Maybe tree planting

I’ve been in Australia for nearly three and a half months now have seen pretty much the whole East Coast except for Sydney. Even though I’ve only spend a little over half of my savings so far, I’ve started job searching. It’s going to be winter soon and I’d rather work in the winter and continue traveling next spring.

My job searching was pretty easy, I googled “treeplanting in Australia” and found a company that plants in New South Wales and is looking for planters for their May-August contracts. Tree planters in Australia plant in much nicer land than what I planted on a couple of summers ago in Timmins and also get paid more. So I’ve been in contact with them over email and it looks like I’ve got a job for the next four months. The boss rents out houses in the town (I forgot the name, it’s in an email) and only charges his planters $280/month rent. They supply all your planting equipment but you have to buy your own food and I’m going to have to buy some steeled toed boots and all that stuff.

I haven’t worked since January, so I’m looking forward to working and seeing the bank account go up instead of down. They said the average planter makes about $300/day and top planters make upwards of $450/day. I have no idea if that’s true or not, but we plant 7 days/week so I’m sure I can make some good coin.

I’ll write more about this tree planting business once I get more information, but I just wanted to give you guys a heads up. I told Brent and Phil about me maybe moving away for four months and they were pretty shattered. It’s great fun living with them in Redcliffe, but there’s no way I could make as much money in so little time if I got a job here.