How many guitars do you own?

[AGWAN]

Aw, I cant even vote in this

 

[B3Guy]

Aw, I cant even vote in this

I hope you have more than 16, unlike me, but I fear it is the opposite end of the scale?

 

[AGWAN]

Aw, I cant even vote in this

I hope you have more than 16, unlike me, but I fear it is the opposite end of the scale?

Yep. I had ONE. got poor for a long time. got a ticket. had to sell the guitar to pay the ticket. still poor.

I'm not just kinda Poor... I am running out of clothing poor.

stealing food poor.

Luckily this Laptop is paid for and my internet is free.

I was supposed to be able to eat and dress and enjoy life after I got a job as a CNA.

Thats not the case 30 hours or less a week of Minimum wage at a job where you help people slowly die.

doesn't go very far.

 

[B3Guy]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

 

[AGWAN]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

I'm trying to go back to school right now. but the college I need/want to go to for the degree I want (well, for the degree I want to be any good.) is in Australia.

Hell, I honestly just want like, An Ibanez AS 73 and a Vox AC30 and I'd be happy for a while.

But when I get the money. oh... An Iceman, A Tele and a  Neon Purple Jazzmaster, are all on my dream list.

I'm not used to being poor. before My car accident... I just bought what I wanted. I had a good job!

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

I'm trying to go back to school right now. but the college I need/want to go to for the degree I want (well, for the degree I want to be any good.) is in Australia.

Hell, I honestly just want like, An Ibanez AS 73 and a Vox AC30 and I'd be happy for a while.

But when I get the money. oh... An Iceman, A Tele and a  Neon Purple Jazzmaster, are all on my dream list.

I'm not used to being poor. before My car accident... I just bought what I wanted. I had a good job!

Get a loan, get over here and try to become a bricklayer. You'll be rollin' in it within no time.

 

[AGWAN]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

I'm trying to go back to school right now. but the college I need/want to go to for the degree I want (well, for the degree I want to be any good.) is in Australia.

Hell, I honestly just want like, An Ibanez AS 73 and a Vox AC30 and I'd be happy for a while.

But when I get the money. oh... An Iceman, A Tele and a  Neon Purple Jazzmaster, are all on my dream list.

I'm not used to being poor. before My car accident... I just bought what I wanted. I had a good job!

Get a loan, get over here and try to become a bricklayer. You'll be rollin' in it within no time.

I'm actually trying to use that college to get in the country on a Student Visa (can't work over 20 hours a week , though) and stay there through all of college on that. then I hope to apply for a skilled migrants Visa, then citizenship.

Its not an easy task, selling everything you own and leaving everything you know to move to a new country. but its just where I need to be right now if I want to go anywhere later.

how hard is it to get a job as a Bricklayer in Oz? it pays alright here... if you can find the work.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

I'm trying to go back to school right now. but the college I need/want to go to for the degree I want (well, for the degree I want to be any good.) is in Australia.

Hell, I honestly just want like, An Ibanez AS 73 and a Vox AC30 and I'd be happy for a while.

But when I get the money. oh... An Iceman, A Tele and a  Neon Purple Jazzmaster, are all on my dream list.

I'm not used to being poor. before My car accident... I just bought what I wanted. I had a good job!

Get a loan, get over here and try to become a bricklayer. You'll be rollin' in it within no time.

I'm actually trying to use that college to get in the country on a Student Visa (can't work over 20 hours a week , though) and stay there through all of college on that. then I hope to apply for a skilled migrants Visa, then citizenship.

Its not an easy task, selling everything you own and leaving everything you know to move to a new country. but its just where I need to be right now if I want to go anywhere later.

how hard is it to get a job as a Bricklayer in Oz? it pays alright here... if you can find the work.

You'd probably have no problem at all trying to find a job. All kinds trades are needed seeing as the recent floods have wiped out thousands of homes in Queensland. All you gotta do is suffer scorching sun and sweltering humidity.

 

[AGWAN]

Scorching sun is standard fare for Utah, Humidity is a new thing. but not a Problem if it means I can go to University in Brisbane.

 

[OzziePete]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

I'm trying to go back to school right now. but the college I need/want to go to for the degree I want (well, for the degree I want to be any good.) is in Australia.

Hell, I honestly just want like, An Ibanez AS 73 and a Vox AC30 and I'd be happy for a while.

But when I get the money. oh... An Iceman, A Tele and a  Neon Purple Jazzmaster, are all on my dream list.

I'm not used to being poor. before My car accident... I just bought what I wanted. I had a good job!

Get a loan, get over here and try to become a bricklayer. You'll be rollin' in it within no time.

I'm actually trying to use that college to get in the country on a Student Visa (can't work over 20 hours a week , though) and stay there through all of college on that. then I hope to apply for a skilled migrants Visa, then citizenship.

