its official

[Myka]

Oh sure...the Interior gets an interesting new reefer, and I moved away!

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Myka

Oh sure...the Interior gets an interesting new reefer, and I moved away!

interesting.. hmmm I'll take that as a complament I hope.

the interesting part thought is what I am going to do for work.. as I haven't got a clue LOL.. I figured I would just be retired till after christmas then look for something.. I am getting my class 1 this summer just incase though.

Steve

[Myka]

Interesting as in one of the more knowlegable peeps on the board.

I got my Class 3 last September and worked all winter on the oil rigs. Now that was good money! I got laid off along with 95% of the oilfield in mid-March. Couldn't find a Class 3 job, so I got my Class 1 a month ago. Still tough to find a decent paying job with little experience. Don't count on the Class 1 getting you good income...it's tough to do when you have no experience. About 75% of the companies won't even look at your resume if you have less than 2 years experience, and most of the companies that will hire people with little or no experience are P&D peddle runs (hand bombing...very tough work). I was lucky enough to find a job that pays the same as peddle runs, but I don't work near as hard. I transfer trailers from yard to yard across the city for Maple Leaf. It's a lot of getting out and coupling/uncoupling, so it keeps me fit, which I like, but it's not slave labor either!!

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Myka

Don't count on the Class 1 getting you good income...it's tough to do when you have no experience. About 75% of the companies won't even look at your resume if you have less than 2 years experience, and most of the companies that will hire people with little or no experience are P&D peddle runs (hand bombing...very tough work). I was lucky enough to find a job that pays the same as peddle runs, but I don't work near as hard. I transfer trailers from yard to yard across the city for Maple Leaf. It's a lot of getting out and coupling/uncoupling, so it keeps me fit, which I like, but it's not slave labor either!!

I got a in. was told if I get my class 1, I can have a job driving regional (between west coast and alberta) when ever I want to start, just not sure if thats what I want to do yet. got a line on driving school bus also, but also wanted it to cover any other class as there are a few jobs I am looking at that want you to have a class 3 to drive the work trucks.. but I may just go back to school. I am lucky in the way that I have my pension from the millitary so I don't have to make a killing just a deicent wage.

Steve

[Myka]

Ya I want to make a killing. I'm young, I need to. I had all sorts of ins, but when it really came down to it there is such a slow up in the economy right now that my ins didn't work. Ha!

[wolf_bluejay]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I got a in. was told if I get my class 1, I can have a job driving regional (between west coast and alberta) when ever I want to start, just not sure if thats what I want to do yet. got a line on driving school bus also, but also wanted it to cover any other class as there are a few jobs I am looking at that want you to have a class 3 to drive the work trucks.. but I may just go back to school. I am lucky in the way that I have my pension from the millitary so I don't have to make a killing just a deicent wage.

Steve

I always get a chuckle out of the whole school bus driver thing -- they say the number one requirement to driver school bus is "grey hair" (I know most of the drivers around here). Plus -- it may sound crazy (and don't quote me), but it always helps to mention salt water reefing to one of the guys that you talk to about being a school bus driver wink wink, nudge nudge. The hours do suck a bit (early mornings) but those that do actually like the work they do. That, and the Kamloops/thompson school district runs one of the largest bus fleets around as it's pretty big geographically.

[reef bound]

I may have missed it, but where did you end up in Kamloops? Was it the Dallas place or some other one? Wherever, WELCOME!

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reef bound

I may have missed it, but where did you end up in Kamloops? Was it the Dallas place or some other one? Wherever, WELCOME!

nope, just relized I never posted where LOL.

ya it is in Dallas but on the river side of the hi-way off the pat road turnoff.

Steve

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by wolf_bluejay

I always get a chuckle out of the whole school bus driver thing -- they say the number one requirement to driver school bus is "grey hair"

hmm, I am realy starting to resemble that requirment

Steve

[reef bound]

Nice choice, on the river side. You'll get lots of sun over there.