WJV wrote on Sep 23
rd, 2016 at 9:53pm:
The Government makes it cheaper for a farmer to employ a backpacker is my problem. And like I said - am not not particularly suited to farm work.
edit - Cant you find any fruit picking jobs? The OP claims they are everywhere. I can pick fruit. I can travel anywhere in NSW to do the work.
The farmers pick the backpackers because they are standing there ready to work, everything else is the same
Try mildura picking grapes, when I was kid of 16 I travelled from Nth QLD to victoria to pick fruit. There I learned some very valuable lessons:
1. Fruit picking is hard work for little return
2. Without skills I am employable for only the most menial of jobs
3. That was not the life I wanted and it was the only time I did it.
If you have parents who are not socialist free loaders and bring you up right. You will not tend toward being a free loading parasite and will do what ever it takes to look after yourself and your family, like a responsible adult.
The dole is a stop gap measure between jobs and only if you really need it; it is NOT your life's incomes because you are lazy and stupid.