Newbie
Posts: 2 
December 20th, 2006, 01:57 PM
I live in Ontario and have experience in construction, landscaping, and painting/renovations.
I'm an extremely hard working person and I want to relocate to alberta to make/bank some money. Rooming and such is a must before I ever get out there.
I'm looking to make a good amount of money at the same time being able to bank 90% of it.
With this is mind, how should I go about finding an employer that will set me up?
I live in Ontario and have experience in construction, landscaping, and painting/renovations.
I'm an extremely hard working person and I want to relocate to alberta to make/bank some money. Rooming and such is a must before I ever get out there.
I'm looking to make a good amount of money at the same time being able to bank 90% of it.
With this is mind, how should I go about finding an employer that will set me up?
Super Genius
Posts: 1,384
Location: London, Ont. Canada
Location: London, Ont. Canada
December 20th, 2006, 02:03 PM
Keep your eye open for job fairs that may come to town. Usually held in hotel conference rooms. You may have to live in a larger town, say as big as London at least, maybe. Try look for an Albertan newspaper on the web. Google can find a lot of stuff. Some temp services such as Express Personell or Kelly's can find you work.
Keep your eye open for job fairs that may come to town. Usually held in hotel conference rooms. You may have to live in a larger town, say as big as London at least, maybe. Try look for an Albertan newspaper on the web. Google can find a lot of stuff. Some temp services such as Express Personell or Kelly's can find you work.
Electoral Member
Posts: 84
December 20th, 2006, 07:15 PM
If you want a job in Alberta. You got one. Out here it is an employee's market. If you are willing to work in the oil rigs you can make huge money- easily over $100 000 a year (with overtime). And they pay for your lodging or you may have to sleep in a base camp.
There is no excuse to be unemployed here in Alberta.
If you want a job in Alberta. You got one. Out here it is an employee's market. If you are willing to work in the oil rigs you can make huge money- easily over $100 000 a year (with overtime). And they pay for your lodging or you may have to sleep in a base camp.
There is no excuse to be unemployed here in Alberta.
Genius
Posts: 768
December 26th, 2006, 04:30 PM
This tells you what sort of salary to expect: http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/C...Page&Page=Home
Looking at salaries:
http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/C...0&MaxSal=80000
Seems to me a well qualified construction person could expect to make between $50 and $60k annually, plus overtime. You want to put 90% of this away ... thinking ... so you want to save about $49k per year. That leaves you $6 - $10 k to live on for 12 months including food, utilities, transportation, accommodation and entertainment.
Impossible, even in Alberta. Do a budget, calculate your expenses, look at your salary and re-assess what you can realistically "bank". The first thing you need to do is look at the cost of living in Alberta ... even though we don't have those extra taxes, Alberta has a high quality of life and standard of living and that costs something - unless you go for that cardboard box idea.
Quoting SDL
This gives you some ideas about what your qualifications need to be: http://www.woodbuffalo.net/www.woodb...checklist.html
I live in Ontario and have experience in construction, landscaping, and painting/renovations.
I'm an extremely hard working person and I want to relocate to alberta to make/bank some money. Rooming and such is a must before I ever get out there.
I'm looking to make a good amount of money at the same time being able to bank 90% of it.
With this is mind, how should I go about finding an employer that will set me up?
I'm an extremely hard working person and I want to relocate to alberta to make/bank some money. Rooming and such is a must before I ever get out there.
I'm looking to make a good amount of money at the same time being able to bank 90% of it.
With this is mind, how should I go about finding an employer that will set me up?
This tells you what sort of salary to expect: http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/C...Page&Page=Home
Looking at salaries:
http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/wageinfo/C...0&MaxSal=80000
Seems to me a well qualified construction person could expect to make between $50 and $60k annually, plus overtime. You want to put 90% of this away ... thinking ... so you want to save about $49k per year. That leaves you $6 - $10 k to live on for 12 months including food, utilities, transportation, accommodation and entertainment.
Impossible, even in Alberta. Do a budget, calculate your expenses, look at your salary and re-assess what you can realistically "bank". The first thing you need to do is look at the cost of living in Alberta ... even though we don't have those extra taxes, Alberta has a high quality of life and standard of living and that costs something - unless you go for that cardboard box idea.
Genius
Posts: 768
December 26th, 2006, 07:46 PM
Quoting Dalreg
Yup. Anyone that wants to bank 90% of their income needs to be a very good financial planner and should have a university degree ... that is still required by most to push the salary into the $200-300k range where 10% of the salary is okay to live on - without much of an entertainment budget.
Finding a job should be fairly easy. Banking that much of your income will be almost impossible. Unless like stated before you wish to live in a cardboard box.
Genius
Posts: 768
December 29th, 2006, 06:38 PM
Quoting SDL
Unfortunately, it's not very real for that type of work in Alberta. If you want to work the rigs, you can go to Fort McMurray, but the housing is very expensive, the hours dreadful, the work dangerous and lots of people fall into drugs and alcohol for entertainment - very expensive entertainment.
The idea behind being able to bank 90% is a real one. I should have said I was interested in camp work on my first post.
Thanks to all for the advice and info, please keep it coming.
Thanks to all for the advice and info, please keep it coming.
Newbie
Posts: 13
May 19th, 2007, 05:36 PM
Quoting RomSpaceKnight
Do you know any that are going on in Fort mc Murray
Keep your eye open for job fairs that may come to town. Usually held in hotel conference rooms.
Newbie
Posts: 4
May 29th, 2007, 10:24 AM
hi, is true, there are lot of jobs. I lived in Ontario, but when I got here, I find a good job soon before I came. my friend give me the link, help me to start my new edmonton life. maybe can help you little ......
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-housing-...QAdIdZ14769376
hi, is true, there are lot of jobs. I lived in Ontario, but when I got here, I find a good job soon before I came. my friend give me the link, help me to start my new edmonton life. maybe can help you little ......
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-housing-...QAdIdZ14769376
