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I know a bunch of fat guys who are willing to pay for sex.
But how can these fat construction workers/realtors/mortgage guys pay for it if the housing economy is shit? Damn, this is a whole microcosm if our economic woes right here!
Because a drywaller is making 150k a year while the arts major is unemployed.
drywallers these days, really?! i wake up to this and contemplating life choices again
when i was working admin as the lowest guy in the construction office totem pole, i'd have to deal with payroll on a large site. seeing what sparkies made made me think wtf did i do with my life to get an engineering degree (and student debt)
but then again if i went trades i'd probably lose a finger or two
on a serious note, engineering is a bit of a catch 22. rare are those jobs you grad and get a great salary unless it's in government with an EIT program.
most will start at the bottom doing grunt work, learn the industry, and in the lower mainland b/c of saturation, will pay 30%+ less. you can get a better job moving to less desirable/boonies areas. i assume it's still like this now.
like choosing a degree, i'd argue choosing the right discipline helps. when i had a random office job to pay back loans coincidentally a coworker was a new grad in aerospace engineering. sounds really cool right? imagine how limiting career options are in canada? i could probably count the firms that i know of on 1 hand.
likewise a classmate specialized in power, right out the get go hydro was hiring and boom, great job/career as it was very in demand.
a lot of times it's timing of industries as well unfortunately. my friends that graduated around the .com bubble bursting and telecom crashing that specialized in telecom, gg for them... i remember one of the asshole profs was "laughing" at them sarcastically telling them 'good luck'
a lot of it is really just career counselling and building a career path. we didn't get a lot of that in the past and i didn't have any mentors until much later in my career (old school you're on your own sink or swim attitude).
drywalling is one of the worst jobs thats why it pays so much.
i hired a few drywallers to do general labour for me before. way less pay but they didn't care.
The guys who do residential towers make $$$$ because it’s all by how much board you toss up. When I worked at Trump tower some of these guys were a total 1 man operation because they didn’t want to split the pay with a helper etc. guys would board entire common areas in a day or two
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or you teach the kid you hired and they open their own company and undercut your ass
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The guys who do residential towers make $$$$ because it’s all by how much board you toss up. When I worked at Trump tower some of these guys were a total 1 man operation because they didn’t want to split the pay with a helper etc. guys would board entire common areas in a day or two
sounds like steel rebar guys, bid to get the job, do the parkade (where the most structural steel is used), once parkade is done, crap out & get fired or go under jkjkjk
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or you teach the kid you hired and they open their own company and undercut your ass
after the olympics and work stalled. i remember several lead hands (good guys) left and started their own small company, 1 man show or a couple of guys. got a lot of experience off the large/complex project we finished and with big jobs stalled decided it was better to leave and do their own thing.
The guys who do residential towers make $$$$ because it’s all by how much board you toss up. When I worked at Trump tower some of these guys were a total 1 man operation because they didn’t want to split the pay with a helper etc. guys would board entire common areas in a day or two
correct, all piece work and only piece work to make that money and more
on a serious note, engineering is a bit of a catch 22. rare are those jobs you grad and get a great salary unless it's in government with an EIT program.
most will start at the bottom doing grunt work, learn the industry, and in the lower mainland b/c of saturation, will pay 30%+ less. you can get a better job moving to less desirable/boonies areas. i assume it's still like this now.
like choosing a degree, i'd argue choosing the right discipline helps. when i had a random office job to pay back loans coincidentally a coworker was a new grad in aerospace engineering. sounds really cool right? imagine how limiting career options are in canada? i could probably count the firms that i know of on 1 hand.
likewise a classmate specialized in power, right out the get go hydro was hiring and boom, great job/career as it was very in demand.
a lot of times it's timing of industries as well unfortunately. my friends that graduated around the .com bubble bursting and telecom crashing that specialized in telecom, gg for them... i remember one of the asshole profs was "laughing" at them sarcastically telling them 'good luck'
a lot of it is really just career counselling and building a career path. we didn't get a lot of that in the past and i didn't have any mentors until much later in my career (old school you're on your own sink or swim attitude).
Yeah it's kind of unfortunate in engineering, how drastically your experience will vary just based on specialization vs geography & market conditions.
One would argue that you don't have to choose until the end of 1st year (not that you'd know much better by then), but even that's not really true. Your choice of school already limits you to a subset of disciplines.
Compounding on this, your luck & timing w/ co-op & first job out of school: the severe consequences on opportunities that this has on the entire rest of your career. It's savage.
There really needs to be an effort to get people in industry to visit schools and tell the kids how it really is out there. Even to tell them what questions to be asking themselves.
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