Hey bro I saw this today and thought of you. Just in case you need something to get you by

https://i.postimg.cc/3RrLVzZY/IMG-8277.jpg

Hospital Trans?

:lol

It purposely told 4 Met to keep back too. Stupid 4 Met, what kinda of a lousy immigrant name is that

Anyone else see the rack first and not the whole car? Roof rack..............

Getting laid off doesn't carry the stigma it used to, happens all the time.

In 2007, I didn't make it past probation. Said I was overqualified and let me go after 2 months.

In 2019, I was downsized from Seaspan after 12 years. Our department had survived 3 other downsizings over the years because we've always been lean but I knew eventually, we would get hit. I was okay with it because after commuting to North Van for 12 years, I was kinda done with it and already looking for something closer to home. When I was being terminated, I had a huge grin on my face because I knew I would be getting a 12 month severance. 1 month for every year I was there and I could transfer my pension elsewhere. Total, got about $200k to GTFO. I was cool with that.

The worst part of being unemployed is the boredom. I told myself, I would take a 6 month break, I lasted 2 months before I started job searching...

Found a job at some pharmaceutical R&D company, was going okay until they went bankrupt 3 years later because the CEO stole money and the investors stopped funding the company.

I decided to just retire. Travelled around for a few months but got tired of that and again, found myself just sitting around so I started job searching again. This time around, I wanted to work for non profits. In 4 years, I lost 2 jobs because of someone's greed so for my next job, I didn't want to use my skills to help someone at the top get rich.

Found a job at an Indigenous non profit. A few months in, I realized the director was a verbally abusive asshole that constantly ripped on the younger team members. I spoke to HR and the COO about this and nothing was done so I helped the other team members find other jobs. After everyone found new jobs, I bailed and told the director that he was the problem. When I left, they had no more IT support... basically gutted the IT Infrastructure department in the year I was there... LOL

Current job looks good, been there 8 months. It's non profit, 5kms from home and it's pretty chill.

If you're good at what you do, you shouldn't have any issues getting a job. In the past 5 years, I've had 4 jobs. My most recent job search, I was doing interviews almost every day and the job I landed were really quick to hire me.

In a 27 year career, I've worked at 11 places. 3 contract expirations, 3 resignations, 3 terminations and 1 bankruptcy. Employers don't care these days so don't sweat it.

Man, kudos to you guys for working in such careers. I can't imagine having to deal with such volatility. I've kept my hospital job for nearly 17 years now and have always been grateful for the stability.

In fact, it was the #1 reason I chose this job to begin with because the job and it's hours are guaranteed no matter what. Recession proof, Pandemic proof, there's never been a reason for me to fear losing my job. Hearing the kind of numbers you guys are earning definitely makes me a tad bit envious but I'm happy where I am lol.

Not everyone appreciates what you do and there's a calling too right?

I was cocky and never wanted gov't job, with no high potential but hey, huge stability. Now in my 40s, i want pension and stability.

Quote I kept and learnt today. "Choose your hard" You got a shit job... how about no job? YOu had your boss.... at least you have a boss and a job.

Oh... hate your boring gov't job... at least you have stability...

Holy crap, what a roller coaster. Props on your for sharing my man. Definitely a huge pivot from seaspan to First Nations to non profit.

Non profit are always at mercy on fundraising / gov't etc. There will always be people who hate but you saw the first hand on the crappy leaders and CEO taking money... that i'm pissed. No more golden handcuffs retiring at a job nowdays...

Eh. I would say no job is better than slaving away at shit job that saps away from your daily motivation to live - speaking from very recent experience.

Outside of shit job = toxic job, I'd agree.

This is what my previous company did. They paid the staff and a good mgr told them off record. DO NOT post on LINKEDIN you got a new job or else you'll get cut off from your salary continuance. Load and behold, you see people with new jobs after 18 months cause it ended...

Yeah, the rack was quite something. Speaking of which, the scenario is he just met this girl (See it's not all cougars in Nanaimo!) and next day has a shot of her like that for his thumbnail?

I guess this is what the kids call 'clout'?

Anyway... I would never do 150 off the line through Lantzville...or on the long clear entrance from the old highway to the bypass. That would be irresponsible. :pokerface:

I share the same feelings!

While I didn't specifically choose this career path, I have been working at a university for over 21 years, and moved into a higher position 2 years ago with a decent salary bump. It's not as steady as your hospital job, but it's still quite stable, with good benefits, and pays for my modest lifestyle.

Reminds me of conversations I've had with some of the nurses and my observations of them. The young ones WANT to work in places like emergency because they'll see everything, use all their skills, and it'll always be exciting because you never know what to expect.

Let me tell you, it doesn't take long for them to get burnt out and fucking hate the job and people even more lol. Generally speaking, those who are settled, have kids etc (let's say Age 29-40) end up leaving this place and finding jobs that are more stable, chill and whenever possible Mon-Fri 8-4.

So in the end, it seems a lot of us reach the same conclusion: we just want stability. We may have reached that conclusion by different paths but we're all on that road eventually. Me, due to my circumstances, have always looked for stability first.

