momopi wrote:Folks from all over Canada (and few from US, including myself in the past) travel to Fort McMurray, Alberta to get a piece of the oil sands action, without being born & raised there, having good family contacts, or part of some favored demographic. It does however, require the fortitude of being able to withstand -40C temperature, and willingness to get off one's arse.
http://www.fortmcmurrayonline.com/jobs/welcome.aspx
You, you can stay exactly where you are and complain all day.
It is quite simple; in the past there were a lot of opportunities in various places but now they tend to be oversubscribed. I don’t know why you insist on posting crap like this. Motivational? Sage advice? It is highly likely that the average young man on this forum pisses away more motivation, fortitude and knowledge of the world each morning than you are likely to ever possess. You seem to serve a similar in society as some rich woman's toy Pekinese, any forays into real work notwithstanding. Adult babies who have been looked after their whole lives should realize they have nothing to offer and never did.
I spent much of last year working with fit, motivated young men doing 12 hour cleaning and maintenance shifts in heavy industry. The work was likely some of the physically hardest that the Western world has had to offer legal residents in its post-war history, which of course most men are not now capable of doing, and yet we were paid a pittance. Why? Because there were hundreds of highly motivated unemployed young men waiting to take our place.
A couple of my fellow workers managed to get into the mining industry like you suggest, but that was because of the help of older relatives who got their jobs back in the day when there were more opportunities available. Most were laid off when the factory was ungraded and production runs declined, and are now unemployed. I got a better paid and less physical (but still hard and dangerous) temporary job that allowed me to save money to travel. I count this as being lucky and didn't feel the need to lecture my former workmates on how they were useless wasters failing to grab to bountiful opportunities in front of them like me. If I had I would likely have ended up with multiple fractures and rightly so.
If you have actual, practical advice on how men might get into particular industries in terms of contacts and such then it might be good to start a thread and post it. Otherwise it would be good to try to wrap your head around the fact that the problems the West is facing are systemic, not personal, and STFU.
