Mining in the outback

I got a job as a field/geological technician at a mine site in the mid-west of Western Australia. There is a common type of job out here called FIFO ("fai-fou"), which means fly-in-fly-out where you work 12 hours a day for 9 or 14 days in the middle of nowhere and then return home for 5, 7, or 14 days of rest and recreation. This gets repeated every 2, 3, or 4 weeks. I got added on to the Core Yard's staff with one other guy (an 18 year old from Darwin) because they were very backed-up with work from the surplus of drillers. The other guy and I are on the 14/14 on/off schedule so one of us is always there (and now since training is over) but never more than one of us. It's dull monotonous work, but it pays well and it is temporary in nature--the job will end in September. Though I've heard it's quite common for other new jobs to open up so that they can keep you around if they like your work. A short post, but other than record rains in WA there isn't much for me to report.