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[rawr]

33k a year is a shop bitch in my shop, but they get treated well.

I'll be your shop bitch if the pay is right and I get to play with cool machines 

I worked 12 hours today and left the store perfectly clean. That's like 8 dollars an hour after taxes 

[Urban Indian]

33k a year is a shop bitch in my shop, but they get treated well.

I'll be your shop bitch if the pay is right and I get to play with cool machines 

I worked 12 hours today and left the store perfectly clean. That's like 8 dollars an hour after taxes 

he buys lunch everyday and also doesn't work him that hard.

[Passenger]

That's tempting job but wouldn't want to relocate. I can't find a damn Tig job around that would hire a noob. Where's a good place to start? I'm multi process welder and some pipe too.

Passenger...yal mostly do cnc machining? I been thinking about going back to school to take some classes.

I'd have no problem hiring noob anything, as long as you are try and actually get better. I can't stand people who don't try. Too many people around me just want to make 6 figures without trying. To make 6 figures takes work. Sure there are some opportunities in Canada to make big dollars but the living costs are off the hook in those areas and by the time you buy your hookers and blow you are lucky to end up with jack shit.

Yeah we mostly do cnc machining, but I still do about one shift of manual and semi/fully automated tig/plasma welding a week myself, its hard to find GOOD tig welders here.

[Passenger]

I'll be your shop bitch if the pay is right and I get to play with cool machines 
I worked 12 hours today and left the store perfectly clean. That's like 8 dollars an hour after taxes 

Mostly we stay pretty clean in my shop, but when shit breaks you gotta get in the machine and fix it. Most days I could wear nice clothes and not get them dirty.

[JohnHandcock]

rawr.. WTF exactly you do? 8/hr?!?!?

Pass..I wish your were closer to me.Dont mind working hard and learning at the same time. Im at age where I need to get the ball rolling.

[Passenger]

There is a lot to learn in my shop, most people don't care for learning though, which is hard for me to understand because I love it and I am always working at learning new stuff. Not that I really expect anyone to be enthusiastic about diagnosing problems with a transfer robot after hours or on a weekend, but it would be nice if they were at least interested in retaining some of the things hey learned during the repair to make the next repair go a little faster.

[jabberwock]

Azeroth.  Move to Azeroth.



or the moon

[rawr]

rawr.. WTF exactly you do? 8/hr?!?!?

Pass..I wish your were closer to me.Dont mind working hard and learning at the same time. Im at age where I need to get the ball rolling.

Salaried restaurant manager

[Teg2boo]

Why don't you work in bars as barman?

I don't know in US but here it can pay very well if you're good and work in a nice bar. 100-200$ + base salary on weekend and probably 50-100 + base salary in the week.

[Jorsher]

Huntsville.

Jobs: I've never had a problem finding one.  Worst case, there are places that will hire pretty much anyone for $10-12 an hour.  I'm making mid-20s/hr and have no degree.

Housing: Cheap apartments, anywhere from $200/mo in the ghetto, to $500-700 someplace decent, and up.  Your average 3br 2ba home, $80-120k?

Shit to do: I don't know.  I'm an anti-social fuck so I sit at home.

[dvst8r]

33k a year is a shop bitch in my shop, but they get treated well.

I'll be your shop bitch if the pay is right and I get to play with cool machines 

I worked 12 hours today and left the store perfectly clean. That's like 8 dollars an hour after taxes 

If Dave is nothing else he is fair.

That is the worst thing I heard all day. I worked 12hrs today too, 4 of them were driving (napping as I was co pilot) from the hotel to site, and back, 2 of them were at lunch / coffee. The other 6 I was outside in the middle of nowhere Sask at -14C + windchill (~6F) (no washroom, not even a port a potty) at a pump station, data logging. It was a great day! Mostly because I made more in the first hour then you did all day.

I bring this up not to brag, but as a point. Anyone that has met me from this site will tell you I am average at best. Most people on this site are smarter then me, have more talent then me, and have more employable skills. All I have ever accomplished was graduating high school. This year if it keeps up as is I will work about a week a month, and make well into the 6 figures. Not because I am special, but because I am in the location, location, location where the energy industry is, and they are the big payers. It took me a few years to break into where I am in now, but that has more to do with correcting poor past choices then anything.

I do live on the road when I am working, but 1 week a month isn't that bad. I know lots of guys that do one in and one out, or two in and two out. All making 6 figures.

Yes housing here starts at about 400K, and there are places that gets you a trailer, but the average wage there is nearly 200k a year. It really is all relative.

