Thought I might add that Fort Mac isnt your only option with a welding ticket. The oil patch is booming everywhere. Lots of opportunities for skilled workers where they will fly you in and out of camp for two or three week stints. People are even being flown in from out of province. If a job is all you want, you may not even have to move.
Our summers are nowhere near as hot as Barrie’s, in fact they are pretty cool for the most part. Personally it is my intention to leave Calgary in the not to distant future for some place closer to real swimming.
Yee gods, woman, these lakes are all glacier melt fed! When I soaked my tired feet in Bow lake, it felt like it would give even a polar bear a case of hypothermia (and me a heart attack) !
But then again, anything below 80F is too cold for comfortable swimming, imho
Now can someone tell me where all these huge SUVs towing expensive powerboats on Country Hills are going???
I see some new names here. We need another dopefest to meet all the new folks. June works well for SeriousLark and I.
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Congrats on graduations!
Don’t worry about driving the wrong way downtown, it’s a rite of passage for new Calgarians. I know 2 other people who’ve done it, as well as your truly. :o
Hi Opal!
4 We’re almost neighbors! (We live near the Superstore!)
As for the welding , for the folks who mentioned it. There are differences in industrial areas of welding ,with the only common thread being welding. For the most part in Ontario , at least , most welding is done in fab shops that cater to the sheet metal industry, construction is generally an iron worker type trade, going from site to site, putting up factorys and apartment buildings and what not. I expect that the oil industry is more geared towards pipefitting.
There is a place not to far from me right now , so i am gonna check in and see what its gonna cost to reactivate my ticket.
I have to agree with the warehouse job assessment. I just applied for two jobs in warehouse work, had two interviews and had two offers, both starting at$13.25 an hour. I was actually offered the one job right after my interview ended. I have about six months all told of warehouse experience, and I’ll be getting full bennies, three weeks vacation and guaranteed raises every six months. It still blows my mind, as I moved from Prince George, BC, which had an unemployment rate of about 14%. All jobs were minimum wage, and for every twenty resumes you put out, you were lucky to get one interview. And I’m talking about places like gas stations and video stores, never mind actual jobs.
I think that one of our Tim Horton’s is paying something like $13.00 an hour right now.
Some of my best memories are of swimming in the Sheep River on an August day sighs Man I miss summer camp. I wonder if it got wrecked by the floods last year though, it was right next to the river.
What do you want to know? I actually live really close to it, though I catch the bus to go further down where all the shops are. I don’t go that often, but it’s always nice for a wander on a nice day. I don’t bother with the bars there, nor the whole Red Mile frenzy (but then I’m not a huge bar scene type, I can count on one hand the number of places I’ve been to here in town).
I went swimming in that lake just inside Kananaskis park - Barrier Lake, that’s it - cold, but not too cold. Later in the season they get about as warm as they’re going to. I went swimming in a lake in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon (Pike Lake, I believe it was) - it was so warm, we couldn’t cool down from the super-hot day. Blech. I’ll take the glacier-fed lakes over blood-warm lakes.
Lake Chestermere?
We should start a Dopefest thread. Jim and I still want to check out that Thai place.
I love the 17th Ave area and refuse to call it the red mile.
Off & on I’ve lived in the neighbourhood since I left home. To me it is a homey inner city neighbourhood of artists, musicians, and other creative types - every time I go to the safeway or co-op I see someone I know. On weekend afternoons walking down the Ave., I’ll see another 4 or 5 friends.
On a Saturday afternoon the jam at the Ship & Anchor is a neighbourhood pub for the inner city crowd, not the trendy, tatooed & pierced meat market it is on Friday & Saturday nights. There are some interesting little shops, some good restaurants, coffee shops, and it can be fun to just take up a park bench and people watch. I’m close to bike paths, transit, Lindsey Park, downtown, and I don’t ever need to drive. I don’t think I’d want to leave the neighbourhood ever again. 17th Ave. is great!
Red Mile was a bunch of kids who didn’t watch the game getting very drunk, making noise and then pissing & puking in my alley at 3 AM (2 blocks off 17th Ave). That I didn’t like.
Hey no fair a Calgary Dopefest scheudled right after I leave town for the summer
I should mention that one of my favorite things about Calgary is the free transit zone downtown. I live on the edge of the free fare zone and work on the other end. I never have to pay for the train.
Yeah, that’s the one! I know Jim and I can go on our own; it just doesn’t seem to be happening.
So, trupa, are Thursdays still the best days for you and Serious Lark? I’ll see if I can get Jim’s slo-pitch and baseball schedules and see what he has open in June.
Not really. I’m just not big on all that stuff. It is nice as a place to hang out though, just in general. But I like to window shop so 17th or Kensington are some of my favourite places to browse.
Thai sounds yummy! Just set a date and if I am free/convince Mom to babysit I’ll be there with bells on.
