Can't get my iPad to play movies for some reason, just gotta sit back and watch the rods go round and round and round, bored shitless.

 My main oil and gas client has clamped up, just trickle of work from them. So having to hunt for work in other areas. It'll get worse before it gets better.

 I deliver concrete. I have had a 30% decline since November. ...

Just been made redundant, looking for another mining job !

Definitely not as many wall splits being sold this summer. I know a few company's are having record low sales and installs. Im glad 70% of my work is ducted sold during sign-up for builders.
People don't want to part with the $$ this summer.

 Dunno, i cant manage a day off. Hectic in the shopfit/bank jobs!

 I work for an offshore drilling company, in Supply Chain and you can always tell when there is a slow down when the companies that you stopped using due to shit service call up and want to know why you are no longer ordering from them.

It is amazing that when it is busy, a company that we had a $1m account with became rubbish. We stopped using them and it took 6 months for them to call and find out what is wrong?

re-sent the complaint emails from mid year and they try to fix things.

The worst thing a supplier can do is make you look elsewhere, and find someone who needs you on their books...

 Being a bottom feeder and selling coffee for a living is going well. Peeps won't think about not having their morning wake up hit.... Yet they'll think twice about spending on bigger items.Get em hooked on good coffee n great service makes for win win situation.

Yeah our  company has just downsized a fair bit and going back to our bread and butter jobs rather than the big projects that have all seemed to slow down over the last year.
The tenders all seem to be starting to come out again now though and people are starting to build again so I don't think it'll be long before the construction around Perth picks right up again

 Could see the decline happening so dropped the mining construction side and hopped over into specialised maintenance. Only 2 of us on site and the client doesn't know how to do our job so should be safe for a few years until things fire up again. 2 and 2 roster will make it a bit easier to get some fishing in and should really finish sorting the backyard out after years of working solid.

we got put on 7hrs a day but might get worse yet think a career change might be in order

 spent some time in mine yesterday. Ended up drinking waaay too much. Long story short the steak sammies I cooked at one o clock this morning tasted mighty fine ( everything is always a little better when you're a little toasted ) Wife took great pleasure in waking me up this morning to ask me how my late night cook up was... Hangover surprisingly good. Now where's brekkie?

 I'm seeing more and more guys going for the same positions in OH&S these days as redundancies hit. Safety and Training departments always get culled first because they don't make companies any money, they're just a nice to have, but when push comes to shove, bye bye safety and training. I'm probably averaging 2 weeks work a month. 

Medical research is a brutal profession to begin with and its only getting harder.

The majority of our money/funding comes from a federal government funding body called the NHMRC and in 2014 the national success rate for obtaining funding was 16.5%. If you are one of the lucky ones this funding generally lasts 3 years, yet you still have to apply each year to keep the lab afloat. For this reason most reasearchers have job security 3 years at a time. Scary thought when your a PhD student considering whether to dedicate your lifes work to medical research.

Im lucky enough to be in a successfull lab due to a few big names here but that still doesnt make it easy... work doesnt stop when you get home so your constantly working and the total cost of my annual scholarship is less than what my brother earns in 10 weeks on the mines.

 Working in civil construction we are not too badly placed at the moment. With MRWA being our biggest client there is always work coming out to tender on, then it is on us to win it. Nicely placed on the Kwinana Fwy widening at the moment and that will keep us safe until June at least, then hopefully going straight onto Mitchell Fwy extension if all goes well!

However have a few mates working for LOR and just got made rudundant up at Joy Hill - but that is more Samsungs / LOR's fault than the market at the mo! 

How far north is the freeway extension going to get to?

Only the tip of the iceberg - our office sent all their small admin work to be handled offshore (phillipines) - thank goodness I only have 10 months before early retirement I really feel for those with a mortgage - scarey times that is for sure !   

Last year was the worst for me in 20 years of bussiness . 3 years ago you couldn't rent a factory in Bayswater, now they are empty and rent rates are being reduced to try and get people into them.

I get 90% of my work from one client, there were 5 fabricators involved and now i'm the only one left. They all shut the doors and sold up.

I nearly packed it in myself but when the work started to come in ( nov 2014 ) I ended up having to fill the void from the other fabricators and am flat out again.

I dont understand why the economy has to be such a rollercoaster ride. It dosent seem to matter who is in government none of them can get it right. Australia should be in a great possition and have a steady economy for all, but is seems the polititions are the only ones who make a good living .

