Work To Live Or Live To Work

Ceallach · **Joined:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:13 pm **Posts:** 1633

Definitley work to live. I hate the military and I hate what I do in special warfare even more.

2013 cannot come fast enough.

BMW-KTM · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:36 pm

Nevin,
You need to get out of that hospital environment and get yourself into one of the steel trades. Ironworker, Pipefitter, Boilermaker. Alberta is oil country, not orderly or janitor country. Go WITH the flow. Get some dirt under your fingernails and some calluses on your hands and make some real money. You wanna make the same money as the nurses? Or better? It doesn't take a high IQ but you do have to get out of the city and into the mud.

BMW-KTM · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:53 pm

No No No!!

Not the rigs! Never!

You'll just get killed on one of those death traps. They have a 100% injury rate for people with less than 12 months experience.

No, I'm talking about McMurray. No drilling. Mining. Extraction. Upgrading. Refining. There's a ton of money to be made up there. The only difference between now with the recession and before when times were good is that now the jobs are all filled with Albertans instead of Chilleans or Newfoundlanders. No more temporary foreiegn workers or out of province workers. Get your but up there and you'll make more money than you can shake a stick at. How does working 8 or 9 months a year and making $150K sound?

BMW-KTM · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:28 pm

I don't live up there. I am between Red Deer and Edmonton. In fact the money isn't as good if you do live up there. Plus... you couldn't afford to live up there. They want $500,000 for a 40 year old 14x66 trailer on a rental pad. There are no houses less than $750,000 of any size or condition. The vast majority are well over a million.

No, you want to keep living near Calgary and just go up there for work. You either stay in camp or you get a room in town. The room in town deal is the best money. You'll pay between $1,200 and $1,500 for a single bedroom with a shared bathroom but you'll be paid almost $3,500 for living expenses. That's over your wages. That means you want Suncor or Syncrude or Long lake. The other plants are too far away from town to make commuting feasible and camp living is the only viable option. You want to stay away from that. Camp is like prison.

Twelvebar · **Posted:** Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:04 pm

BMW, i think Nevin s near Yorkton Sask. 50K a year should be all right cash for there.

radio_friendly_unit_shifter · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:54 am

Nevin1985 wrote:

Hmmm, more and more I see myself as a workaholic. I thought I was unemployed when I only had one job.

I don't know about you guys/girls, but to me, I can never get enough money. I live within my means (except for massive guitar addiction) but I still cannot afford to live a "decent life".

It seems to me it is harder now to get established. Homes are unaffordable, vehicles too. Wages never seem to keep up, more so than any other period in history IMO.

Part of my work life is involved with agriculture. Parents and I farm around 1,000 acres of cereal/pulse crops. A couple years ago the prices were worse than the Great Depression. Fact! Yet the prices at the grocery store never seem to really go down.

Now, I help out with the farm, and I am trying to get established with a medical career. I have 3, yes 3 jobs with the hospital I work at. 2 relief positions and 1 part time position. It still is not enough! I cover for 19 positions at one relief job, and 6 (maybe more) at another relief job. In one I clean, the other I do office work. Master of all trades! One day I am cleaning puke, the next I am doing charts and working alongside the professionals. :roll:

Madness.

I guess medical school is on the back burner. :roll:

4 Jobs. A new record for me.

Am I just doing it wrong?

This sounds bad....Jobs are just going to get harder and harder to get/find. Look at the state of the economy, finance etc.

But....Seeing that you have a job, i'd just say, the money will roll right in. You just have to stick with it for a while.

texasguitarslinger · **Posted:** Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:24 am

You sound a lot like my Dad, and your situation is a lot like ours has always been. He worked three jobs while he was in college to pay for college, and kept two jobs after that for about twenty years. Then three jobs again when going got tougher, and when it was really bad he worked four. Then he finally got one good one, and had that for about three years and got laid off. And now I got a job before he did. :lol:

People are always warning me that musicians don't make much money and end up working a day job too, but I'm okay with that. I'm used to it.

jeebus · **Joined:** Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:35 pm **Posts:** 1296

the most rewarding work i've ever done is farm work. hard work, long days and little time off, YES. having to fight dallas/fort worth traffic, idiots and criminals, NO.
i have 2 jobs and i'm thankful for both. we have no kids so i spend all my money while the wife saves hers. we have seperate accounts. i'd go crazy if i didn't work.

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