Bankruptcy questions

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Yeah it bugs me when I started in the trades it was $20 an hour top dog wage in the 1990s, now the kids laugh at ya if they don’t get $30 to start with no skills yet wtf?

My first welding job was $5.50hr. But I worked my ass off and the boss gave me $6. My first j-man job was $21hr. We now have a welder at my shop that thinks he needs $40hr, he didn’t know to get the shop in 4x4 or that you needed to turn it on to see how much fuel was in the tank. He thought it should read the amount of fuel even when it’s turned off. He’s the managers son. They kept him instead of me.
 

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My first welding job was $5.50hr. But I worked my ass off and the boss gave me $6. My first j-man job was $21hr. We now have a welder at my shop that thinks he needs $40hr, he didn’t know to get the shop in 4x4 or that you needed to turn it on to see how much fuel was in the tank. He thought it should read the amount of fuel even when it’s turned off. He’s the managers son. They kept him instead of me.

its not always what you know...... sometimes its who you bl0w
 

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1989 - Paper Route 110 customers approx $1.25 per week per customer
1991 Burger king in Halifax NS, $4.25/hr
1993 Pizza Hut Saint John NB, $4.80/hr
1995 Hamilton Olson Survey, Edmonton Alberta $11.50/hr
1997 International Cooling Tower, Edmonton Alberta $16.00/hr By 2002 I was doing On-Site Safety for ICT @ Scotford $35/hr
2002-2005 - Syncrude UE1, Fort McMurray - STUPID $$$$
2006 - Back in Edmonton Mon-Fri Construction Safety $25/hr

At this point I just hope I have a job come Monday.....
 
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1989 - Paper Route 110 customers approx $1.25 per week per customer
1991 Burger king in Halifax NS, $4.25/hr
1993 Pizza Hut Saint John NB, $4.80/hr
1995 Hamilton Olson Survey, Edmonton Alberta $11.50/hr
1997 International Cooling Tower, Edmonton Alberta $16.00/hr By 2002 I was doing On-Site Safety for ICT @ Scotford $35/hr
2002-2005 - Syncrude UE1, Fort McMurray - STUPID $$$$
2006 - Back in Edmonton Mon-Fri Construction Safety $25/hr

At this point I just hope I have a job come Monday.....
Ahh yeah forgot about doing papers WORST job ever, and collecting was awful too.
 

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Ahh yeah forgot about doing papers WORST job ever, and collecting was awful too.

Yah it was a pretty chitty job, I loved it in the good weather, used a scooter with paper bag on the bars, Fairview was on a hill so I had my drops set up that the heaviest volume was for my downhill parts..... Collections sucked from about 20% some others were great, I had some who would tip $5 every 2 week pay period, that was as much as they paid for the paper itself.... I did that crap from grade 8 until grade 10 when I got my BK gig
 

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i dropped a resume off at sobeys today to stock shelves, 15.50 an hour lol.
What was minimum wage for you guys back in the day? I remember working for 4.90 an hour then got bumped up to 5.50 I think shortly after in 2001?
I stocked shelves at IGA back before it was Sobeys in ~2001 for 5.90 an hour.
 

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started the printing trade back in 1975 at 1.65 hour the boss paid us all with cash in an envelope made a whole 62.00 a week bought my first car with monthly payments of 12.00 a month
 

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Started in the trades at a hydraulic shop for $14 an hour in 2006. Jman rate was $21 at that shop. In 2019 the Jman rate at the SK mine I was working at was 4x of what I started at Back in 2006. Unfortunately it shut down. Now I’m starting my own business. I Probably won’t even see $14 an hour. BBBUUUTTTTT not having 41% deductions on my pay cheque will be pretty nice. Im tired of being taxed to death.
 

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Started in the trades at a hydraulic shop for $14 an hour in 2006. Jman rate was $21 at that shop. In 2019 the Jman rate at the SK mine I was working at was 4x of what I started at Back in 2006. Unfortunately it shut down. Now I’m starting my own business. I Probably won’t even see $14 an hour. BBBUUUTTTTT not having 41% deductions on my pay cheque will be pretty nice. Im tired of being taxed to death.

Those deductions are still there, they are just spread out differently and have different names
 

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Strted as a roughneck on a drilling rig for $10/hr. Was pumped when got a $2 raise when promoted to Motorman. Just for chits and giggles what do those peeps make now on a rig?
 

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1990 I started apprenticing for 12 bux a hour. My first cheque was 1200 bux I thought it was a mistake had to ask the boss if it was right. I partied like a rockstar. Lol.
 

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Pumped gas at a small town Gulf gas station/automotive repair shop. This was during high school. I think it was like 3.75 hour.
Ended up doing apprenticeship for automotive mechanic. That was a long time ago.
 

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1986 started logging $18 hr
2020 still logging. $18 hr
not sure what happens here.
It's like the farmer joke where the gov't shows up to talk to the employees. So the guy he's talking to says yeah there's 2 employees Bill works 45hrs a week and makes $25/hr and the other retard works 150hrs/week for $9/hr. Gov't says yeah I want to talk to that guy. Guy says that's me and I'm the owner.
 
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