r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jun 22 '26

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 22 '26

I just wanna be able to afford the bare minimum boys, and be able to actually take my guns out to shoot. I dont even dream of owning a house etc anymore. 

I havent been to the range in like 2 years to help deal with this stress, and cant even get the most basic job to afford to live, let alone afford ammo to go out. Shits looking real dire, fellas.

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u/Rewindonemoretime Jun 22 '26

I feel your pain brother. I got into home ownership just in time, but I’ve since been priced out of moving up, hell, I’m priced out of most repairs I need to do. The amount of deficiencies are climbing while the cost of living pushes me closer to the brink. Hard to stay positive most days I just hope things kinda plateau and I can try to catch up.

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u/Dill_Pickle_Tears Jun 22 '26

Stay strong broski. That job offer will be around the corner. You can build that financial base and still indulge with .22 range trips first!

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 22 '26

200+ applications/cold calling/cold emailing/walking in to their business for a variety of jobs in like less than 2 months and the best I was able to do was an offer for a job that they lied about over the phone for what it would be (paid at minimum wage of course). 

Maybe if we shoot ourselves in the foot even more economically to spite the Americans things will turn around?

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u/China_bot42069 Jun 22 '26

Ankles up guyz

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u/Uncle_Ted_1942 Jun 23 '26

I feel it. Been unemployed for 4 months. I’ve lost track of how many jobs I’ve applied for. Had 1 politely turn me down after an interview, the rest just ghost.

As soon as my college class graduated our program, govt cut most of the money in our sector and almost nobody is hiring at more than minimum wage. I can’t even fucking volunteer because most of the jobs don’t even exist anymore lmao

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 23 '26

Fucking brutal man. Have you just gone in to the business, shake the owners hand and ask when You start ? That's what the boomers online keep telling me what to do. 

In all seriousness it absolutely destroys the very little bit of mental health you have left, doesnt it? Forget owning a house, land, family, yearly vacations. I want a fucking job where I know by the end kf next month I dont need to pull some bullshit to have money left over. I want to be able to go in to a store, buy my food by only needing to look at the nutrition label, not the fucking price tag. 

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u/Uncle_Ted_1942 Jun 23 '26

I’m 21, still live at home. My father was born on the last year of the baby boomer. He constantly tells me that kind of shit lol one of the jobs he “found” for me was laying concrete for minimum wage 1/2 an hour away.

I work forestry and drive a gas guzzler that refuses to drink anything but premium. I’m used to doing 300 kilometers a day mileage PAID, not 100 kilometers unpaid. I would be putting half my paycheck in the gas tank. It’s the only job in the fucking county I can find though.

I’m just gonna head up to the rez and hit the blackjack tables instead.

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u/HappyCan7250 Jun 24 '26

Time to get into construction man. Learn a trade, even though things have downturned a little.

Company I work for is so desperate for guys they've started offering us $500 for any friends we can get to come work for the company. Even the newest guys with no experience make $25/hr to start. 

Might not be as glamorous as an office job, but maybe start looking outside the field you went to school for. There's good money if you're willing to put in some blood and sweat in blue collar jobs.

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u/Uncle_Ted_1942 Jun 24 '26

I worked forestry until they cut all the jobs. The only construction jobs I’ve found within an hour of me was minimum wage laying concrete, or being the poor bastard holding the slow/stop sign.

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u/gamercast1337 29d ago edited 29d ago

Bro, I went to a college course for a trade, everything you just said is straight cap. They just arent hiring in blue collar jobs either unless you are a red seal/journeyman/ have years of experience. 

Edit: and before you ask its refrigeration & air conditioning, yes I did phenomenal in the course I took literally every additional chance to learn i could and build a great diverse skillset, got honours even got an award in the class. Yes I have been going in person to every business in the city I moved to to drop off resumes, cover letters everything. Ive emailed most of them and need to do a followup email in a few days (so I can get ignored again) yes I have gone to the government resources I can access for this and they are helping with what they can. Yes I have even started applying for general construction jobs, maintenance jobs everything jobs and nothing. 

And I should mention most of the beginning wages for this field, besides the reallllly big unionized companies (in certain roles mind you) starting pay is like 18 an hour. You fucking try to live on 18 an hour.

The trades, bluecollar etc is a scam and im tired of people saying thats where the money is. It isnt.

