If you need money and can't find a job... join the Army. Accomodation, food, friendship, pay, life experiences, physical fitness, they have it all.

The Army is my back up plan if I can't become a fireman when I quit this job later this year.

And around this area, big mining companies (and other big paying small companies) have stopped hiring people with a piece of paper fresh out of uni. They are hiring experienced people in similar jobs. Not that job specifically, but similar.