I earned £100,000-a-year doing a job no one wants - it was easy money but it had a sinister dark side

A DAD has revealed how he earns £100,000 a year doing a job no one wants - but there's an ominous catch.

At his peak, Lachie Samuel was raking in almost $5,000 (around £3,700) a week which he splurged on drinks at the pub .

Lachie left home at 19 to become a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) in the Western Australian mines - five days of gruelling labour followed by two days at home.

When he started, the lifestyle was challenging but cushioned by the hefty pay package he received at the end of the month.

He told News AU: “You would do a 12 hour shift, come back to camp, hit the gym, then head straight to the pub and order as many drinks as you wanted."

But while the pay was "more money than he knew what to do with", Lachie soon discovered the dark side of working in such remote locations f