Sure, I've been harshly judged by others to take more risks and do this, do that while you're young but none of those people ever had to support themselves from the age of 20. None of them went out into the world without some sort of support system to back them up in case shit went south. And thus, I chose this path despite being "locked in" to a certain yearly income.

That's why seeing the path others took is very intriguing to me and I admire the risks guys take and seeing how much they have accomplished. Definitely not something I could have done! Who knows, now that I have more certainty in life, perhaps I'll branch out to other things and explore different areas for growth.

scam-a-versity!? i love it when they get 4th year undergraduates to call us alumni and ask for "advice" aka donations to the university. I just tell them straight up, your history degree is fucking useless you clown. why the hell did you get a history degree!?!?! you wanna be a useless idiot like me!!?! i got no money to donate to you THANKS HISTORY DEGREE!!!

37 years at same job. Never in my life got laid off or fired. Definitely not quit.........

Another part time job, 27 years.

Single income with three children. Wife looked after the children. Wouldn't have it any other way. House paid off. Collecting pensions. Comfortable. Never gonna get rich. The 37 year job was very satisfying. I retired because of wife having cancer, but I miss working. Looking back, I can't believe I had two jobs for that long. The part time job was seasonal, so it's not as bad as it sounds. Best part was meeting lots of people and making long lasting friendships.

I would give up everything, though, if it meant getting my wife of nearly 32 years back. I was sitting on a chair on my front porch the other day watching couples walk by, holding hands................ that's when it hurts the most. I still visit her every day to tell her how my day is going.

Life's a bitch, but I thank my lucky stars. I could have been stuck in the DTES like I was for the first 16 years of my childhood.

A colleague once told me, "Life's a bitch, then you die!" (told to me that, long before it became a well known quote).

I was thinking the other day......... Wouldn't it be nice to go back to University as a mature student? Audit some funky courses............. then I thought, I'd probably get into so much trouble, jbol.

Guest lecturer? Hmmmmmmm..............

you should, its free anyways, take some LGs home over rice :pokerface:

not university for me, but maybe a community center course on woodworking, or automotive, or even metalworking so I can learn how to wield shit together

Don't sweat it about being laid off, it sucks but that's why you should always keep your resume up to date, you never know when you might need it. Don't get discouraged when applying, it's a numbers game, so just blast resumes out daily.

I'm in tech sales and it's been volatile as fuck, so I do envy you guys with stable education/government/healthcare jobs without needing to stress about quarterly/yearly quotas. Alas I'm shackled with 'golden handcuffs', although I'm reaching to a point where I'm exploring the possibility of taking a slight pay cut and thinking about joining govt roles for the stability.

A few years after I graduated from SFU I decided to take a history course for kicks. I can't remember all the details but, Jesus effing christ, there was a lot of reading to do and I just couldn't keep up. Like 100-200 pages of shit to read every week. I dropped out just before I would get a failing grade for it.

Funny you mention this but I'm teaching a class tonight for UBC. It's not with UBC students but with working professionals. I really enjoy teaching and am doing a few test runs with UBC (and maybe SFU) to see if I like it enough to do it as a side hustle or even my next career.

they better be paying ya for teaching those classes. i swear the universities are basically like any big business and they milk the charity of their profs, lecturers and staff in the name of "education"

how much is it to get a BA nowadays? like 60-70k? it was 50k back in 2005 when I graduated.

50K? Damn man.

I don't think my cost of education, plus books, rent, food and fun was even 50k. Grad in 2005 from UVic.

Yah, non profits are not for everyone, especially non profits that don't bring any money in. My current company is technically not non profit, it's a not for profit organization. They do sell services so they have income and whatever profit there is gets distributed to the employees. Don't work for a non profit unless you're in a senior role or depend on the money... I found most employees at the Indigenous non profit were on the younger side to get a few years experience before moving on.

I just wanted to help others... lol.. I've had a lucky career, no longer need to work for a living, managed to retire at 42, got bored, needed something to do so I figured working at a non profit was the best for me.

I always seem to be in the right place at the right time. Never went to post secondary at all. Graduated HS in the late 90's, was about to go to BCIT for industrial electronics but somehow landed an internship at CRA doing IT support. Figure I could pay to learn at BCIT or get paid to learn at CRA... went with the CRA and just ran with it... 27 year career...

Not to say there wasn't hardships. When the dot com bubble burst, I went 18 months without work and ended up with $30k in CC debt. Took about 6 years to pay that off because when things recovered, there was nothing but low pay call center jobs. After paying off that debt, I told myself I'll never let that happen again.

Once again, right place at the right time... just started working at Seaspan at a decent salary and the 2008 financial crisis hit a few months after I started. I started throwing all my unused money at index funds and dividend funds. Rest is history... Non profit is just my way to give back and still keep busy.

I'm also helping out the founder of the bankrupt pharmaceutical start up a new one. I felt bad for him, he's a scientist, didn't have time to run the business so he hired a CEO that ended up stealing millions from investors. I helped him out all the way til the end without pay to avoid the bankruptcy but we failed. He wants to try again, if it works out, I'll be a Tech Bro, Finance Bro and Pharma Bro... lol

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wow
i think my engineering degree was like $30k scraping by like the poor person i was.

mind you i took an unconventional route - BCIT and then smaller uni so cheaper tuition