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best qualification to make big money in aus after graduation but no experience?

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  • 28-05-2012 6:56am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭


    whats the best qualification to make big money in aus after graduation but no experience?Anyone?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Doctor


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭Sundy


    Right now a geologist or surveyor would get you by.


    Or do you mean in 4/5 years time?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    To make big money you'll need experience or at least a huge amount of studying.
    If you think otherwise you're dreaming.

    But IT & construction are big money if you have right skills.
    Doctor & lawyer also decent money, but need a lot of study


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    hussey wrote: »
    If you think otherwise you're dreaming.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭shadowcomplex


    whats the best qualification to make big money in aus after graduation but no experience?Anyone?

    Yea , was just wondering , I've a degree in analytical chemistry and at 34 it's too late for me to retrain , i work in a qc lab, a friend of mine is a environmental geologist , making a bomb over there , he w
    As on 33k sterling in England got transferred over in feb, they trebled his salary and he gets free flights home twice a year, he told at that he's on the low end of the salary scale for his position


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  • Registered Users Posts: 387 ✭✭karl bracken


    Running a brothel is legal, pretty good money and perks in that lol


  • Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭NoelAPM


    whats the best qualification to make big money in aus after graduation but no experience?Anyone?

    Heavy Diesel mechanic :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭colman1212


    IT contract work pays extremely well is OZ at the mo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,506 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Cold fusion reactor engineer, you have the bonus income from royalties from having invented the technology whilst doing the degree.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    colman1212 wrote: »
    IT contract work pays extremely well is OZ at the mo.
    Only for experienced, but yeah contract IT work is paying big bucks


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    Just wondering if $35 an hour is below the average for contracting in I.T support roles?


  • Registered Users Posts: 812 ✭✭✭rightyabe


    Im working as a concrete finisher constructing mine site camps and bases for power plants etc earning $55p/h for the first 8, time and a half for the next 2, and double for the next 2 again, working on average 11.5 hours a day, earning pretty good money with no qualifications. Formwork Carpenters are on $60 p/h with their qualifications.

    My other half is on the same mine site working in admin earning $35p/h, she to has no relevant qualifications.

    Speaking to people here any geology or mine/civil engineer graduates could walk into a $100,000 a year job if they get lucky.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    zweton wrote: »
    Just wondering if $35 an hour is below the average for contracting in I.T support roles?

    Define support?
    Depends what you do but 35 seems low


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    Basic AD, exchange, MS Office Support, Win 7 Support...


  • Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭menuisier


    zweton wrote: »
    Basic AD, exchange, MS Office Support, Win 7 Support...

    Going by seek it seems to be on the high end. I will be looking for the same sort of role but have a little bit of server experience, VPN, Citrix, fax server admin etc no acutal certs tho can I realistically hope for more then 35, over 4 years in IT now.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,018 ✭✭✭✭jank


    To me it seems low but then again its on the low end of the scale in terms of what you are actually doing. What is your experience in IT? If you can do more as in you are experienced in more then you can get more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn


    Gynaecologist

    Not being smart. They are paid very well.


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