lapaz62 wrote on May 12
th, 2008 at 10:24pm:
Is it not a contradiction that the immigrants are so well educated and yet doing the crappy jobs, mmmmmm.
It's more complex than that. Some have medical degrees not recognised in Oz. Others I know are chemists and language translators who are only transit in such industries. These industries seldom have long term employees, who mainly use them as a springboard while doing further studies or seeking work in more advanced fields. The long term cab drivers I know are literally only a handful, and they're not poor by any standards.
lapaz62 wrote on May 12
th, 2008 at 10:24pm:
If you need to have a degree to call me up and sell me something during dinner, drive a cab, work at the petrol station or sell me a coke at 7/11 then your going to the wrong school. I enjoyed the country I had when I was a boy, Its long gone. Do you think that Aussies never did it hard, maybe you weren't here to know.
I'm aware that generational Aussies did it hard, after all I was married to a fifth generation Australian with convict ancestry, and know from her grandparents exactly how hard they did it. Oz certainly has changed, and unfortunately in many areas not for the better, but so has the rest of the world. The "downward slide" has been global, not limited to Oz.