seems most appealing to me is hospitality work since I've had experience from it as a pot washer and its a decent way to make friends since your always working as a group. Easier than it is in the UK! Australia has a relatively buoyant economy. Flexibility is the name of the game here. If you're willing to go and work in a pub in the country (read: middle of bloody nowhere) for a few weeks, bed, board & pay included, then that sort of work can be found v. easily, whether or not you have experience (the same goes for fruit picking). Hostel work (housekeeping) for free accommodation is v. easy to find - I just asked at the desk at the hostel where I was staying, and they told me to start on Monday - without having asked about experience, or even my name! If you want to work in a city (and not in a hostel), then you will have to pound the streets fairly relentlessly to find work. There's definitely a knack to it - I took my job-finding time from 1 week to 1.5 hours! I know a few people who went home because they "couldn't find work". However, the mistakes that they made were typically - only accepting work the same sort of work that they had done at home - the one I'm thinking of wouldn't accept anything less than an FT job as a graphic designer - sitting around moaning that they