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Octavius Hite · Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

So, I have lived and/or worked in 6 provinces or territories, Im so tired of people from any provincing whining and crying about having to move to find work. For generations people from NFLD had to do it and now Gas and Oil will change that and people will move out there. The same goes for all provinces and territories. The population ebbs and flows, no one should expect a job which allows them to stay in the same spot for their whole lives, get a life.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Too much coffee? Why are you all defensive?

I was just pointing out that the ecomomic "boom" is far from universal.

As for getting a life.....yeah, I'm working on that. My crappy little hagwan job is still a way better option for me than going home and having to pay all those taxes, buy a car, buy insurance, pay rent, pay repairs, by gasoline, move all over the country chasing jobs, pay taxes on all the above.

Again, is it any wonder so many Canadians are in Korea?

Octavius Hite · Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the defensivness, I went to High School and Cape Breton and man all I heard was "the government should make jobs for us so we can stay here" "we are owed jobs" " they should move government jobs from Ontario to here" etc etc etc. Our constitution garuntees us the right to move from any province to any other province for any reason whatsoever. So I always said to my Cape Breton friends, buck up and prepare to move your butt, for christ's sake its only Halifax!

And the reason there are so many Canadians in Korea is because we were all feed the lie the university is better than college and none of us went to trade school, so now we all come to korea and immigrant labour moves to Canada to weld.

Also most of the Canadian guys cant get play from hot chicks like they can here, from dork to stud in a 12 hour flight!

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Too true.

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I'm pretty sure the stats have been compiled this way for a long time, so the record unemployment rate (lowest since '74) hasn't suddenly appeared because there is a sneaky new way to count jobs.
So what BB is saying (and MMT too) is dead on- if you can't make it in Canada right now, then you can't make it in Canada.
That doesn't neccessarily mean you can rush home from Korea and suddenly find employers bowing down before you- experience, a good r�sum�, and marketing yourself still go a long way, just as they always have.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

And only in Canada would we develop a self-defeatist attitude about record employment and job creation. What is that?

Octavius Hite · Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject:

thats cause there are 3 types of canadians:

1. Die-hard love everything about it and everybody else is wrong patriots (that would be me).

2. I don't care I'm just going to work and then go home and get high, i dont vote and i dont give a s**t!

3. I really dislike the fairness and equity of everything. Affrimitive action is wrong, multiculturism is wrong, I can't get a job because all the brown people take them. Indians get too much money, they should just shut up and enjoy not paying taxes. I hate Canada and I want to move to Texas or California (or Korea) and never look back. These people are are usually white people who have been fed the line about welfare mothers and immigrants. (And they couldn't get laid in Canada either).

The last two are the ones who doubt and knock their own country all the time. They can stay in Korea because we don't want them back!

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Man, I don't know about some of you people.

Sure many of us could go home and find a job in Alberta, but not everyone is cut out to work in the oil patch.

Regarding Saskatchewan, how many of those jobs were summer jobs?

How many of them were minimum wage or only slightly better?

I have lived there and left enough times to know that it is far better to leave and find a job and that's why the unemployment rate is low........
everyone left. Wink

Of course that's an exaggeration, but it's not too far from the truth. Saskatchewan businesses simply can not afford to pay the high wages that their Alberta counterparts are able to do. (at least a good many of them)

Everyone who is able (and some who aren't) are in Alberta working. The one's who can't leave or who don't want to are left to take up the few, low paying jobs that are left. This happens every summer in Saskatchewan and this year it will be even more true because there are even more "big money" opportunities in Alberta. I even heard that some companies are paying Saskatchewan boys relocation expenses because the demand for labour is so high in Alberta right now.

Some will come back in winter, as many of the jobs will be seasonal, some will come back hoping things will be better only to find that they aren't. So the cycle repeats next year and so on.
Some will leave permanently because they have been through it enough times to know better.