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/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.