The only money left to make is to be like a fucking horse cop or other government goon. 

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

Option 1 is make do with the firearms available Option 2 is move to a better country and possibly move back if Canada ever becomes a little free

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 22 '26

I dont believe I have any marketable skills that would assist in moving to another country : ( and the skills i do have i cant turn in to marketable skills because I can't get a job in that trade

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u/Glockinmytacklebox Jun 23 '26

Become a English teacher! I’ve been thinking about leaving to, so I can get a house one day somewhere. I Won’t ever be able to get a house here and have no education beyond high school. But I speaka da engrish

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 23 '26

Genuinely did consider getting that like foreign teaching degree and teaching in places but when I did research it last year, the only place I could realistically do was like, Cambodia i think and thats because I dont have a 4 year degree. It seems almost everywhere else wants you to have a 4 year college/uni diploma just because??

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u/Glockinmytacklebox Jun 23 '26

Yea same for me, unfortunately yea most countries want a 4 year degree of some sorts, I think Vietnam and laos were also an option. I’m Still considering laos

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

What do you do

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 22 '26

Just finished college for a trade, with incredible marks, went above and beyond doing competitions in the trade etc etc. Honours, awards, did it all. No one in this field is hiring, and the ones that are hiring dont seem to want me as i am just a year 1, no working experience within the trade beyond what I got from the course.

Probably going to have to go with my previous career experience of security/law enforcement. Hate me all yall want here (I even hate myself for doing it) but I applied for the pony patrol since that genuinely seems like the only option for me to escape poverty at this point and make something for myself. at least I got like a year until id get in to the rcmp to change my mind so its a backup option. 

But at this current rate my "in demand trade" especially where the government is freaking out about how in demand this trade and any trade in particular is, doesnt appear to actually BE in demand. 

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

What trade is it? And canada is a smaller market wouldnt you have better options somewhere better?

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 22 '26

Refrigeration&air conditioning/hvac/however you want to call this trade.

I imagined my trade would have been in very much demand within my area since theres so many things that use it especially with heatpumps/regular air conditioning becoming more and more popular.

Dont even know where to begin with looking outside of the country for it.

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u/Diligent_Studio6763 Jun 23 '26

That’s crazy that there’s no work for an hvac tech. I’m a plumber and work at a plumbing/heating/cooling company and it’s gotten to the point where I’m having to assist on furnace and AC installs because we don’t have enough hvac techs.

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 23 '26

Enough journeyman/redseals? Or just enough techs in general? Because theres a massive difference.  I cant even get to become an apprentice to begin my journey to become a full tech and yet I keep hearing how in demand they are.

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

Texas baby

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 22 '26

Ive considered it but I dont imagined theyd want me. They also are in a uh... certain type of person mood that canada is in too if you look in to it. 

Lots of benefits for me to move like guns, around more people id agree with politically, guns, Latinas, guns, food costs not being insane, guns, Latinas and uh guns. But id also combust in flames the moment I step off that plane since I do horribly in the heat.

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

Then go alaska lol they love guns and they need their furnaces 💪🏼

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

I did it ass backwards. I moved from the US to Canada and ive felt like ive been put in a chokehold. My friends back in the US dont know how good they have it.

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 22 '26

I do think youre in demand. Every fall when I turn my furnace on I have another damn problem and end up calling one of you guys I think I met every hvac man in my area and every part replaced on my furnace. They are always swamped and making a killing.

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 23 '26

Red seals are wuite in demand, seems like every company i look in to is wanting to get another redseal but not a single one wants to actually MAKE a red seal. I have come across like 2 postings for apprentices, and a never-ending list of journeyman redseals. 

Literally not possible to become a journeyman if I can never begin the journey.

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u/Longjumping_Deer3006 Jun 23 '26

Why didn't you apply for the Military?

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u/hunterofsteelhead Jun 23 '26

The US army will take a canadian if they get a green card

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u/gamercast1337 Jun 24 '26

Canadian military? Did it before didnt get in , considering it again but at the same time idk if I want to serve this government. 

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u/Fuck_you_all22 24d ago

Things have to get much worse before people realize they have been fed bullshit and brainwashed. Until then, hang in there. We are all in this together. 

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u/Lumindan Jun 22 '26

Give it time, it's all we have now that things are the way they are.

Keep putting your resume out there, law of averages will kick in at some point.