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  1. #1
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    Default Fitter/Turner/Welder/Machinist/PSA - Work Required

    Hi,

    This morning I found out unfortunately that I lost out to another person for a position as a technical officer at a well known university here in Melbourne. What made it worse for me was that it is the first time I had been granted an interview in nearly six months of trying to get a job!! I am fully aware that trying to get a job at 55 years of age is pretty difficult at the best of times but not as hard as this - maybe it's my English accent.

    If anyone hears of a position in one of the above mentioned trades then I would certainly appreciate a pm message.

    I live Thornbury which is in the inner north suburbs of Melbourne. The PSA (Personnal Services Assistant) isn't a trade but a profession found in many hospitals/aged care facilities.

    Thanking those in advance of their replies.

    Regards
    David (MH)

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    Occasionally position for PSA's come up at Alfred Health.
    I have jokingly asked for a translator to cope with Scottish and Irish accents.

    Hope you find a position soon.

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    Hi David,

    I doubt your age or accent had much to do with it.
    I scored a TOs job at 55 eleven years ago up here at a big Uni.
    I'm Oz but my boss was a young Scott.
    I got it thru networking I guess, I'd visited the previous bod and made the the classic " this is a great gig if you ever leave let me know."
    A year or so later he rang me,so I took in my portfolio(I'd been self employed) and they basically started me straight off and sorted the details later.
    To replace me when I retired,one of the recent Fitting apprentices was enrolled at wood machining at TAFE.
    I'm a Patternmaker who as you know are now extinct as we know longer manufacture here in Oz.
    They recently started a Welder whose a Scott and he's impossible to understand.
    Good luck,but you should be ok as blokes with experience are starting to get thin on the ground.
    H.
    Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)

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