I went to Langara and then BCIT so I pretty much went to class and went home. Didn't join any clubs and only made a handful of friends.

A few years ago, a few co-ops from UBC started at my company. One of them hosted a house party (they lived at UBC) with all the younger coworkers and invited me. Afterwards, we walked around the campus and it was very lively and everyone was out having fun.

I probably should've studied harder during high school and gotten into UBC.

:lawl:

I only went to BCIT and distance learning so yea same, was always home

Did intermural floor hockey for a while until people started trying to be hardcores and then didn’t like my heavy slashing in return :lol

^ I run a floor hockey on Sundays, you can join... we only hack after getting to know you / buying you dinner

I cannot say enough good things about BCIT! Industries go to BCIT to hire ... UBC Engineering grads often cannot find jobs. They go to BCIT for one year cert or extra and they find work!

Ya but he's in his last semester with only 2 courses to go. At that point, making friends and joining clubs likely isn't top of mind if you haven't bothered to do it in the prior years. But we don't know that about him, maybe he did make lots of friends and join clubs when he lived in town, and now the goal is get the fuck out haha. I remember how that feels.

He also chimed in and confirmed he's not using FPs but buying BE airfares far enough in advance where he can get a better price. No SQMs though.

Guy sounds legit tbh. He figured it out!

Would usually be down but hella out of shape now lol

Even during those intermirals fuck the first game I played overdid it due to competitiveness and felt like I was going to have a jammer half way through lol

i found it depends on trends in the timing of the local market and discipline and entry level positions available. for example, right now if you grad BCIT architectural or building sciences, hell ya companies at job fairs will be going to you like the popular girl at prom, not the other way around.

20 years ago, i couldn't get a job in my discipline to save my life, went and got my degree hoping the market would recover, nope, still took a couple of years to get entry level sweat shop labour job. mind you this was after the .com bubble so it was a little scorched earth for some time, and the resource & automation sector was thriving while tech sector suffered. so ya if you had a traditional engineering degree, went and got a cert/diploma in the sector that needed skilled workers, highly likely you'd get picked up with specialized education

looking back i probably should have gotten career counselling guidance on the local industry on what to specialize in, i had no f'ing clue the state of the local market, just take classes & grad :lol

They better be giving away a turbo 911 Cab, otherwise thats blatant false advertising

Quick put it on Reddit and watch what happens

(Fine print says it's a 911 GTS... :notbad:)

Convertible p cars are yucky

Pretty sure it's just a toy model.

The "Sky Collection" starts at $1.8M wow.

How can you give away a Porsche. Even commission on a $5M house is only like $150k, how can they afford to give away a Porsche?

That abandoned townhouse development near Victoria and 33rd now has weather wrap on the old weathered frame. Is that wood still good?

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2397...8192?entry=ttu

It’s not the realtor giving it away. It’s the developer who bought that land 20 years ago for several million, found $100m to build a highrise and is now selling 138 units for $1.8 million to probably $6 million a piece.

Seems like they’ve got about $300,000,000.00 to play with Porsches. As an FYI selling realtor commission on new developments is just a fraction of what a normal “deal” would be. They have a contract through the developer to sell. He’ll, half the time it’s not even a realtor, they just have a realtor on the property (sometimes the developer themselves with a licence). Sales get a small commission, more Porsches to give away. Lol

The same way you get UP TO 5000$ CASH BACK on a 40k civic purchase. Its actually just a 45k civic.


Or furniture stores: ALL FURNITURE MUST GO, 75% OFF!, buts its actually just marked up an extra 75%

Hud91 is probably right tho with his comments

Way to wholesale Porsches. That’s just great for the brand image when all your buttfuck neighbours have one. At 1.8 that’s barely a 30 year old Vancouver special.

I don't think it's that PhDs are a waste, I think it's what 68style and others are saying about value: is this type of PhD education actually delivering any added value in any particular workplace?

One of my best friends is a scientist at a pharmaceutical company inventing medications and stuff (he's the guy who lived under the stairs in a place a couple of us shared, while out here doing his post-doc). Could they hire someone without a PhD to do that kind of thing? Maybe. But then they wouldn't be competitive. They need people capable in experimental research and pushing the envelope in science to have patentable new products to sell.

And some people on my team have PhDs. They speak EM field theory, and basically prophesize how it all interacts when we pull together all the wacky circuitry the rest of us come up with. Maybe we could just build it and see what happens. But building hardware takes time, and every failure means making us that much later to market. And sometimes there's stuff that doesn't show up just testing a handful of prototypes, and you'd only see failures when scaling production volume into the hundreds of millions. So the value in them, is in being able to look out ahead and theorize and model to know what would happen before we try to build.

Minimum 2 or 3 br sky collection only for the Porsche, probably more like 3m. 1.8 just for starting 1br on the sky collection.

In her TikTok, she said her whole spiel while standing in front of a red GT3

anyone got 3 million bucks to troll with?

Just pull one out of Manic's playbook and have 20 of your cousins sign up for a mortgage. Wait, that's for poor people :okay:

We've talked about this a quite a few pages ago when supafamous noticed work has resumed on the 2 buildings. Some questioned the structural integrity of the wood -- including the framing -- that has sat exposed to the elements for something like 3 years. From the colour of the wood, I suspect there will likely be some form of dry/wet rotting at certain places, and I would also not be surprised if there are mold / mildew. None of us want to touch those even if we could have gotten it for cheap lol~

Good luck to the future residents who end up living there... :heckno: