TESTIMONIALS ABOUT AG WORKFORCE

Its Elaine and Aisling from Escott station. We just love it up here! We are having a great time getting out and about in the proper Outback. The family we are staying with are just great, really nice people, feels like we are at home. We are learning to ride horses at the minute for when the mustering starts...can't wait for that, should be in about two weeks. I'm just bouncing about in the saddle at the minute, need more practice or I'll be falling off a lot!! Aisling is out with the boys alot doing fencing and grading the roads to get ready for the mustering. We will also be going mustering at moonlight which is supposed to be lovely. Merv is taking us out to kill a cow for beef soon , which will be an experience! I cut the horns off a bull when I was down in Cloncurry...messy! We'll be right wee farmers when we leave!

The Gregory camp draught is on at the end of the month and there is also a ball in Burketown at the beginning of July. Looking forward to those! All's going good, thanks for sending us up here, we are having some great experiences.

Elaine and Aisling (Ireland)

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I would like to thank you for your great kindness and feeling so concerned about my happiness. You really found the perfect right place: Todd & Payge & Georgia & Leigh, Louise & Michael & Sam & Jack were the best families.

They have been great with me, making me feel part of their family, including me in all their activities You were totally right when you said I’d have the experience of my life. They’ve really exceeded my expectations! And I didn’t even fall down the horse of the tractor just had 3 flat tyres.

Well I have to go to catch the bus to Brisbane airport. Thanks a million, you’re a really special person & I wish I could help you one day as you did to me. Anything you need related to France, please do not hesitate to ask me

Thank you very much!!!!
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Nagali (France)

AG Workforce managed to find us 7 weeks of work (3 weeks on one farm and 4 weeks on another). The people we worked for were great and made us feel right at home. It was an enjoyable experience and we managed to save enough to get us through another 3 weeks of travelling before heading home with some money left in our pockets.

Greg and Andrea (Canada)

A Real Australian Experience

Having a working Holiday Visa gives you the opportunity to do something different. To have a gap-year before you start to study or to start your real working career. For me it was the latter. I just finished university and wanted a gap-year before I started teaching history on a high school. My first few months in Australia were great. I partied a lot and made a lot of friends. I was however the most time in cities, not so different from home, and surrounded by all European backpackers, also not so different from home.

When I contacted AG Workforce they made sure that this was not a party time. There is a party time and a working time. Those two were not to be combined. I could however get a real Australian experience out of my working time. They could get me on a farm without any other backpackers. They arranged a job for me and my friend Max on a feedlot in Dalby. It was the best thing that happened to Max and me. AG Workforce had arranged everything from bus tickets, to a motel to a pickup to the farm. On the farm was free accommodation for us and occasionally we got some free meat.

But we were here to work and to get an experience. We were thought to drive loaders and tractors and did all kind of different jobs. We even drove feed-trucks. All things we would never do in our live back home. This was truly an experience. Max and I were the only backpackers and besides us there were only Australians. The good thing about this job was that we also earned a lot of money. Because we worked six days a week and worked around ten hours a day we made a lot of money. The only expense we had was our weekly groceries. We saved a lot of money on this job and had a great experience of the real Australian life.

After the job I spend my money and enjoyed it. When I was in need of a new job I contacted AG Workforce again. I had proved myself on the job in Dalby and they knew I wasn’t someone who would let them down. Within no time they gave me a new job. This time in Goondiwindi on a feedmill from a big piggery. I was contracted as an ‘experienced loader operator’! Again a great Australian experience in the middle of nowhere. We had to drive 80 k’s to the nearest town and occasionally ate fresh kangaroos!

Contacting Ag Workforce was definitely one of the best choices made in Australia. I’ve done a lot of things that we’re maybe not the nicest things you can imagine like cleaning cow manure, dealing with rotten food, standing in dusty cow blood etc. But it was an experience and for the rest of my life I have some pretty unique stories to tell.

Henk (Netherlands)

My job at the piggery was a very good experience. It fit very well with my travel plans as Goondiwindi is not very far from Brisbane which was on my travel route anyway… the town itself is a typical countryside town of Australia. The work itself was explained to me very well and the people I’ve been working with were keen to help me. It’s interesting to get to know about the pigs and its fun working with animals. And I really liked working on my own, without being supervised all the time. I think the pay is in relation to the work and compared to most other jobs quite good… I was very happy with everything and wouldn’t want to miss out on this experience.

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Janina (Germany)

I just wanted to thank you for the opportunity I got through the job I got from you! I had a good time in the outback!...Apart from the jobs which were all new to me, I got to know very nice people on the station, just different to everyone you get to know while you stay in hostels...Honestly I have to say that my stay [on a cattle station] wasn't always easy but in the end the positive things had the most weight! Another important fact is that it simply was very very good money! You won't get a better alternative to fruit picking! So thanks again for giving me the opportunity to make all of these experiences!

Benjamin (Germany)

Thank you all you have made my travelling experience here in Australia something that I will never forget. Thank you very much!

Dean (England)