 Im in need off an advamced scaffy but also needs to be mechanicaly minded and happy to jump on a broom if asked to

http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/companies/mining-giant-rio-tinto-orders-wage-review-extends-hiring-freeze-as-iron-ore-price-crunch-hits/story-fnkjk9ku-1227216387178?sv=aba30271d25c0ba4f39574442033a91d

 BP have announced today some 160 jobs being cut at Kwinana Refinery.

 The lower the $ drops the busier i get , hope it drops to 75c then i will start making more $. Got made redundant 4 yrs ago when our $ was 1.10 to US 1.00 Set up my own buisness straight away and have ridden out the bad yrs now to start making $ again.

Haven't noticed much change in our workload in the construction industry here in perth. Being fair and not being picky and choosey has paid dividends. Hopefully it continues

Im also out in the middle of the ocean on a rig searching for oil and gas and things are really hitting home with us. The 2nd largest drilling contractor in the world and we are parking rigs up all over the joint and cutbacks happening on a daily basis. best of luck to all you lads out there in the same situations, i reckon we are all going to need it, no matter what you do to earn a crust.

The last 3-4 months I've been getting a phone call or email a week about companies wanting me to work for them doing FIFO electrical work again and it's hasnt slowed down at all for me at any of the companies I've been working with, obviously slow patches between projects but a steady stream of wor they can't fill the places with fast enough really. 

 Its been happening for years! Everything is going offshore. I too am in oil and gas and am completely flabbergasted at what is going on. But "I" will not make difference. The government has farked us all over and wil continue to do so.

No Ticket No Heart!

Chear up boys, the worst is yet to come!

Roy hill has taken a big slap in the face according to the west aust news paper the other day, it appears that the safety on the site is real bad. I guess as has been stated above, first thing to go when things are tight is OH&S and then peoples lives are put at risk.
Some cost saving.

 A couple of years back when a person was killed at a FMG site, they turned around and sacked the safety dept. Talk about a knee jerk reaction.

 My entire work crew has been let go,

I am last man standing due to being on compo still, 

Company won a major job , but will be fifo their own guys from down south.......

Try being in a same job for over 28 years,get treated like shit on the last 4 ,because they want to get rid of you so they don't have to pay redundancy then finding out you need a new knee because you wore the old one out,forced to quit.Now unemployed for 2 & half years 56yo artificial knee and no one wants to know you.
YEP!life easy.
Just a tip don't get old!

here in the south west. If anyone knows a GOOD domestic irrigation installer we can use one.

 Oh btw ayone needs a good steel  fabricator 

its just part of the cycle - Australia always lags the world, US is coming out of the hole - we are going into it, things will get worse, interest rates will be cut again - possibly twice but 2017 things will pick up markedly again -

20 years in the foreign exchange market and things have never been tougher - not because of the economy (volatility is good for us) but technology is replacing us - evolve or end up on the scrap heap..... i am not bad with retic....... and dont mind the south west either! ..... :-)

 O&G will pick up again in 2016. We are bidding on a lot of new work, going into 17 and 18. 

Hopefully our company gets the work or I will be redundo in three months...

 Just had to lay a few guys off the other day...maintenance side of the business still cruising along however. Landscaping that is.

We have some of the biggest resource fields in the world, be it iron ore or gas yet we go grovelling to companies to develop them.
Most other countries have the approach of yep there is the resource, if you want to develop it and make a squillion dollars this is the deal. You will pay ex dollars in royalties, in the case of gas some of it is reserved for the use of our countries citizens and they will pay ex dollars as the resource belongs to them, and you are not going to rip them of.
Workers for the project will be our citizens, full stop.
If they haven't got the skills required the gov or industry will pay for them to be trained up to speed, project management can be who the developer wants.
If you don't like it the "stuff" gas or iron ore stays where it is.
IMO the government (all shades) don't have the skills to drive a hard bargain for the benefit of our country.

 I have been doing some work for an Austrian company who make Jack Up Maintenance Platforms that attach to the legs and use their own power systems to drive up and down replacing anodes, blasting and painting and also leg extensions. With the price of oil dropping like an elevator with a broken wire there just is no work what so ever. They can only find so much work for them in the factory. What's going to happen when the oil price drops to $20 as Citibank is predicting????

