Bearsy

Ain't no jobs in Buffalo. What do y'all know about the oil sands in Alberta? Someone here works there right? What do I need to do to get hired there?

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fenderbender

dont work with the oil companies.

You have no clue what you are inhaling around the drills and whatnot, as they wont release all the chemicals they use.

oil drilling is contaminating our world.

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Geeno

Dont take advice from bender, he doesn't have shit.

And really, less talk more do.

You need money, get a job. Its not like its going to be permanent, just go get money.

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Cambium

I think the "how" is pretty much show up and apply. Even if you don't get hired by any of the really big ones there are lots of contracting companies that will get you working. Some of the general oilfield stuff really picks up once the frost is in the ground.

Mikey

when i was 17 i moved out of my moms house in montreal and moved to fort mcmurray alberta (and been on my own ever since)

it was pretty fucked up
everyone makes crazy $$$$ up there

but rent in the shittiest of the shittiest part of the little town cost us 1600$ a month down the street from the 7/11 at the end of a cul-de-sac where a bunch of crackheads lived in tents

had to get clean piss from a buddy to get a good job with syncrude (one of the major oil companies, the other one is suncore)

and the work was boring hard but the money was ridcilously good, i was making over 1200$ a week easy

but then this one crackhead smoked me in the head with a huge 2by4 he was carrying over his shoulder by spinning around real quick and busted my eye up real good

and at any point and time you get attention from a medic (i was pissing blood out of my eye) they make you pee and in a cup (even if it's not your fault)

and hey-hoo-hay-hooray-mikey's a pothead what do you say?!!!

so overall it sucks

i've never had wads of hundred dollar bills in my pocket yet been so miserable in my life

ended up washing dishes at delaney's irish pub for 16$ an hour after that
we said fuck this shit and hitchiked to vancouver and started my life in bc

im glad for the experience and im glad it brought me here

but up there man, it's nuts, it's crazy, it's literally bizarro world
unless you like being surrounded by a bunch of stupid fucking meathheads, who are being extra meathead-ish because they have a lot of money then go...
economy's nuts up there kids at mcdonalds start at like 14$/h


dont do it

there is jobs in buffalo
or somewhere near by


i live on a tiny secluded resort town island and i found work

where there's a will there's a way


and you don't want to work for the oil guys anyway it's blood money`


but fuck what i say

follow your heart
do what you gotta do
some of the worse decisions i've ever made actually worked out for me because i learned such valuable lessons from my mistakes that i would of never learned otherwise

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Cambium

I'll agree with Mikey and say living in or near Fort Mac just for work would be shitty. The money is what everyone chases, Northern Alberta is no different.

And here's a link
http://www.oilcareer.com/1athabasca.htm

Black

not to be a dick bearsy but in the shape you're in you wouldn't last 4 minutes working in the sands

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Sir-Ex

If you move up to alberta to work the sands ima personally kick your ass.

They cut down all my precious boreal forest the sonsofbitches

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shai_hulud

there are jobs avail. and should you get one, general practice is you stay in a camp, free food, living allowance, $20+/hour wages. shit, they serve steak and lobster once a week. they do work your ass off, though. the schedule is 2 weeks on, 1 week off. usually 10 hours a day. OT is plentiful and often depending on the time of season.

http://oilsands.alberta.ca/521.cfm
http://www.jobmonkey.com/oilindustry...ands_jobs.html

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Cambium

Resource rich Alberta means rape and pillage for the corporation.

Mikey

dude it just plain sucks there
bull fucking shit

been there
done that

and really wouldnt do it again

you'll be a loaded$$ miserable prick
its weird trust me

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Geeno

beats being broke and miserable

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Mikey

i rather be broke and miserable in bc

then loaded$$$$ and in fort mcmurray

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Geeno

Im thinking you werent mature enough to handle it at the time, and now youre bitter about it

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shakeNbake06

i worked in a camp a while back, and one of the main things i miss was the FOOD, damn was it good.. prime rib every sunday, burger and shake night, steak night, seafood night, pizza, etc.. made by actual chefs, not some cafeteria crap. i dont knw about the ones in canada but the camps here work you like 14 hours a day, but 2 weeks off and 2 on. here in ak theyre always hiring for people to work IN the camp, because people always getting fired, including me lol. (seemd like people were getting fired like every other day.. you get paid less than the people working in the field, but its still pretty good money.

Sir-Ex

yeah they dish out the good food up here too

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Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

Cambium

I would say depends on the camp, some are good, others not so good.