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Thread: The Great Resignation ‘21
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10-21-2021, 10:39 AM #351Registered User
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10-21-2021, 11:24 AM #352
Dollar fiddy
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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10-21-2021, 11:39 AM #353man of ice
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10-21-2021, 11:51 AM #354Registered User
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Not sure what a sparky makes but union scale i imagine, there are 3 major project under way Site C, CGL, Bruce jack so I think there are lotsa in-camp jobs but those projects have depleted the local work force both skilled and not somebody has to shovel snow/ sweep floors/ and for skilled I am pretty sure i know where you could make big coin wrenching/ running or fixing a snowcat
I think buddy the dealer who wasn't going to vax cuz " I should be dead anyway " is just moving up in the job market having seen too many people die from an OD or Violence in his previous job so a better job comes along , a job where nobody pulls guns on him
as oposed to a shovel bunny they got him doing a somewhat scientific tech job cuz he is smart, other wise he would be dead alreadyLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-21-2021, 12:05 PM #355Registered User
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I am a fairly specialized electrician in highrise commercial/industrial controls/hvac automation. I love the work but I hate that it's fairly specific to big cities. I don't have a mechanical license but I can keep an audi quirky audi allroad running. I'm also fairly techy with good skills in adobe indesign/illustrator and decent python coding skills. I might have to come up for a ski trip to drop off my resume.
I been getting lots of linkedin offers, and they all boast they match union rate. I ask them for minimum 20% over and powder days.
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10-21-2021, 12:13 PM #356
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10-21-2021, 12:15 PM #357Registered User
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I think you gotta be Canadian
ehLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-21-2021, 12:20 PM #358Registered User
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Canadian and vaxxed. I just want a house where I can wrench on my stuff and tour big lines without having to work 60+hrs a week. I don't care if the best coffee shop in town is tim hortons.
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10-21-2021, 12:29 PM #359Registered User
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I would just send resumes
Specialized electrical might be a place in Kitimat at Reo-tinto ?
the Brucejack mine could be steady work for yars, base yerself out of Terrace or Smithers which both have small local ski hills and there is no shortage of ski touring
I hear they have a REALLY good chief at Bruce jack,
but get yourself out of the city, I never regretted getting out of Vangroovy, things were much better once i was beyond HopeLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-21-2021, 06:02 PM #360
A few years ago the ski areas were pulling guys out of the mechatronics finals at Sierra College in Truckee to maintain lifts. I assume the demand is still there. Lifts aren't getting any simpler.
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10-22-2021, 01:58 PM #361Registered User
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yeah I dunno if i would wana be that really greasy guy wandering thru the bar wearing a safety harness, I doubt they get payed well to work horrendous hrs when the snow is on the ground
but a mine would pay really well year roundLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-22-2021, 08:54 PM #362
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10-22-2021, 11:28 PM #363
I think that's the electrician or the mechanic, not the mechatronics guy. (I was stuck on a chair in a pretty good storm for a good 45 minutes near the top and feeling pretty sorry for myself until the lift finally started moving, crested a ridge, and there was a guy with a very, very large wrench on top of a tower. I didn't feel that sorry for myself then.)
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10-23-2021, 08:24 AM #364Banned
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The Director of Lift Maintenance at a major resort near me is paid so well she's forced to live in the back of her pickup truck. Most of the FT, year-round guys make less than $15/hour.
As much as I love skiing, I would love seeing resorts unable to operate due to lack of staff even more.
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10-23-2021, 08:54 AM #365
Around here doctors and bankers live in the back of pickup trucks. Only real estate agents can afford houses.
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10-23-2021, 08:58 AM #366Banned
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Wow, so you have an elevator in the back of your pickup? Impressive.
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10-23-2021, 09:20 AM #367I drink it up
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He has one of those old man high rise cappers. Clearly.
focus.
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10-23-2021, 09:31 AM #368
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10-23-2021, 09:34 AM #369Registered User
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When i moved here ever one said don't get a job at the ski hill cuz you end up working instead of skiing
so I didn't get a jobLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-23-2021, 09:40 AM #370
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10-23-2021, 09:56 AM #372Registered User
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if the lift is down you are working whatever your title is
the big hills in BC are reporting a problem getting staff, it sounded like Big White is hundreds of bodies short, same with revy, whistler I would imagine the same
So a lot of ski hill workers come from away, so they want to come and work but its a problem getting in
they interviewed a retail out let at big white and buddy (from auz) couldn't find staff, he needs 6 bootfitters and only has 2, a lot of BigWhite and Silver Star employees came form downunderLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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10-23-2021, 10:23 AM #373
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10-23-2021, 10:32 AM #374Originally Posted by XXX-er;
Last edited by ill-advised strategy; 10-23-2021 at 08:24 PM.
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10-23-2021, 10:38 AM #375
Is this not acceptable?
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