The Alberta Economy

[EmilyB]

What are your thoughts on the future ? With economists predicting a deficit of 100,000 workers in ten years, this is going to be a wild ride.

I know I'm seeing it all around me,... workers leaving jobs for better pay, all the lower paid jobs begging for workers. No way to hire out of province/country because there is no place for them to live.

Fast food going downhill rapidly........

[Willow]

maybe we could send you back some of your homeless that ralph bought bus tickets for. just to help out, fairs fair right?

[Buccaneer]

ooooh ... bitter

We have some more laying around on the streets downtown ... what address do we send them to again ?

As to the question ... I am in the homebuilding industry and we are seeing a massive migration to the area ... the problem is we keep losing workers to the oil industry or commercial projects downtown so the cost of building a new home keeps getting pushed higher and higher to meet the salary demands of the workers in the trades

[kari]

Re: fast food

I heard there's a BK near Chinook that is only open for drive thru due to not being able to hire staff. One of our office clerks just quit after a few days to go work at MacDonalds for more

[Ruth]

I think the "minimum" wage here is somewhere around $12-14 even for kids 14 to work at McDonalds. Hotels can't rent out rooms because they cannot find anyone to clean rooms. It's pretty crazy. I have half done reno's in my house - not because I have not paid top dollar but just because they have so much work they cannot get back out to my place.

[Quagmire]

My lease is up in Oct.Depending on how high my rent gets jacked,I may leave for BC.I make good $$$$ but if Im paying it all out for rent,its better to go somewhere else.

[AJ_77]

Originally Posted by Quagmire

I may leave for BC.I make good $$$$ but if Im paying it all out for rent,its better to go somewhere else.

There's work in BC? Tell us where!

[Midknight]

Everywhere, what do you do? Lots of jobs in Vancouver.

[mr_alberta]

Any leads on programming jobs? My brother is currently looking for work in the Vancouver area in that field.

[Midknight]

http://www.topproducer.com/Careers/listings.asp

Tell them Dan Anderson sent you. There is a bounty on good workers.