The great thing about working in Australia is you're almost certainly not a slave. You don't have to cool a corpulent autocrat by waving a palm frond to earn a crust (or have one thrown into your cage at the end of the day). 
But being employed in Australia isn't all milk, honey and 45-minute lunch breaks.
In our post-industrial society, there are really only four main sectors left: Digging Stuff Up (mining and agriculture), Telling People How to Do Stuff (education), Helping People Buy Stuff (service and retail) and, by far the biggest sector of all, Making Stuff Up.
As a proud member of this last economic division, I'm not going to ridicule it, but I will admit that it comes with its challenges. Unlike palm frond waving, which has clear requirements (tempo, temperature maintenance, fatigue tolerance), making stuff up is, by its very nature, indefinite, unclear and inexact.
Nobody knows what they're doing in this sector. You would think that would make those involved happy go lucky, unburdened by the harsh realities of science, mathematics or rocks, but it doesn't. Among the lolly-gagging and eye-darting is a need to manufacture problems.
"WHY AREN'T OUR METRICS TRENDING UPWARDS?" we scream.
"I TOLD YOU TO DRIVE POSITIVE OUTCOMES. WHERE ARE THEY?" we demand.
"YOU PROMISED ME ENGAGEMENT!" we weep.
Eventually, someone makes up a solution to these made-up problems, but for a while, working in this sector is incredibly demanding.
Jonathan Rivett makes stuff up at haught.com.au. He helps others make stuff up at theinkbureau.com.au.