Cant seem to get past 457 visa HR and construction workers

Oil price will turn around by the end of the year, it's just politicking by The Cartel (OPEC) Drives out the higher cost producers,(like shale oil) restores their share. Same with iron ore, Rio and BHP (more Rio) are going balls to the wall to produce and kill off competition . Unfortunately this strategy has coincided with a drop in chinese demand, but they seem determined not to blink. Really, REALLY tightening up on costs, thought (and told) it was done and dusted by the middle of last year, but feel there are now more redundancies coming. It , too will turn around--not back to the stupid prices of the previous couple of years', but to where they will feel more comfortable. FMG must really be feeling the heat--last time the price temporarily dropped to around $80/tonne, they hit the panic button. Their cost of production FOB is now down to $54/tonne (from $78) but they have a lot of debt just over the horizon.
Remember that the dropping dollar has given a lot of relief to these exporting companies, as well as the reduced freight costs due to drop in bunker oil prices. Consumer sentiment indexes show a lack of consumer confidence, which just reflects in 'discretionary" spending. People are paying down their debt instead, which is wise, but doesn't help the general economy.

And after all the above, why am I seeing so many $80-$100 K boats being bought :-), and people buying $2K fishfinders?

I'm also in the O&G game and can see the next couple years being very tough in Aus. Our operation has been shut down and I'm relocating back to Dubai in the next couple months.

In any case, this down turn in oil price will probably give our local market the clean out its needed for a while.

Like others, I was made redundant as well just before Christmas. Whole IT department in Perth was off shored to Asia, along with my role (IT Manager)

Now looking for a new job, but job market is not the best at present.

I'm going to show a bit of ignorance about how the economy works so if I'm looking at the current job situation in real simple terms please give me a bit of slack, here goes.

If companies lay off lots of workers to keep profitability up, those laid of workers don't have a lot of funds for spending on goodies. We don't buy the toys anymore.

Companies don't need to make lots of toys for the boys, lay off workers

Back to para 2

How do you break this cycle.

 In reality, the government needs to make imports a less feasible option. When I can buy steel in Singapore for 1/3 of the price of local, what do you expect me to do. The country will one day be a nation of freight forwarders and customs agents...

saw on a current affair tonight a house in Headland that sold for 1.4 mill 4 years ago was passed in at auction at 360k on the weekend , that's a big haircut in any ones terms , my mate bought in headland 3 years ago paid 1 mill and is now clamping his arse checks together

Be a government private special security contractor and with the current events your never out of work

It's a sad indictment of our times but you are so right, what a sorry state of affairs we are living in.

 Economy is stuffed cause 30-40% of income is tied up in bricks and mortar.. Banks making a killing. Everyone else is scratching to meet the interest rate on their mortgage. Government is addicted to the stamp duty it makes. Half a million for a house.... When do you have changed to buy goods and services and support small businesses which are the biggest employers in this country.

We flogged off manufacturing and bet everything on mining and don't have much to show for it. Big corporations have skinned us.

My personal opinion is that when unemployment gets worse (this is the start) the highly leveraged will loose their shirts.

Mining not going to well in WA, back two years ago 1500 people were moving here a week and now they are competing for an ever diminishing pool of jobs. All about changing rosters and pay cuts now.

Rant over

The one bonus with my job is that there will always be kids coming to school. Not the greatest pay, but good holidays and a few other perks.

Big John your looking after the next generation

Alot of this talk seems to be about the resources industry and presumably mostly fifo workers. Now dont get me wrong you guys works damn hard for the big bucks with long hrs in tough places with long periods away from the family. My old man has done it for decades. The question is,if the resource industry goes belly up how many of you would be willing to go back to a job in Perth on 60-80 grand a year? An average Aussie wage. Could you do it? Or has spending gottten out of control? This is what some people will have to ask themselves if the going gets tough.

 I would Jason, I'm trying for one now, but so is a lot of others.

 If you are going to do fifo and sacrifice the family life you want to have somthing to show for it ( pay off the house, get some savings or hell, even a nice new boat) But it seems alot of people piss it up and start spending like theres no tomorrow and when they are laid off its panic stations with big debts and no way to sort their shit on anything like an average wage. Dents the pride a bit to not be able to afford that new  HSV or Boston Whaler but hey, just gotta wind it back a bit.

 I hope for nothing but good luck for everybody. WA is a great place to live with lots of opportunities and what we call tough times doesnt rate a mention in most countries so if you are doing well, plan a bit for the future. If your not doing the best right now, chin up and keep positive. WA is still doing very well and there will be something out there for you.