tyrannicalrex said:

Dude, I was in bars and rest. for 34 years, I feel your pain! I did dishwashing to management. Much respect to you for doing what you got to do! KUDOS!

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NOUS333 said:

kr0nik0 said:

Have you considered just leaving the workforce completely and living off grid?
It sounds like you're absolutely miserable every day revolving your life around a job you hate.  man...
For around $4-5k you could buy a decent parcel of land out there, as well as an older camper for a temporary home. It's something that has to be entrepreneurial of course. But when faced with nature as your only source of income, humans have an incredible ability to adapt. Not only feed themselves, but make money using the land.

i.e. Make the trek to near Banff since you're in Alberta, forage and sell gourmet mushrooms for a living. It's great money, and with bills only being propane and water in a camper, you can eventually save up to buy or build a home on your own land.

I say all this because I've seen friends successfully move to this lifestyle from 9-5 and restaurant jobs. It's just a matter of it being something that you really want to do with your life.

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So you havent done any of this yourself?

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Lophosaurus said:

Sorry, but you're just making excuses and want people to feel bad for you. If you live in Alberta then hitch, jump a train, or hike to a new city and make something for yourself, or just keep making hot dogs. I'm sure there are better jobs than hot dogs in your area anyways. Have you called every construction company in your area?

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Lol, wow... Some people who don't have children

Its not that easy when you have 2 little girls, I'm not about to hop a train with my kids to get to greener pastures, it's really not that easy.

20 years ago I hopped trains, hitchhiked all over canada, all that fun stuff... Nowadays that's not exactly realistic for me, like at all...

And you don't think I was looking for other work before the hotdog place?... Give your head a shake man, if I had any other choice, I can tell you right now, I wouldn't be slingin fucking hotdogs to drunks.

I'm sure it won't last long, this is just to fill in the time until something better comes up.

I didn't wake up one day and be like "hey, you know what?, I want to sell hotdogs to drunks"

LuSiD9 said:

I live in butfuck nowhere Alberta and don't drive... The opportunities aren't exactly ripe out here.

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My grandad is from Alberta and him and his family moved when he was a boy to south Gloucestershire (uk) think id rather have stayed in Alberta tbh

Lophosaurus said:

Sorry, but you're just making excuses and want people to feel bad for you. If you live in Alberta then hitch, jump a train, or hike to a new city and make something for yourself, or just keep making hot dogs. I'm sure there are better jobs than hot dogs in your area anyways. Have you called every construction company in your area?

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LuSiD9 said:

Lophosaurus said:

Sorry, but you're just making excuses and want people to feel bad for you. If you live in Alberta then hitch, jump a train, or hike to a new city and make something for yourself, or just keep making hot dogs. I'm sure there are better jobs than hot dogs in your area anyways. Have you called every construction company in your area?

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Lol, wow... Some people who don't have children

Its not that easy when you have 2 little girls, I'm not about to hop a train with my kids to get to greener pastures, it's really not that easy.

20 years ago I hopped trains, hitchhiked all over canada, all that fun stuff... Nowadays that's not exactly realistic for me, like at all...

And you don't think I was looking for other work before the hotdog place?... Give your head a shake man, if I had any other choice, I can tell you right now, I wouldn't be slingin fucking hotdogs to drunks.

I'm sure it won't last long, this is just to fill in the time until something better comes up.

I didn't wake up one day and be like "hey, you know what?, I want to sell hotdogs to drunks"

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Lophosaurus said:

You do what you have to do to survive

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wtf do you think I'm doing?

Sure I could just get up and go, but here's the thing... I don't live with their mother anymore, and I like to spend time with my kids, like as much as possible... If I move to the nearest 'city' which is about 3-4 hours away, which is Lethbridge, an absolute meth/fentynal ridden shithole right now, with very few job oppurtunities anyway, I'd never see my kids... We don't even have greyhound anymore.

You seem to think I can just get up and go, and things would get better... That's not really the case at this point in my life.

Again, this is a temporary situation, I'm even still technically employed at my steelwork gig, we just have nothing going on right now, I have no plans on leaving as of yet... my boss there is the tits, I love my co-workers and I get a very real satisfaction seeing a huge building that we ourselves built from the ground up where there wasn't one before.

I'm willing to wait for now... Yes this sucks, it really does... But, I'm doing what I have to do

tyrannicalrex said:

WTF is up with all you people bashing this person for doing some work so he can spend time with his kids? Why the fuck is slinging food a bad thing? Who the fuck do you think you are people?

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mycosis said:

Every ironworker since the history of ironwork has had to travel for work at one time or another. Ironworkers do not have the luxury of working 20 minutes from their homes most of the time.

That being said if I was inclined to climb around and weld for a living I could have five jobs this evening and more than that tomorrow with a few calls.

There is so much work going on right now the union does house calls on the weekends trying to recruit help.

I know quite a lot of real ironworkers and none of them would sit at home or go to work fixing hotdogs.

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