Cooper Oscarfono

Wellington-born, Perth-based, currently underground at the Jundee gold mine in outback Western Australia. I work an 8/6 roster and spend my breaks moving through Southeast Asia — training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, and MMA, and looking for somewhere cheap and good to eventually land.

I’ve spent a decade as a Linux systems and network engineer, another decade as a builder, and I’m now three months into FIFO mining at 47. Killing debt first. Building a property portfolio across Australia and New Zealand second. Everything else after that.

This is the honest account of how that goes.