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Old 02-07-2024, 09:49 AM   #30051
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Rent is so damn high that it's cheaper for this student to fly to Vancouver for school vs living here.
Have you guys not spent time in the business faculty buildings at UBC? They have the hottest looking 18+ LGs there! Compared to UofA or UofC... there is just no comparison.

Obviously the guy is doing it wrong if he isn't spending time on campus to hit on these hot UBC chicks.
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I also know a ton load of PhD's serving coffee. PhD's are a dime a dozen.
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Well yea, paying for an education doesn’t mean you won’t be a loser
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Old 02-07-2024, 10:12 AM   #30054
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yup there's a security guard running around the port who has an economics PHD and some other Ph.D. They call him the professor. HES ETHNIC... thats probably why
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Well yea, paying for an education doesn’t mean you won’t be a loser
I didn't say that a barista is a loser ... I am saying there are lots of PhD who are under employed. You seemed to suggest PhD's are a ticket to 6 figures.
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Old 02-07-2024, 10:28 AM   #30057
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In many fields, it certainly is.

My wife went to highschool with a guy we ran into at a wedding, guy was finishing his PHD in paediatric oncology, he likely won’t be pouring coffees.

Btw, if you’re a barista, with a PHD, you’re likely quite a big loser given the cost of your education relative to your income lol especially if you had to do full time schooling to obtain said PHD as opposed to working in your field and actually getting paid while doing it
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Old 02-07-2024, 10:38 AM   #30058
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^thats a pretty moot point. Any doctors, even a family doctor is making over 300k now.

If you’re willing to look at old ladies anuses for a living and toe fungus’s, take the money then. Nurses, doctors, anyone in health care should be doing quite well.

Arts majors and phds are just a waste of time
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These degrees will open doors, it doesn’t mean your (<—-just a guy with a diploma) smart enough to navigate through them.
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^thats a pretty moot point. Any doctors, even a family doctor is making over 300k now.

If you’re willing to look at old ladies anuses for a living and toe fungus’s, take the money then. Nurses, doctors, anyone in health care should be doing quite well.

Arts majors and phds are just a waste of time
Specialists in almost any field are where you make the money. That’s why project managers, and even directors to some degree are a dime a dozen because anyone can be these broad titles where you rely on others heavily

When you have experience and education in a specialized field, pay and promotions typically are much more lucrative.

Nowadays it seems like a degree is a basic requirement even into low end jobs. I think young people now though are generally useless and have almost no social skills to be high performers though lol. I’ve got enough credits for 1.5 bachelors degrees but all through 2 year diplomas I paid for while working. I ended up getting a position that was really intended for an engineer as my experience proved to be worth more than a new, younger student with no life/work experience

I’d never shit on someone getting a crazy education, but obviously some are almost worthless.
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Old 02-07-2024, 10:58 AM   #30061
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oh i thought university of alberta had a campus in calgary too.
i don't know if they have satellite campuses there (similar to UBC in diff locations), but the main U of A campus is in deadmonton

also all this talk of masters and PhD
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^thats a pretty moot point. Any doctors, even a family doctor is making over 300k now.

If you’re willing to look at old ladies anuses for a living and toe fungus’s, take the money then. Nurses, doctors, anyone in health care should be doing quite well.

Arts majors and phds are just a waste of time
Aside from Physicians, ain't no one else in health care amongst the property owning RS ballers. Their income is public information. And many are less than 100k. Managers are low 100k. Work 6 days a week 12 hours or more a day and you'll get 200k.....maybe spoonek makes that much.
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Hondaracer is right, you need to make yourself valuable... be it a specialization or unique talent or experience/education combo... you need to present value to someone. Working in service industry and whining about equality of pay and that you should be able to do what you love every day isn't special, everybody knows how to whine and most people are really good at it lol.

I got a BA because I was lazy with school and didn't know what to do, and the only thing standing between me and a version of me that is renting and struggling my ass off to scratch out a living month to month is a combination of luck, timing, some present-minded decisions and taking what I did get from that and applying myself to carve out a niche for myself in the public sector.

I often wish I had applied myself to something more specialized when I was in my late teens/early 20's. Not so much regret, but just thinking damn I could have gotten ahead faster or know some cool trades that I could apply to my hobbies or whatever.

As far as I'm concerned, I just got lucky given my education background. Most people I graduated with are not doing well.
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Old 02-07-2024, 11:29 AM   #30064
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^thats a pretty moot point. Any doctors, even a family doctor is making over 300k now.

If you’re willing to look at old ladies anuses for a living and toe fungus’s, take the money then. Nurses, doctors, anyone in health care should be doing quite well.

