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Way to much working

So myself and my employees have just finished a major project in Calgary for wireless internet for a cell phone carrier out here, we have worked 48 days in a row with no time off at all! I checked the hrs for my guys over the last 48 days and  624 hrs is average for each guy. Works out to an average of 13 hrs a day for 48 days straight. Man are we glad that is over...good money though. The tax man loves to see all that over time...s. It might not have been so bad but there is an 2.9 percent unemployment rate in Alberta right now and could NOT find anyone worth hiring to help out...anyone need a job? LOL. At least now i will be able to continue with the t-bird project.

Way to much working

Reply #1 –
Quote from: 4mykid
anyone need a job?
I'll take one if the money is right.

I have diplomas in Electronic Engineering Technologist, Web Master and E-commerse Developer. I'm currently working as a Systems Administrator. :)

Way to much working

Reply #2 –
Quote from: 4mykid
anyone need a job?

I dont know a whole lot about electronics but i'm good at carying shiznit! I need an outside job so bad, sitting in my little box day after day is gonna kill me, going on stress leave soon :yuck: I gotta come over to that side of the mountains this summer, B.C. sucks.
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

Way to much working

Reply #3 –
I heard the economy is getting better in Newfoundland these days...is that true? I am sure you could find something for what you are experienced at in Alberta its crazy buzy with the oilboom. As an example I heard on the radio a couple of days ago that KFC is hiring a 12 bucks an hr to start and if you stay 3 or 6 months(cant remember which) they will award you with a trip to Mexico. I am hiring guys at 19.75 starting and its not that nobody wants to work here its just there is nobody around to hire. That 2.9 percent unemployment rate means the bottom of the barrel if you know what i mean.

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Reply #4 –
You dont need to know about electronics...just cant be scared of heights and have a big set of balls as we are the guys that build and maintain the large communication towers you see everywhere. Heights vary from 50 to 600ft in the air. It is a rush being up there. We actually have an office in BC as well its in Langley.

Way to much working

Reply #5 –
Quote from: 4mykid
I heard the economy is getting better in Newfoundland these days...is that true?


Yes! We are leading the country in economic growth. The Oil industry here is booming. That's great if you're a sailor/construction worker but for someone like myself who can't work off s, there isn't much more work than before. Also, employers here don't want to pay much. I would get $5000 a year more if I could get the same job as close as Halifax - and that would increase with the further away I moved. A journeyman welder here will get about $10 - $15/hr while my nephew, who moved to Edmonton last summer, started working as a second year appr. at $20/hr.

My offer to take a job was kind of a joke. It would take a lot of money to get me to leave Newfoundland. And I'm not climbing any towers. The wheelchair makes climbing towers a real challange. :)

A friend of my nephew, who recently graduated Electronics, was working with a company out west erecting towers and quit to drive a garbage truck because he was working all these hours and was away from home too much. Also, the driving job paid about the same money.
 

Way to much working

Reply #6 –
There are a lot of jobs in the Maritimes at the moment. All the younger work force has gotten on the Western money bandwagon, and still believe there are no jobs at home. Well, people retire every day. Industry is finally picking up. My brother is trying to hire on a second crew, he is so busy, but there are no carpenters left in Nova Scotia. They all went west. It's crazy, but there is a job vaccum in the East now. Sounds like a perfect time to move. :D

That's why I'm doing just that.