Its not an easy task, selling everything you own and leaving everything you know to move to a new country. but its just where I need to be right now if I want to go anywhere later.

how hard is it to get a job as a Bricklayer in Oz? it pays alright here... if you can find the work.

There are pros and cons to any opportunity, suggest you check with Australian Govt. website IF you can apply for any sort of other Visa or residency while you are in Australia on a Students' Visa...I think from a  discussion I had with a Chinese girlfriend a few years back, she HAD to go home and apply from there. The Student's Visa has been roundly abused over the years, I personally escorted quite a few 'students' onto planes when working at Sydney Airport years ago, caught out by Immigration abusing their Student's Visa and deported. Don't take the words of chatrrom talk, go to the official websites and/or ask a Govt. official or website. There is a lot of street talk which may or may not get you through, but if you are doing the wrong thing and get caught out, you're on a plane out with a very black mark on your passport, which WILL inhibit travel anywhere else in the future.

 

[AGWAN]

Well, I'm going to have to get the student Visa to go to that college. which is the reason I am going. and thats about 3 years. after that I may or may not want to stay there, I may get married. I might move back to america.

I might a lot of things.

I do worry about having to leave and apply for a visa to return, just because I finished school.

 

[OzziePete]

Well, I'm going to have to get the student Visa to go to that college. which is the reason I am going. and thats about 3 years. after that I may or may not want to stay there, I may get married. I might move back to america.

I might a lot of things.

I do worry about having to leave and apply for a visa to return, just because I finished school.

From what I can recall from working for the Govt, talking to Immigration people AND talking to the Girlfriend who had that issue, you come into Australia on one Visa and must comply with that Visa before filing any more Visa requests....But looking at the official website there's a whole lot of sub-classes of Student's Visas and I do know that because my girlfriend was Chinese that she was in a higher risk category of nationality than say someone from the USA. And maybe that was one of the conditions when she gained her Visa back then (6 years ago now).

I do know, as Conor (Wana) implied, that the Australian Govt. IS looking for Skilled/Profesionally Qualified Migrants to gain citizenship here and are favourable to applicants if you happen to have the right professional qualifications that we are desperate to attract. I do not know if a bricklayer falls into that category (probably not).
Have you made contact with the education facility here and found out if you can enrol and what the requirements are? Moving to another country is a huge step tho, I don't know how hard it is as I haven't done that, but I do know one guy who moved to the USA and found the move more challenging than he thought it would be.

 

[danny275]

My collection probably isn't anywhere as nice as everyone else's but I've 5 guitars. Two i never play

Encore E6
SX Poison: PST-SC

Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus
Vintage V100MRPGM ICON Series - Peter Green/Gary Moore tribute guitar
Fender MIJ '52 Telecaster - Made in 1987. Same age as me  :icon_biggrin:

 

[elfro89]

I'm a college student, so . . . yea. not a great idea to drop $2K on a guitar when you've got student loans up the wazoo.

haha, im the same, i've blown all my money and gear! and parts from warmoth. Still need to buy the body. Drivings lessons come first though

 

[AGWAN]

I'm a self taught illustrator. making no taxable income in that trade, after that I am a Certified Nurses Aid. which was not on the Skills list I was able to glance at. I have Emailed Griffith, and they love international students and are accredited in the USA, so they qualify for Federal Financial Aid. Of the Visa's I was able to read, it was made clear to me that I would have to have a College Offer for the student visa, and that I would have to re-apply for it X number of before each school year ended. I also can not work more than 20 hours a week.

I am trying to do something big, something tricky. and without an Immigration agent (they're flippin pricey, and I'm told they're not that helpful)

But Brisbane is where I really want to be. I am giving up everything I own to get there. and get there as fast as I can.

I'm from Utah. we don't have an actual arts college.beyond a couple good Medical colleges... we really don't have anything.

we don't have much but labor jobs and jobs only for Mormons. we have no opportunities. My ONLY marketable skill is the arts. and we have no art.

In Brisbane I have friends. I have a job field I am suited for and I have a college that can train me in that field. I have a future there.

here I have spent 25 years doing jack diddly.

Any advice anyone can give me on how do this. I thank you for. I thank you for all the advice you have already given.

 

[AGWAN]

So this is a guitar forum huh? GUITARS WOO!

 

[back2thefutre]

New Thread: How many guitars do you WANT to own?

 

[AGWAN]

About 30.

 

[kboman]

10-ish electrics, half of them LPs, and maybe 4-5 acoustics.

 

[SpiderDeluxe]

Still own:

-2x squier strats (got 2nd one for $5)
-Gibson SG Classic
-Martin D-1
-Fender Jazz Bass
-Eastman T186MX deluxe
-93' PRS Custom 24 stoptail
-Kramer 650G aluminum neck
-Warmoth rosewood tele


Sold:
Epiphone Black Beauty LP
91' Gibson Nighthawk