Arts majors and phds are just a waste of time
A liberal arts degree is not a waste of time. With a liberal arts degree you have a long career as a politician and even run for PM.
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I've read all the articles and reddit threads about this and while the news coverage spins it to be a decision made for financial reasons, I think in reality he's choosing to do it as a lifestyle choice. And honestly, he's got some good reasons:

- He doesn't want to live with roommates anymore

- He's only got these 2 classes left before he graduates. Trying to transfer those credits to UofC to finish his degree would be a huge headache.

- He likes flying

- He lives close to the airport in Calgary

- He has nexus to help with security lineups and doesn't check bags

- He can live at home and enjoy mom's cooking

I've done the daytrip to Calgary and back a lot. It's a long day for sure. Some people really don't mind it. But others think it's insane and would rather take the bus or WCE from PoCo. To each their own I guess?

The only thing about his story I think is sus is buying RT flights on AC for $150. Even if you book far in advance, it's usually around $250. And if you want the SQM (which of course you do), then add another $100 usually for the upfare.

I also think he is minimizing the risk of delays. Morning flights are generally on time, but evening flights between YVR-YEG-YYC are generally always behind by an average of an hour. He says he's never had a delay, and while that may be true, I don't think you can ignore that delays of several hours are inevitable.

So yeah. I really don't think this is about saving money. It's the fact he likes this lifestyle.
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He's definitely gonna hit 75K soon with all those flights
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He probably bought the Western Canada flight pass on AC. Or his parents work at AC?

But yeah with the delay + weather and flow control to YVR he's gotta give himself at least a 4hr buffer.
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No, I don't think he has passes.

I looked up his reddit account and he was asking why flights in March were more expensive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aircanada/c...ghcwi/pricing/

I think he literally just books them a few months in advance.

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This is his daily itinerary for those two days at school. Based on his comments and assuming he leaves the house around 10AM, it sounds like this lifestyle adds an additional 7 hours of transit per day. It's 12 hours for the whole trip, but you can subtract 3 hours for his classes and an additional 2 hours since most people take an hour to get to UBC per direction.

He said he lived in Vancouver for 3 years previously, so he's probably experienced enough and rather chill at home.
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Each to his own as far as lifestyles are concerned, but I am a strong believer that in order to get the full undergrad experience, you really want to immerse yourself in the campus life, and that means spending time on campus, partaking in class / labs / club activities, and utilizing the facilities that the university has to offer, etc..

None of that is cheap nowadays -- I get that. But those university years is really a phase in life that you can never experience (or even approximate) ever again. I treated my first 2+ years of university as little more than just classes, and I came to realize how much of the other aspects of university life that I was missing out on. So I tried my best to change my ways some time in my 3rd year, and I was enjoying my university experience a lot more.
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Yah I didn't really get that at SFU, way less culture there, thank goodness someone started a car club and that ended up with me making most of the friends I have to this day! That was pretty much it though. Shanty on the Hill was a place you just went to for classes and that's pretty much it.

We really miss out on that whole culture in the US of going to a college that's for sure.

I do find it fascinating how since I left SFU though, it's turned into its own little city with towers and places to live up there. I wonder if it's any different culture wise there nowadays with that. Also can't believe people would pay so much to live up there.
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True in a way. Wifey is specialist. Turns out there are only 15-25 roles across Canada.

1) Big hospital.. oh... errr our brand name = you should just work cause of the pride. No pay increase for 20 yrs.
2) Oh you are a children's doctor.. you do it for the love of the kids... -30% than standard doctor
3) Oh, you're a specialist.. well there's only 20 spots across Canada and we pump out 5 specialists a year in Canada and there are no one retiring yet.

So yeah, she definitely not hitting the 300k threshold.
4) Now, if you're willing to work in Sask or Winnipeg, sure.. signing bonus is 30k, pay is 300k. If you want to be at Toronto, then take the pay cut and just know our brand name and prestige is worth about 100k right?
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That just goes to show how broken the system is.

If she went to the states she’d probably make substantially more automatically. There’s no appetite to fix the healthcare system in Canada, because if there was, we’d just throw money at it until it was solved.

Some remote butt-fuck place doesn’t have a doctor? Keep raising the pay until one stays there. It’s very simple.

I had friends working in Alberta filling up water stations who were making SUBSTANTIALLY more than my family doctor.
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True in a way. Wifey is specialist. Turns out there are only 15-25 roles across Canada.

1) Big hospital.. oh... errr our brand name = you should just work cause of the pride. No pay increase for 20 yrs.
2) Oh you are a children's doctor.. you do it for the love of the kids... -30% than standard doctor
3) Oh, you're a specialist.. well there's only 20 spots across Canada and we pump out 5 specialists a year in Canada and there are no one retiring yet.

So yeah, she definitely not hitting the 300k threshold.
4) Now, if you're willing to work in Sask or Winnipeg, sure.. signing bonus is 30k, pay is 300k. If you want to be at Toronto, then take the pay cut and just know our brand name and prestige is worth about 100k right?
Or… move to Seattle WA for that sweet USD
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