be awesome at interviews, I got every job I ever went for until now, so who knows. Maybe I've lost it? Or maybe it's just more competitive.

Those are good suggestiong, but all in QLD ;) However Office Works is a good idea, I hadn't even thought of them. Thanks.

Perhaps they don't believe me when I say I would rather work retail than doing an IT job behind a desk and think I'll leave as soon as a programming job comes along. Shame I was telling the truth about that.

They absolutely do not believe you. Turnover is one of the biggest annoyances in managing retail stores. Recruitment is as much about risk assessment of the candidate's likelihhod to stick around as it is about getting the best person.

They'd rather get someone who will work hard but can't do 'better' than go for a very qualified person who might be just finding a haven during the economic wonkiness.

Nothing wrong with being happy with what you have.

Can you make yourself sound any more angsty? Enjoy your $200 a week.

They'd rather get someone who will work hard but can't do 'better' than go for a very qualified person who might be just finding a haven during the economic wonkiness.

this depends on the employee..


years ago when I first joined this forum the average IT company was lucky find good help.. (ie - the average Qgl member). I don't think this has changed that much. Quals didn't change this at the retail level, and from what my brothers tell me at the Fed Govt level, it's the same.


good help is hard to find. every business wants employees who are smart enough to go and make their own enterprise a reality. that will never change regardless of industry I believe.

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Ticman, when I first started in IT as a Cadet Programmer in 1979 I was earning $5900 a year or $92 a week in the hand. Programmmers were on 14K to 16K and System Analysts earnt a whopping 18K and Management were on like 26K. Huge amounts of money back then.

The 80's changed all that real quick. By the end of the 80's I was earning over a 100k and yet it didn't seem to go as far as 26k did back in 1979.

Doesn't that mean you are a wasteful f***?

No, it means I had a mortgage, married and the start of a family.

not everyone can get by on $200 a week bats***

I think its $150/w rent help bulls***. It is plenty of money to live on and some left over to have some fun.

That'll change real quick when you're all grown up. I was able to get by with the same amount in my late teen and early 20's but all that changed when I have a real job and real expenses.