Perth Airport's charter terminals have become the new stalking ground for prostitutes trying to lure fly-in, fly-out workers returning from remote mine sites.

Prostitutes are soliciting the workers as they step off their flights and taking them directly to hotels or brothels.

The sex industry has identified the FIFO workers as a lucrative market and has made two official requests to open office space in the airport's FIFO terminals so they can tout for business.

Anyone with boots on the ground in LA or Houston or even California and Texas ? Can you tell me if it is really turning around yet

Anyone with boots on the ground in LA or Houston or even California and Texas ? Can you tell me if it is really turning around yet

All I can talk about are the tech industries in the Bay Area and Austin and they really seem to be booming at the moment. There's a lot of VC money sloshing around and that's only going to increase after the Facebook IPO. Recruitment of software engineers in particular is getting pretty cut throat over here and my feeling is a lot of the recent start-up buyouts have been more about recruitment rather than IP. Certainly the retention bonuses been talked about are eye watering.

With a nod to the "What are people really earning" thread, software engineers with a Masters are on a handy 6 figures at the moment with a crap load of benefits thrown in. Thank you Google!

Again, outside mobile, open software positions at the moment are at about just below average levels for the last 25 years. About where it was in 1993/94 or 2004/05. Not bust but not bubbly boom either.

Can't you start the application for OZ PR after two years?

What are those mining towns really like; lodgings, bar/restaurant/brothel?
And what kind of people make up the workforce; is it mianly people who go there short term for a hit of cash or do you get people who do it long term. So much nothingness in WA.

Mining in WA has the name of marriage wrecker, even flyin flyout workers aren't immune:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/ne ... x-workers/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00n0f2c/Assignment_Australias_Fly_In_Fly_Out_Workers/

interesting BBC WS report on the FIFOs

What exactly do you do there BJBE?

Was in Dallas briefly a few weeks ago and the locals reckon it is booming in Texas.

What was your impression of the place? Nice houses so I hear

What was your impression of the place? Nice houses so I hear

Mining in WA has the name of marriage wrecker, even flyin flyout workers aren't immune:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/ne ... x-workers/

Former Anglo banker Sean FitzPatrick told friends he was "dreading" the media attention surrounding his son's wedding because he said people would think he was 'living the high life'.

But the tanned businessman stressed he wasn't paying for the lavish two-day celebrations for his son David's wedding to lawyer Barbara Clear -- niece of millionaire packaging tycoon Michael Smurfit -- at the five-star K Club Hotel.

As a close friend of the banker explained: "Before the wedding Seanie was very anxious, he said 'I'm dreading it. The press will be all over it, they will say I'm splashing out, living the high life' and he said 'the truth is I'm not picking up the bill, I won't be putting my hand in my pocket for a penny of it.'"

"As for Sean, he is rarely in Ireland now. He is away most of the time in Spain and elsewhere. How could he ever live here in peace again?"

The sky is overcast, the wind is howling, and - like every day in Ireland - lashing rain could come at any moment.
Yet Sam Hopkins is walking on a sunbeam.
This summer, Hopkins will be working in London for a firm managing the 2012 Olympic summer games. The position is a major coup for the Dublin Business School student, largely because the prospects in Ireland are dim.
"It's quite limited," Hopkins explains. "We're such a small country, we do have certain events, but they are on such a small scale compared to other countries."

Finding a job in Ireland, Hopkins says, can be a difficult task - especially for young adults. The Irish economy is in the toilet. Double digit unemployment, high government debt and a glut of unoccupied housing have silenced the roar of the Celtic Tiger, and left many of its cubs struggling to find employment.
"I've had a few interviews and things but it's really, really tough," says Dublin City University Masters Student Owlen Sheedy. "There are an awful lot of masters students going for the jobs in Ireland at the moment, and it's very difficult for us with just degrees to get a job."
For those without degrees, the job search is even harder....

Overwhelmingly on blogs and other online postings, young Irish adults express anxiety about their country's economy, and seem ready to embrace better financial opportunities abroad.
Yet others, like recent college graduate Sinead Donlon, seem to view emigration as a chance to add some excitement to life. Donlon plans on moving to England to live with her cousin. Trained as a personal care assistant, Donlon says she's looking for bar work in London as a way to meet new people.
"I did special needs assistance and I'm qualified in that, but there's no jobs for that at the moment [in Ireland]," Donlon says.
Asked if she thinks whether there might be jobs in her field in London, Donlon pauses for a moment before laughing.
"Yeah, I didn't really think about that!" Donlon says.