Temp jobs & long stay accommodation

So we're in Brisbane, its a very nice city and we could do with earning some money so we decided to try and find some work here. We got some CV's/resumes, printed and started handing them out to anywhere that had vacancies and applying for jobs online. After around a week of no responses it was beginning to feel like tedious job hunting back in the UK, but then we had a realisation! We had been applying for ordinary full/part time job vacancies when we are only here on a Working Visa for 1 year - we should apply for temporary jobs. The following week Jamie had an interview for a temp agency and secured a 9 week contract. I also got work with a temp agency for a few weeks.

Before we arrived in Australia the only work that anyone ever mentioned to us was farm work. Having heard a few bad stories and wanting to live in the city we decided that at the moment farm work is not for us.

There are other options!

Our tips for finding work are :

• Don't be picky, remember its not going to be your career. 
• Some hostels will have job boards etc and will be able to help you find work, so use them! 
• Check online jobsites.
• Be persistent.
• Don't give up! 

So as we had work here we now needed to find cheaper long term accommodation than the place that we are currently staying in. Most letting agencies require at least a 3month tenancy agreement, usually 6 months so that was not an option for us.

We found our new place on Gumtree. Its another shared house. In a good location, no bond to pay, bills included and reasonable rent.

If you are looking for a place online beware that there are number of scams out there. Asking you to send large security deposits overseas etc.
To be honest they aren't difficult to spot.
So the moral to the story is, if the accommodation and price looks too good to be true - then it isn't real! There are a lot of genuine ads online, but I would recommend a viewing before making any sort of agreement and certainly before handing over any cash.

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