In 2024, I quit my job in Taiwan. After taking a trip to Japan for fun, I flew straight to Australia and began my drifting backpacker life.
I grew up in Taipei, a big city filled with skyscrapers, so before leaving I had already decided that I didn’t want to go to the crowded East Coast. Instead, I chose South Australia as my first stop!!
As soon as I arrived, I pretty much emptied my savings to buy a car and moved to a small town with almost no Chinese people (I still don’t know where that courage came from). At the time, I didn’t even have a job, so I didn’t dare go out and enjoy myself—I just lay at home every day applying for jobs nonstop.
Two weeks after arriving, I found my first job at a chicken farm. Everything went smoothly, and after working there for three months I was able to collect my visa days. Just when life was starting to feel stable, fate decided to play a joke on us—our whole team, including the manager, got laid off together :)
So I went back to drifting again.
Luckily, I had saved some money before, so I could still get by for a while.
While looking for my next job, I accidentally came across a Taiwanese-run agency. Even though I had seen many people online say, “If you can avoid Chinese agencies, avoid them,” my situation was already urgent, so I decided to ask Workmate anyway to see if they had any jobs that fit my needs.
At that time, I only had one requirement: “I want a stable job.”
After talking with the agent, I got my current job — an egg farm!!
Even though it’s an egg farm, it’s not a factory-style egg plant. It’s a real egg farm where you live and work alongside live chickens!!
The agent checked in on me every couple of days, asking whether I was adapting well. For someone like me—who had already personally dealt with chicks at my first farm job—this job was honestly a piece of cake.
I’m truly so grateful to Workmate for helping me find this job (on my knees).
It perfectly matched everything I was looking for. No matter the wind, sun, or rain, the working hours are stable (with very occasional overtime), which gave me the sense of stability that is so hard for backpackers to find.
And in an era full of scams everywhere, they also provided Chinese-language documents, which solved my previous nightmare of facing fully English paperwork and feeling like I was illiterate—only knowing how to sign my name.
Because farm rules don’t allow us to carry phones while working, I’m posting a photo with a koala instead, to show that I’m genuinely very happy with my life in Australia right now!!
I hope any Taiwanese people who are still hesitating will consider chatting with Workmate.
They’re truly warm, caring, and reliable ?
I grew up in Taipei, a big city filled with skyscrapers, so before leaving I had already decided that I didn’t want to go to the crowded East Coast. Instead, I chose South Australia as my first stop!!
As soon as I arrived, I pretty much emptied my savings to buy a car and moved to a small town with almost no Chinese people (I still don’t know where that courage came from). At the time, I didn’t even have a job, so I didn’t dare go out and enjoy myself—I just lay at home every day applying for jobs nonstop.
Two weeks after arriving, I found my first job at a chicken farm. Everything went smoothly, and after working there for three months I was able to collect my visa days. Just when life was starting to feel stable, fate decided to play a joke on us—our whole team, including the manager, got laid off together :)
So I went back to drifting again.
Luckily, I had saved some money before, so I could still get by for a while.
While looking for my next job, I accidentally came across a Taiwanese-run agency. Even though I had seen many people online say, “If you can avoid Chinese agencies, avoid them,” my situation was already urgent, so I decided to ask Workmate anyway to see if they had any jobs that fit my needs.
At that time, I only had one requirement: “I want a stable job.”
After talking with the agent, I got my current job — an egg farm!!
Even though it’s an egg farm, it’s not a factory-style egg plant. It’s a real egg farm where you live and work alongside live chickens!!
The agent checked in on me every couple of days, asking whether I was adapting well. For someone like me—who had already personally dealt with chicks at my first farm job—this job was honestly a piece of cake.
I’m truly so grateful to Workmate for helping me find this job (on my knees).
It perfectly matched everything I was looking for. No matter the wind, sun, or rain, the working hours are stable (with very occasional overtime), which gave me the sense of stability that is so hard for backpackers to find.
And in an era full of scams everywhere, they also provided Chinese-language documents, which solved my previous nightmare of facing fully English paperwork and feeling like I was illiterate—only knowing how to sign my name.
Because farm rules don’t allow us to carry phones while working, I’m posting a photo with a koala instead, to show that I’m genuinely very happy with my life in Australia right now!!
I hope any Taiwanese people who are still hesitating will consider chatting with Workmate.
They’re truly warm, caring, and reliable ?
