Originally Posted by Jsmth321

Janitor seems to vary quite a lot, anywhere from min wage to 50k a year, depending on who is employing you, government's tend to pay more, but difficult to get. I do check on Vancouver School board job site, and other government job sites, and do apply for some of the jobs, I have not gotten interviews but I do apply. School board currently only has skilled jobs, but if anyone is a teacher they seem to be hiring at the moment, I hear there is a shortage of teachers, wage is too low to live in Vancouver comfortably.


I did apply to rail road jobs as they seem to pay well, never do well on the assessment test though, so never get to an interview stage. A lot of mechanical reasoning stuff so apparently I don't have good mechanical reasoning...lol.

Thought since I like trains that it might be an interesting job, and pay seems decent. Have had a few co-workers who have left my company to go work for the rail road.

Just trying to obtain something that is more transferable skill wise so we can try and move somewhere lower housing cost and maybe buy someday, even if made 50k a year that is not enough to make Vancouver work but would be not a bad wage in some other areas of BC.

I would go to the US for school and take the aquarium science degree offered in Oregon, would love to work at an aquarium. The requirements some I can meet but others I can't specifically having a high GPA and having 2 academic references, they don't have an adult entry stream, and when I talked to them 3 years ago, average GPA on acceptance was 3.7

My high school GPA was 2.1 or 2.2 and well it was 21 years ago so its not acceptable anyhow, I would need a few years of college under my belt, I really don't think I could get a high GPA, I am a C student, solid C student, got a spattering of A's in BS classes but any serious class, C's and difficult classes like math, never passed, I never passed a math class from grade 7 to 12.

I wish I knew why my brain can't remember material well, and why I don't do well in school, sure wasn't from a lack of trying, not sure I could have tried any harder.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

Well, now I know why we've not seen it for a month. Minnesota is a long way on foot.

Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy

A publicity stunt if ever I saw one. Who's building was the beast scaling? Next they'll be resorting to tree slugs.

Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy

A publicity stunt if ever I saw one. Who's building was the beast scaling? Next they'll be resorting to tree slugs.

Originally Posted by caretaker

They are incredibly tenacious;

Originally Posted by Siouxie

https://recruiting.ultipro.ca/VAN500...postedDateDesc
https://cisnd.simplication.com/Appli...ocale=en&MAF=0
https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c70...rom=serp&vjs=3
Job Posting - School District #60 (Peace River North) CUSTODIAN - REPLACEMENT STEP #1 -COMPETITION NO. #13-190
https://cn360.csod.com/ats/careersit...site=1&c=cn360

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

Gonna be 28 next week.

Why do they not put a/c in apartments....grrrr

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

Gonna be 28 next week.

Why do they not put a/c in apartments....grrrr

Originally Posted by Siouxie

I realise it's probably not attainable right now, but perhaps look out for one of these - maybe 2nd hand?

Originally Posted by BristolUK

I never realised those things needed an exhaust/vent feature
I thought they were simply an alternative to the window version because you didn't have the 'right' sort of window.

Originally Posted by Siouxie

Yes, but you can put the hose out of the window (or both, if it's a double hose one.. though those aren't as efficient, I've found. Single hose ones suck the room air into the machine and pump the hot air to the outside) ... -the hoses are about 2-4" around, easily boxed in with the window kit supplied (or some cardboard and tape), and suitable for any type of window as long as it can open!

Originally Posted by BristolUK

We have aircon/heatpump, but sometimes my bedroom gets a bit warm despite that. A fan would do but a bit noisy and I imagine these portable things are quieter.

But my windows are sort of square with a turning handle that opens half, door-like and a mozzie screen on the inside part of the window.
Not sure how the screen part would work with a hose. I mean, I could imagine cutting an appropriate hole but I don't think it would be good for the screen especially when you weren't using the hose.

Originally Posted by Siouxie

I realise it's probably not attainable right now, but perhaps look out for one of these - maybe 2nd hand? (Costco seem to have quite a few different brands)

https://www.costco.ca/TCL-10%2c000-B...100405518.html

Originally Posted by Oakvillian

Until I read the second sentence, I was thinking "Oh, happy birthday for next week, JS - but I thought you were older than that!"

Then I realized you were talking about temperatures

Originally Posted by BristolUK

I never realised those things needed an exhaust/vent feature
I thought they were simply an alternative to the window version because you didn't have the 'right' sort of window.