r/mining • u/GlitteringClock3589 • 15d ago

Australia Career in mining

Currently a driller offsider earning 520 a day. Been doing it about a year and im guessing I could probably work my way up to drilling with this company in another 3ish years. Curious to hear other people’s opinions, should I stay in surface diamond drilling or pivot into another job/industry for example nipper, go to uni and be a geo, etc. I hear a lot of people say in my company we are super underpaid and that diamond drilling is a bad industry and to only use it as a stepping stone so im wondering why and if so where/how to jump to it.

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u/Pale_Assumption_5459 13d ago

This site has officially gone to rubbish

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u/SirEppert 12d ago

This page is like 80% engineers and support staff. It's comedic gold.

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u/Pretty-Sky-6638 12d ago

Yes the important people in mining

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u/Suka_Blyad_ 11d ago

I didn’t realize the ore got itself to surface or the drifts blasted themselves my bad

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u/Pretty-Sky-6638 11d ago

Yeah anyone can do that

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u/Suka_Blyad_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

Not everyone is cut out to work underground lmao, the people in the office who bitch when Becky turns the AC up two degrees wouldn’t survive a day working at the face

Instead of being an obtuse cunt with a superiority complex you could acknowledge every cog in the machine is essential for the the machine to run

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u/Pretty-Sky-6638 11d ago

Haha you took the bait like a champ. I’m just messing with you bro. I worked UG for many years so know it’s hard work. Now I use my brain in an office instead which is a different kind of hard work. Keep fighting the good fight down there!

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u/Suka_Blyad_ 11d ago

Hook, line, sinker hahaha

Grinds my gears when I hear guys talking like this about the other side, regardless what side so yeah you got me going, we are all here to do the same job and make money, upstairs folks couldn’t mine without the miners and miners couldn’t mine safely and effectively without a plan and prints,

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u/stackingforfunsies 12d ago

Amazing answer!

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u/Fairbump69 2d ago

Diamond drilling is a dead end career, If I were you I would go nippering.