M60
FIFO
January 20 2018
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MsSuperFoxy
8 years ago
So, I will follow this forum with interest. 😊 Ms Foxy
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RHP User
8 years ago
Love FIFO was not expecting, how come apart from the money? - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
What do you love about it? I found it a real challenge to feel settled.
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RHP User
8 years ago
Tho the swings ranged from 6/1 to 2/1.. It was the 80's/90's. Although I was in the catering field then, it still felt liked I was institutionalised to an extent. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
I'm on 2weeks on 2 weeks off . Have been for over 10 years, it's good and bad
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MsSuperFoxy
8 years ago
What I love about it, is seeing/dating someone who is FIFO. For me, I would prefer a FIFO over a local any day. I just like my own space. Prefer a 2:1 over a 4:1. Ms Foxy
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MsSuperFoxy
8 years ago
The bunkers and going back to them at night the small bare rooms and nothing really on site. I can also understand why the suicide rates are as high as they are. Ms Foxy
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RHP User
8 years ago
I was on a mine site and we had to do 16weeks.. BEFORE we could even take holidays.. Since then, I have been part and parcel of the FIFO/DIDO jobs from those days to now.. where one is on even-time.. or LESS.NEVER felt suicidal and do NOT understand the emotion.From day one it was "Do your fucken job and suck it up, or get the fuck back to your farm, Boy" I did my job, sucked it up, and NOW, I OWN my fucken farm..I don't have to work any more, but I do.. because I fucking like the lifestyle, and it keeps me grounded, so when I get home, I am more productive..Love it.
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RHP User
8 years ago
12/1 then it got better. I did 12 at Nifty ONCE. Although was over the xmas break. Only a few crew on site. 'Befriended' a beautiful eagle that time. Fuck he was awesome. Drove across to Tefer too during that time to get some supplies. Hahaha the 80's ey. You just got on with it as Cavey said. Foxy..... Its not so much FIFO that fucks heads. It their real life dramas, from what I've noticed. FIFO also fucks marriages. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
Hi to anyone reading, i have work away most of my life it isn't for everyone in the sense some people they miss there social lives to much, we all miss our families but it is a lot easier to be in contact these days, i remember standing in line for one phone box between 90 guys for hours just to get a 3 minute call, that was tough and if you had a cyclone come through forget it. now a single man the hardest thing now is finding a women who will date a FIFO worker.
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RHP User
8 years ago
I wish you lived over here I think we could get along. I do FIFO 2-1 don't mind it. smaller camps are better than big ones
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RHP User
8 years ago
Well i am planning to go for fifo but havent really thought of love live while away but i think fifo people must be having fun dates on site as well. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
Return fridays mostly.... I get about 24-48hrs off each week...sometimes I’ll be away for 2 weeks straight then come home for the same 24-48 hours... Lifestyles need to be paid for...I love my job and if someone else can’t love me due to my job then we were never meant to be... And by love, I mean all aspects...from platonic relationships, to the casual sex, through to marriage.... - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
I don’t think fifo fucks marriages it more to do with who you are with and what they do when your not there, good people do bad things and bad people do good things, I know lots of people who don’t work away that are divorced, does anyone know the numbers on divorce and how many are people working away.
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73bandit
8 years ago
Money is rubbish food is shit to many noisey pricks next door cleaners constantly waking you up extream heat extream flies way to many dickheads normal sleep ? Yeah not relationships not 14 yrs fifo 6 yrs dido and 4 yrs reso would I change it nope 7 days off now your talking. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
Totally agree FIFO guy over a local any day 2.1 / 8.6 days get my space and someone to look forward too - best of both worlds 😊😜 - Posted from rhpmobile
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Tall74nHard9
8 years ago
OP, at your age you must have gone into it with your eyes open, hopefully. There is always a choice...many go into it for the money, but with the money comes other decisions you have to make about working conditions and lifestyle. Can't have yer cake and .... Tall
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RHP User
8 years ago
I loved doing FIFO and really miss it... but I had a dream roster 4/3, 4/3, 8/6. I'm now residential in the Pilbara, and supposed to work Monday to Friday 6am to 3pm. The reality, however, is very different... I rarely leave work before 5.30pm and I go into work most weekends. FML
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RHP User
8 years ago
dating a fifo worker is the best of both worlds....honeymoon when they are home...own space when they are away...
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RHP User
8 years ago
are high. Its just not a normal life style. It is emotionally hard on dads, husbsnds, mums, wives and kids. It can be financially hard too as prople get use to the income. There are many adjustments for all and it can take its toll. Obviously there are are better ways to comminicate now days. I wish anyone in a FIFO life style all the very best. Its just not my cup of tea. I hear you ladies on the best of both worlds although, I like to be be able to call up a guy/partner and go out or what ever when I want and vise versa. Different strokes for different folks tho 😁 The Pilbara.....Loved it. Was residential too. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
8 years ago
Only know one and he is a great guy We see each other when time allows. No pressure just when ever.
