Anyone here work in NZ?
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- lobstarr
How is it? Pay well? Cost of living? Culture shock?
- random_ink0
Yes I work in New Zealand
I love it, cost of living is dependent on where you want to live, pay is relevant to what you do/skill set is and coming from Canada you probably wont have much culture shock - I have friends from Vancouver who are here at the moment and love it
http://www.seek.co.nz/
http://forthemasses.net/
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-m…are good places to start looking for work
http://www.tauranga.co.nz/ <- where I live
http://www.lovebop.co.nz/ < area surrounding where i live (kinda live the "provence".- Sweet Dude!!eegrek
- Oh I'm from new zealand as well forgot to mention that
random_ink - Big style!goodidealuke
- ratbaggy0
S'a beautiful country. I'm planning on a move there in the near future. Never actually made it to Tauranga though.
- meffid0
I'm born and bred kiwi, haven't worked there for over 4 years.
The politics suck, the tax sucks, the transport sucks and the pay isn't great at all for designers or creative types. (IMHO of course)Tauranga is an awesome place, getting a job as a designer with great clients in a good studio could take up to a year to find.
Auckland is where it's at for design, along with Wellington, but again can take a while to find anything remotely worth going for.
- tenpointtwo0
Name: Jim
Job Title: Sr. Web Designer and partner
Location: Detroit, NZ
Salary/Income: 190k/year and some company benefits- theres a detroit, nz??????// crazy... i wonder what the 8 mile equivalent islobstarr
- lobstarr0
Thanks for the realistic take on that meffid.
Politixxxx suck everywhere.. so im not so worried about that... taxes.. well Canada use to have the worse... and transport can't be that compared to Vancouver hahaha...
Thanks for the "other" side of living in NZ though.. appreciate it.
- brains0
- in the nude
two dudes with food
if that's what you're in toEnzo - How 'bout you and 2 dudes
Him, you and Stu,
Is that the kind of thing you might be into?cosmicEntity
- in the nude
- random_ink0
yeah I do agree with meffid as well but hey you make do the best you can where you are
but like any "cities" Auckland and Wellington have both pros and cons if I had to choose I would pick Wellington
- meffid0
I just did a week in Wellington on a contract launching a site, I love the chicks there, the clubs, the strip bars and the tourists and being so close to the cook straight you can see south island on a clear day.
The weather leaves my nuts in my lower abdomen however.
Auckland beaches are awesome and small drive to orewa and things. -1 or traffic.
Good and bad everywhere obviously, people just seem to think NZ is some magical land because it has precious. ;)- the summer was wicked in Welly think you just missed it by the sounds of it!blackspade
- lobstarr0
you know what... thats what i exactly thought... until i was hanging out with the partner in my company... basically said nz was the canada and au was the american in that part of the world... but thats just oranges and apples...
what's wrong with the weather? too cold or too warm??? it can't be as bad as toronto... i can't stand another winter.... or vancouver... where it pretty much rains 24/7/4 seasons... ... okay maybe im being wrong... 24/7/3.95 seasons ... 0.05 being that week of sun...
- Well if you go to Wellington. You'll notice that our rain falls horizontallyshapeaspect
- olli1010
ok - once and for all - does this "tall poppy" thing really exist and if so, can you give examples of how it works in daily nz work life?
PS - shout out to JAFA's, Seven, DNA and Santos in Ponsonby - love that place. :-)
- meffid0
http://www.anewnz.org.nz/vision.…
EXAMPLE: Flight of the concords was refused by major record labels in NZ to be commercially viable and generate interest so they sought a deal overseas and now are huge and won an award.
- RIZ0
I'm from Auckland (recently moved to Sydney), and think there's very healthy design industry there. The pay is pretty good if you're in a decent studio, however the cost of living I find very high - but that's only if you want to live in a cool area like Ponsonby.
The lifestyle really is pretty damn good, and I believe Auckland was recently voted 5th best city in the world to live:
http://www.citymayors.com/featur…There is some fantastic, world-class work produced by these studios which all have offices in Auckland:
http://www.designworks.co.nz/
www.dna.co.nz
http://www.inhousedesign.co.nz/
www.seven.co.nz
http://www.saltdesign.co.nz/
http://www.dashwood.co.nz/
http://www.maxim-group.co.nz/
http://www.thewilderness.co.nz/
http://www.studioa.co.nz
http://www.dowdesign.co.nz
http://www.insightcreative.net
http://www.bravenewworld.co.nz/
www.thechurch.co.nz
ALT Design (don't have a website)for recruitment you should get in touch with Debbie at Portfolio Recruitment, she is very helpful and has contacts with all the top agencies.
www.portfoliorecruit.co.nz/- Wow it's like a reunion of NZ designers!goodidealuke
- Wow dude.... thanks for the pointers.!! appreciate it muchlobstarr
- RIZ is back
and go back to work luke
random_ink - yup design is healthy over here.. just you have to make your clients dollar go further in a smaller market can lead to some interesting headaches...Schnub
- goodidealuke0
I'm just moving back there myself. The market is bouyant at the moment. RIZ and Random_Ink have pretty mush said it all.
New Zealand is amazing but... small and far away from the rest of the world! It really depends on what your looking for?I think this is a good book to read.
http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Cre…
- DogsBreath0
What's the capital of NZ?
- DogsBreath0
$2
- olli1010
I take it you've all seen this?
- Midge0
I grew up in tauranga, moved to auckland, started a design business, now 5 years later, i am out of here - bought my ticket today, leaving 15th of august to london.
Why? NZ is nice, but its boring... and it never changes, it will always be here - but i wont.
- Were you heading?goodidealuke
- exactly like vancouver.. exactly like van..lobstarr
- blackspade0
Yea, maybe boring, but its what you make of it too, easier to get to the top in NZ that it is elsewhere.... I recenltly left NZ & living in London.
Obviously different perspective growing up there, than it is hitting it for hte first time after living elsewhere.
Also check out www.shift.co.nz have aucks and welly offices, ...used to work in the welly office.
- hey, shift got a new site since i last looked. agreed, what you make it, but i can always come home
Midge - for surem not saying u shouldnt go, im living tripping around, def gotta get out and aboutblackspade
- true enough, but better now than later... later being having all these attachments like a mortagage, kids, cancer.. maybe not the last one but u get my drift.lobstarr
- maybe not the last one, but you get my driftlobstarr
- hey, shift got a new site since i last looked. agreed, what you make it, but i can always come home
- Midge0
having been around auckland for a while, i recommend these agencies:
www.fracture.co.nz
www.inhousedesign.co.nz- JB who some times lurks on here works @ fracturerandom_ink
- I know JB - he's a great manMidge