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Originally Posted by westopher

I'd literally rather jump off the lions gate bridge than be a GM. All the stress of a chef job as far as staffing, removes the creative aspect, and no pay bump in most cases. GM is very lateral to chef as far as pay and hierarchy. I appreciate what you mean though, it just isn't that way per say compared to the tools/office regard. You're still going to be running as a GM, unless you are an operations manager in a corporate setting.
Funny thing though, even though you're higher up the ladder, in that corporate setting you really are implementing much more than getting to make the decisions of what to implement.
Ideally this change wouldn't have been the one. I'd be teaching at VCC, but unfortunately, I didn't go to culinary school, so I'd need to at least get my red seal, which is frustrating, because people with red seals work for me and learn the things school didn't prepare them for.

Originally Posted by freakshow

My wife has been in fine dining since early 2000's. She took an instructor position at VCC when our first son was born (2017). Trust me, it's completely worth it if a red seal is the only thing you need. I'm not a chef, but I'd be happy to answer any questions since i've seen her go through everything, just PM me.

Originally Posted by dark0821

^you guys are all correct

Taxes are maginal 100%, but as someone mentioned, on the lower brackets, it is absolutely true that pushing higher in a bracket can have huge impacts to your family income as a whole.

$0 to $42,184
- Max benefits from BC GOV (ie. free community centre passes such as gym and swimming pool, free swim lessons for kids, basically free programs in that community centre catalog except for the few 3rd partie ones that are not ran under the gov directly)
- huge subsidy in preschool (I was paying the full amount at like $500 a month per child, and some other parents are paying $80? and they drive a Model X, and I was driving a Rogue, cuz even the RAV4 at the time was too expensive if you are financing, 4.99% APR is no joke, Rogue was 0.9% LOL)(thankfully one child was in preschool at a time, but I still ended up paying like 4 years worth (2 years per child) fml)
- max Canada Child Benefit (once again, its like something stupid like $500+ per kid) I don't know cuz my benefit is like >$100 per child...


$42,184.01 to $84,369
- partial benefitis from above, not as subsidized as "low income" families above, but still a decent chunk in everything listed above

$84,369.01 to $96,866
- this is where I assume most of the working population incomes fall under, like actual people who need to work (people like me LOL), you get jack shit from any benefits, because to the govt you are in the "have camp" instead of the "have not camp that needs help"
- for people with income just under @ like $83,000 with kids, you bet they can afford "a better living" than people we are making $85,000 a year. That extra $160 (before taxes mind you, so maybe you are taking home an extra $120?) that you take home every month is doing jack shit compared to the benefits you are losing

$96,866.01 to $117,623
- honestly if you are doing better than $84,000 a year (ie the last teir). You should just be doing everything to max your income.
- Tht govt isn't doing shit for you except making your life harder, because you are the wealthy and rich (HA!)
- So you aint getting shit, might as well make your own $$$$, because every extra $ you earn, it is going into your pocket after some tax deductions..

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All in all, basically
- if you are making less than $84K, there are some scenarios where it is smart to stay under $84k
- if you are making more than $84K, then max your income, there will be no scenarios where making more will net you less

that's per person right? if you're in a dual income family (say one makes $90k and one makes $60k), it looks at each spouse individually, not combined right? sorry i'm not the one that does taxes in the family