u/Niggynoonoo

I'm an Australian citizen with a white card and PPEs, I'm willing to work weekends, nights and overtime and I have experience doing manual labour while I was going to school, specifically I did housepainting, stonework maintenance and lugging heavy packs of equipment for miles for full time workers.

Every labour hire company I've tried so far hasn't gotten back to me and I'm trying to sign up for more, and SEEK is even worse, not one reply in 40. Is it not supposed to be pretty easy to get your first job in this particular field? I've made a post on r/tradies and they've given me a few other companies to try but it feels like I'm unhireable without formal experience in Australia

I have a white card and not much else lol. I went to a boarding school in the mountains that was kind of a bad kid's school, and there we had to lug 20kg's of materials around for the workers, paint roofing and walls for the school's sister schools/the school itself, assist full time workers with tiling, plant trees, do all kinds of shit as part of "early morning labour", but that of course doesn't translate on a resume' as actual work so well. Not going too great via SEEK or labour hire companies, I assume the lack of any experience and like Confined Spaces and Working at Heights is a bit of a hindrance here.

What do you guys recommend I do? I'm very eager to have extremely sore joints and bones for the rest of my life as soon as possible, and fully prepared to kiII myself working weekends and nights, doesn't seem to matter much to the recruiters tho