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I have a couple police folk in my extended social circle, but mostly older , because they are in my social circle. 2 retired RCMP, 1 current Peel sargent , 2 Toronto police service, 1 retired TPS. actually a lot of police in my group. None seem to regret the job except the Pell sargent who hates it. It does come with an awesome pension , specially the red coat job.
I'd pick plumber over millwright, simply because I could never work in a plant or factory again, did it very briefly early on. Hard no.

casual friend owns a plumbing company , small setup and specializes in remedial work , removing Kitec plumbing , the predicessor to PEX and now not insurable in a house. Mon/Fri gig , has not touched a waste pipe in 15yrs, seems to do quite well. Seems happy.
 
Was just talking with a buddy in Istanbul. We worked together in a past life for the same manufacturer.

I took the consulting / engineering route, and he took the entrepreneur route with another friend. They have built their business from the 2 of them being suppliers for large manufacturers in heavy civil construction to approximately 200 people working in a plant, supplying components, manpower, and refurbishing large machines.

They've now expanded to the US, and are doing jobs in Eastern and Western Europe.

All within a span of 5 years.

A small part of me is super jealous I don't have that drive / knowledge / skill. But I have a fairly stress free work life balance. He's got a fat bank account.
 
ToSlow said:
Is your friend doing any hiring?
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If you live in Istanbul, Romania, or the UK...maybe.

They're just in the process of opening up an office in Texas.

EDIT: I've actually toyed with the idea of being their independent rep here in Canada for their tools / equipment. But that's a financial risk I cannot make considering financial obligations. If I could figure a way to do it part time / from home, sign me up.
 
crankcall said:
Plumbing: water flows best downhill , pay day is friday , dont lick your fingers . Congrats you've completed 3 years of the 5 year apprentice program.
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When I left the car business for water and wastewater industry my boss said the following:

'Remember, poo always goes downhill. The rest is easy'
 
mimico_polak said:
When I left the car business for water and wastewater industry my boss said the following:

'Remember, poo always goes downhill. The rest is easy'
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Funny you say that, i have my oit for all four categories. Hard to get a job in the water industry
 
Buddy of mine has been mentoring me on stock day trading. It's not for everyone but if you keep your trader account low, learn the patterns and go in with a good set of rules (and stay within them) you can do just fine and work whenever you want. Just do some paper trading while you learn so it's risk-free.
Again not for everyone but in the time you waste scrolling the socials you could learn a nice income generator.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Buddy of mine has been mentoring me on stock day trading. It's not for everyone but if you keep your trader account low, learn the patterns and go in with a good set of rules (and stay within them) you can do just fine and work whenever you want. Just do some paper trading while you learn so it's risk-free.
Again not for everyone but in the time you waste scrolling the socials you could learn a nice income generator.
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Be super careful with that came. CRA is coming after daytraders and calling it undeclared business income. It generates a lot less income when the government grabs 60% of the wins.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
Buddy of mine has been mentoring me on stock day trading. It's not for everyone but if you keep your trader account low, learn the patterns and go in with a good set of rules (and stay within them) you can do just fine and work whenever you want. Just do some paper trading while you learn so it's risk-free.
Again not for everyone but in the time you waste scrolling the socials you could learn a nice income generator.
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There's a course available, near, or in Toronto.
During trading hours, tune into youtube "live" and you can watch them trade in real time, real money......they never say how many shares, or how much they 'invest' in any trades though.
 
crankcall said:
Plumbing: water flows best downhill , pay day is friday , dont lick your fingers . Congrats you've completed 3 years of the 5 year apprentice program.
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According to a friend in the family plumbing business, it's Water flows downhill, **** stinks, and Friday is a half day.
 
mimico_polak said:
Was just talking with a buddy in Istanbul. We worked together in a past life for the same manufacturer.

I took the consulting / engineering route, and he took the entrepreneur route with another friend. They have built their business from the 2 of them being suppliers for large manufacturers in heavy civil construction to approximately 200 people working in a plant, supplying components, manpower, and refurbishing large machines.

They've now expanded to the US, and are doing jobs in Eastern and Western Europe.

All within a span of 5 years.

A small part of me is super jealous I don't have that drive / knowledge / skill. But I have a fairly stress free work life balance. He's got a fat bank account.
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Growing up one of my best friends' dad owned a furniture business. Somewhere along the way he started selling/furnishing to a maple leaf or two. After a while he had players from across a generation buying furniture from him. His son, my friend got into finance and was a broker for high dollar investors at John Hancock. As in unless they had at least $10 million invested with them, JH weren't interested in investing their money.

He married a girl whose parents were immigrants to Canada and started off in farming in BC. Having worked hard, physical labor for decades they retired early but got bored after a few years and got into the grocery store business. My friend is now an owner/manager of a grocery store. It's way more hours and headaches but he's also making a lot more than he used to at JH. Basically way more income but the business owns him. He's regularly gone a month or two of twelve plus hour days with maybe a day off a week. Always headaches with suppliers, staff, etc. Once lost like $20k in product because a refrigeration tech forgot to turn a breaker back on after doing some work. Never got anything back for it. Got a $5k shipment that was entirely unsellable. Too bad and still have to do business with him because there are only three main large suppliers and he can't afford to lose one of them. Granted I'm pretty sure he probably makes five times more than I do equivalent a year.

I'm way too much of a wuss to be a business owner in terms of risk. And no way in hell I'm going to work a job where I can't set my own hours with no requirement for OT. Weekends? Midnight shifts? In office everyday? No thanks. In my profession and with my skills and experience, I can have a pretty cushy work life balance even if I'll never see the millions and millions a business owner can. I'd rather be making comfortably $100-200K per year with a comfortable work life balance over ten times that and the stress and time investment of a successful business owner. Your mileage may vary.
 
It’s quite interesting to me , seeing what has changed in the workplace and expectation.
The new Gen 25-30 ish want balance over hustle , we call it lazy they call it smart .
We had a “town hall” meeting with our new owner group Thursday . On their slides was a message about our concern for the planet. Yeah, and I’m in the forest products business .
They work to gain and have experience and experiences. I work to afford a bigger sailboat . The carbon footprint of my carbon fiber boat is a disaster.

I think it’s great that the two gens behind me are actually taking job/ life equations seriously . I hope they are happy in thier work .


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My day job is team leader with a certain federal agency whose employees have just voted to strike. The job is meh; the pay is meh; benefits are on-par with similar office jobs, and the pension is supposed to be good, but I'm still a ways off and who know what happens by then.

My hobby job for the last 20+ years has been teaching kids (teenagers) how to fly gliders. Pay is pretty much a non-factor, but it allows me to stay connected to aviation, mingle with and live vicariously through "real" pilots, and sometimes wear a uniform.
 
Sailplane tutor (y) ....cool...many fine memories. SOSA?
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My fav plane at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington. BTW that's a really good long weekend destination. Shuttle, Blackbird, Enola Gay, Concorde and many more there.
You don't have to drive into Washington ...it's on the outskirts.

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Oh yeah go for a ride at SOSA or York Soaring near the Forks.

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I’ve spent some time at SOSA watching gliders and the competitive flights . I’d say those guys are real pilots .


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