As an American, getting a green card and a job in Canada would probably be tough, as I know going the other way is a huge pain. But unless you really have a reason to come here for something specific, I would just move to an energy sector in the US (Dakota's, Wyoming, Colorado, Ect...) Get a job with just about whatever, and move around to something that suites you well getting paid. 

[flat_black]

move to seattle, be a long shoreman, they hire anyone if you try hard enough

[Urban Indian]

move to seattle, be a long shoreman, they hire anyone if you try hard enough

Maybe you can't read good

[JohnHandcock]

33k a year is a shop bitch in my shop, but they get treated well.

I'll be your shop bitch if the pay is right and I get to play with cool machines 

I worked 12 hours today and left the store perfectly clean. That's like 8 dollars an hour after taxes 

If Dave is nothing else he is fair.

That is the worst thing I heard all day. I worked 12hrs today too, 4 of them were driving (napping as I was co pilot) from the hotel to site, and back, 2 of them were at lunch / coffee. The other 6 I was outside in the middle of nowhere Sask at -14C + windchill (~6F) (no washroom, not even a port a potty) at a pump station, data logging. It was a great day! Mostly because I made more in the first hour then you did all day.

I bring this up not to brag, but as a point. Anyone that has met me from this site will tell you I am average at best. Most people on this site are smarter then me, have more talent then me, and have more employable skills. All I have ever accomplished was graduating high school. This year if it keeps up as is I will work about a week a month, and make well into the 6 figures. Not because I am special, but because I am in the location, location, location where the energy industry is, and they are the big payers. It took me a few years to break into where I am in now, but that has more to do with correcting poor past choices then anything.

I do live on the road when I am working, but 1 week a month isn't that bad. I know lots of guys that do one in and one out, or two in and two out. All making 6 figures.

Yes housing here starts at about 400K, and there are places that gets you a trailer, but the average wage there is nearly 200k a year. It really is all relative.

As an American, getting a green card and a job in Canada would probably be tough, as I know going the other way is a huge pain. But unless you really have a reason to come here for something specific, I would just move to an energy sector in the US (Dakota's, Wyoming, Colorado, Ect...) Get a job with just about whatever, and move around to something that suites you well getting paid.

What exactly you do? Rig welder?

[turbob16hatch]

As said, you want to make good money and get a job easy atm it's oil field. Not kidding pack your shit and drive out to the fields. get a job anywhere out there.

Last i heard mcdonalds was paying something like a $2000 signing bonus and $18/h to keep people from going to the oil industry. If i ever lost my job i would be out west the next day.

[dvst8r]

33k a year is a shop bitch in my shop, but they get treated well.

I'll be your shop bitch if the pay is right and I get to play with cool machines 

I worked 12 hours today and left the store perfectly clean. That's like 8 dollars an hour after taxes 

If Dave is nothing else he is fair.

That is the worst thing I heard all day. I worked 12hrs today too, 4 of them were driving (napping as I was co pilot) from the hotel to site, and back, 2 of them were at lunch / coffee. The other 6 I was outside in the middle of nowhere Sask at -14C + windchill (~6F) (no washroom, not even a port a potty) at a pump station, data logging. It was a great day! Mostly because I made more in the first hour then you did all day.

I bring this up not to brag, but as a point. Anyone that has met me from this site will tell you I am average at best. Most people on this site are smarter then me, have more talent then me, and have more employable skills. All I have ever accomplished was graduating high school. This year if it keeps up as is I will work about a week a month, and make well into the 6 figures. Not because I am special, but because I am in the location, location, location where the energy industry is, and they are the big payers. It took me a few years to break into where I am in now, but that has more to do with correcting poor past choices then anything.

I do live on the road when I am working, but 1 week a month isn't that bad. I know lots of guys that do one in and one out, or two in and two out. All making 6 figures.

Yes housing here starts at about 400K, and there are places that gets you a trailer, but the average wage there is nearly 200k a year. It really is all relative.

As an American, getting a green card and a job in Canada would probably be tough, as I know going the other way is a huge pain. But unless you really have a reason to come here for something specific, I would just move to an energy sector in the US (Dakota's, Wyoming, Colorado, Ect...) Get a job with just about whatever, and move around to something that suites you well getting paid.

What exactly you do? Rig welder?

Nope, data collector.

[patsmx5]

Anywhere within 1 hr of Houston.

[BoostedSchemes]

"Re: Looking for an area to move with some opportunity"

America.

[jabberwock]

"Re: Looking for an area to move with some opportunity"

Ukraine.

[92CXyD]

Anywhere within 1 hr of Houston.

Kool so you be in the area around for the Nov. F1 race.