Testimonials

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!!!!
Big hug

Nagali (France)

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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 Dick he 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. He could get me on a farm without any other backpackers. He 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. Dick 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 Dick again. I had proved myself on the job in Dalby and he knew I wasn’t someone who would let him down. Within no time he 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)

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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.

Thanks
Janina (Germany)

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