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RHP User
8 years ago
I am surprised at number of responses but it is good that people share the experiences especially the positives - Posted from rhpmobile
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Hawt1
8 years ago
I am a northern local on a fifo roster... I am single and my family all live elsewhere apart from mum, so I get that can't be close to loved ones part. Also it is shit to sort out life's little problems, everything must wait until my week off. Having said that Cavey has it right, with the time off is very productive. I do 3:1 so I spend 3 weeks planning what I want to do with my week off. I love the money, kind of wish I could stay in camp and have everything done for me, there is not a lot of time left in a day doing 12 hours then home to cook clean eat shit sleep repeat, then throw in washing and shopping day. I do get a local living allowance that would equate to the benefit the fifo's would get in camp though (after tax). Man do I pay a lot of tax! On my week off I alternate between heading south to visit lovers and/or family or bush to go prospecting. On the whole pretty happy about everything, one of the best jobs I ever had. I used to be a plasterer, work 6-7 days a week, busting hole for average money. This is much better. I am having the whole of February off, heading south... Hello ladies
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RHP User
8 years ago
I did one whole month many years ago out the Tanami, that was well and truly enough for me. It was hard on the relationship I was in at the time, no kids or anything but it was still hard. What stuck out the most for me though was the amount of chatter I would overhear in the crib room, blokes (mainly) complaining that their wives were giving them grief about having to look after the kids, or they were suspicious of their partners screwing around on them. I would always just think ''no money is worth this''. There were two main types of people in my opinion, those who were there with a singular purpose (to pay off a house usually), they were head-down-bum-up types - didn't fraternize or go drinking themselves into oblivion in the wet mess. They finished work, grabbed a feed to take away from the wet mess and retired to their rooms. The other type were usually young men, they liquefied their livers every night at the wet mess and when on their R&R swing would blow all the money they made on alcohol, drugs, hookers and gambling. They would openly brag of this to each other. Then there was the donga-hopping. For some reason it was village policy that you were not to sleep in any other donga but your own - like they could stop sex going on! Yet it would be funny to watch the comings (pun intended) and goings among partnered/married people at night, scurrying about in the shadows (who would hug and kiss their patners when they got off the plane back in Darwin). To me it was mostly just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I think, for single people - whether you just want to live large (briefly) on your earnings, or get a head start in the property game, it is absolutely fit for this purpose. For those with partners and families, I honestly saw nothing but strain on relationships. ABC did an excellent series about 3 years ago on the benefits and pitfalls of FIFO, if you can find it, it's well worth a watch.
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MsSuperFoxy
8 years ago
Totally get that. I'm in a couple of FB, FIFO groups. The way some of the wives post about their partners away working, infuriates me. You're right, no amount of money is worth that kinda strain. Ms Foxy
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RHP User
8 years ago
I've just passed 10 years of doing it...and it's been the best, most fulfilling and most( emotionally ) painful years of my life. I've had 2( and there was potential for more.. ) serious relationships with women I worked with, and I've seen, done and experienced more than I had in all the years prior. I don't earn that much more, I just work more hours each week. I work for a catering company. These days...by choice...it's Hays, the temping agency.And you know why I haven't taken the opportunities to earn more, jumping to a Miner like Rio, etc over the years? Because I enjoy my job, and because catering is very social. More women than men work for the catering companies, unlike the resources companies.And just like in the real world, I meet people through the workplace. A bit more money isn't enticing enough yet, for contentedness.
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RHP User
8 years ago
True as Fuck..I used to work on a decent sized minesite north of Newman. (Not far North of Newman"Rooms those days did NOT have individual phones, and internet..There was a large room (Phone Room) up near the Mess with 4 individual rooms, each with a phone.Problem was, you could hear everything the fella/Gal next door was saying.I had tapped into the phone line and used to go there AFTER the mad evening rush, and sit on my computer with a Perth ISP. (Free)All good...Spent a LOT more time then on RHP... "Organizing" for when I took breaks.. or got kicked off site. So.. 930-10pm when the Wet Mess" was shutting down, I would hear the main door open.. and EVERYTIME thought... "FFS Mate... do NOT do this.. go to fucking bed..."But Nah.. he would call his GF/Wife/Whatever...BE all cute and pissed... Then it would come every time.."Umm.. Yeah Babe... I had a couple of beers with the boys.. nothing else to do..."Then shit happened ...Within 2 minutes, he was calling her a fucking slut and cunt. and dozens of other abuse. Screaming about her probably fucking someone every time he left for site... Shit like that.... I would shake my head..."Fella... accuse her of it, and she PROBABLY will do it eventually.. and who knows.. next week.. I MIGHT be talking to her right here on RHP...." Talking of that particular minesite: I had a short fling with a lady who may EVEN Still be on here.. and Her PARTNER worked on the same site as me.. *Evil Grin*I Want to tell you..."There IS something special about having someone who hates your guts for OTHER reasons.... then you find out you are ACTUALLY fucking his bride behind his back."Folks.. I don't make the rules of relationships, and I have never once gone to a church where a couple are getting married and sworn before the priest.. or whatever, that I would NOT fuck the Wife.SHE makes that promise to her Husband.. AND, if she choses to NOT live up to that vow, "Who the Fuck a I to disappoint her?"
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Mctag9
8 years ago
I work offshore in production but on a good roster, basically 40% work 60% home - When I first started in exploration it was 50/50 3 weeks on/off in Oz and 4 weeks on/off overseas.... I treat it as going to jail and just accept it - It is all work, head down bum up and you can't drink or smoke and you're always on standby as a part of the Emergency Response Team anyway.... I like it as there is good team work - I've never worked shore based or mining FIFO but lately my company have taken on many new contractors who were FIFO mining and they've told me it is a often bitchy and too many drunken and drugged dickheads and it is a lot less team orientated. As far as I'm concerned working 4/1 or 3/1 is unhealthy, it is bullshit and I'm not surprised so many relationships fail and suicides happen... :/
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RHP User
8 years ago
Fifo works well for me in my current circumstances. I do 8 days on 6 days off though. In regards to marriage breakups and suicides, majority are uneven time rosters, so it irks me when the media misportrays the lifestyle. - Posted from rhpmobile
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