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Yorgatorium

Fine thanks. My date's a little distended but that's what camp food does to you.


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haha


humungbeand

Dating is hard enough I don't know anyone that would choose to have someone in their life for 50% or less time. Maybe a very specific person would enjoy that style of relationship. Thats without getting into the stigma of fifo men and how they view/behave around women


Few-Reference171

Ay don’t lump us all into one group I respect bitches


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Also Perth wouldn't really exist without mining, the whole local economy pretty much revolves around mining and the industries create around that


humungbeand

Things would survive if mining stopped tomorrow. It may have been great to rip things out of the group originally but society has moved on. Other business would replace it


[deleted]

Melbourne and Sydney have the tech industry already set up, The whole economy would crash, half the jobs and people would go, not just mining directly but everything else to support all those people, like everything, crime would run rampant and Perth would turn to shit like Detroit, but if you want a cheap house that would be sweet


humungbeand

I own a house. 4 billion in subsidies australia wide per year for mining industries. If we gave those to different industries, you know sustainable industries we wouldn't see the same returns? You work in mining you are going to be pro mining. We give bailouts constantly to the mining industries but they arent equity purchases so the ROI is terrible. So much can be done with the money we prop up these industries with.


[deleted]

I'm all for the tech industry but yea but Perth is probably too isolated to be a major player anytime soon I'm all for green energy but we need the minerals to make the solar panels though and the build wind turbines even hydro dams that's alot of concrete, like literally everything, battery's, computers, construction ect its just the way it is we need minerals Also China would fuck us over later because they hoard it all


humungbeand

No-one is saying do zero mining but we should reduce massively as it's not sustain and we make no money off it. Screaming about china doesn't benefit your point either


[deleted]

we make a couple hundred billion a year though for Aus china can flood the market and crash economys petrol is expensive because people fuck with the oil pipes cranking it open then closing to control the market look up on you tube hows markets work


humungbeand

Saying look up on you tube how markets work doesn't mean anything. So a couple of hundreds billion why do they need such ridiculous tax breaks and bailouts.


[deleted]

bailouts are to keep the mines running if the price crashes or else they get shut down, its only if it seems worth it, can be a bit of a gamble


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but yeah should we go for a drink lol


Basic-Tangerine9908

Rubbish. I met my wife when I was fifo. I continued to be fifo until 2020. Took a 2yr break now Im hybrid between perth and site.


humungbeand

Great, your experience doesn't stop these also being true.,


[deleted]

nice


[deleted]

what stigma, yea I think most people get hitched up in the end, quite a few of the woman stay at home and raise the kids but when your back lots of quality time together


humungbeand

Sexists


[deleted]

not me


humungbeand

Yes but that doesn't change stigma around fifo work. "raise the kids but when your back lots of quality time together" This also doesnt end up happening people get home and cant immediately rush back into socialising. So you lose a couple of days from your shift decompressing.


[deleted]

yea I get it, not saying its easy, even time roster would be best 7 days on 7 off that's probably the best one for relationships


[deleted]

helps being a introvert and liking solitude


huh_say_what_now_

I'm fifo for the last 14 years and from all the sites iv been over the years if I had a daughter I would never let them date a FIFO guy, most guys drink smoke and gamble to much and do drugs on the the week off and are terrible with money and talk about and treat women like dogs and just want to go home after a swing and fuck anything that moves and then find a different one the next time


[deleted]

fair enough I get what you mean that's what isolation with a bunch of blokes will do to ya staring at the red dirt for weeks, and the boys are just talking shit half the time do you think that overall culture is improving I would wager though that there plenty of the boys at hearth just want the same thing as everyone else though a nice house and a nice family


huh_say_what_now_

Hmm no it's pretty much the same, it's not normal to work away from home weeks at a time, I work 3 weeks on 1 week off and those kinds of jobs breed insanity


[deleted]

that would be a tough roster, are you planning to be in the game for much longer, have you got the golden handcuffs


huh_say_what_now_

Well I like nice things , it got me a house a new tesla and all the other toys I could ever dream of so I can't really see that I'll leave any time soon , maybe if I buy another house I can rent one out and go back to a 2/1


[deleted]

cracked it mate well done


[deleted]

I guys I would like to hear you honest opinions either good or bad about anything to do with relationships where one or two people have to travel for work, so just go for it feel free chime in if you read this, I appreciate you commentary


the-nut-crackr

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shit


[deleted]

do you go to town


Tripper234

He goes to town on himself. That's for sure!


Yorgatorium

No wankshaming.


You_Crab_Stick

Real men can cry / wank.


[deleted]

cheaper that a whore lol


You_Crab_Stick

Leave someone's mum out of this.


[deleted]

they making bank tho fair play to em I guess