Has your office / company laid people off or are you expecting layoffs? PART 8

[vengie]

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I've been on temporary layoff since April. I finally decided to call it quits this week and took the severance instead of another 2 month layoff extension. I don't see there being another 30 years of a career in drilling fluids in southern Alberta or Saskatchewan, and I don't want to work anywhere else so I'm going to have to make a change at some point and now is as good a time as any.

In January I'll start taking class 1A training. It's $10,000 if you're going to pay for it yourself, but if you're on EI and they approve your application it's free. I don't think a 1A is worth $10,000 for me but it's worth more than 0. I figure I have the time and the opportunity now so I might as well do it.

Good luck to you!

The only reason the 1A is so expensive is due to the mandatory in truck training hours prior to being licensed.
Which is a very great step change.

I have seen far too many licensed drivers come through the door and barely be able to drive an unloaded unit, let alone a loaded unit.
It was actually quite scary, at our company I was involved in an internal training system prior to allowing drivers to drive on their own. This was after a winter up North running the project and having some very rookie drivers sent to me.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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I've been on temporary layoff since April. I finally decided to call it quits this week and took the severance instead of another 2 month layoff extension. I don't see there being another 30 years of a career in drilling fluids in southern Alberta or Saskatchewan, and I don't want to work anywhere else so I'm going to have to make a change at some point and now is as good a time as any.

In January I'll start taking class 1A training. It's $10,000 if you're going to pay for it yourself, but if you're on EI and they approve your application it's free. I don't think a 1A is worth $10,000 for me but it's worth more than 0. I figure I have the time and the opportunity now so I might as well do it.

I was half way through the applications to get that done when I was on EI a really long time ago. I've regretted not getting it, ever since because it's just a door that's always open. My friend in university was making great weekend money hauling ash from the coal power plants and I was missing out.
You are making a good choice. And fuck those dildo polishers at Goodyear, too!

[tonytiger55]

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I've been on temporary layoff since April. I finally decided to call it quits this week and took the severance instead of another 2 month layoff extension. I don't see there being another 30 years of a career in drilling fluids in southern Alberta or Saskatchewan, and I don't want to work anywhere else so I'm going to have to make a change at some point and now is as good a time as any.

In January I'll start taking class 1A training. It's $10,000 if you're going to pay for it yourself, but if you're on EI and they approve your application it's free. I don't think a 1A is worth $10,000 for me but it's worth more than 0. I figure I have the time and the opportunity now so I might as well do it.

Good luck and post on how you get on. Thats not a bad idea at all.
I looked at doing this last year but I was lucky in getting a job.

[SKR]

Thank you sirs or madams. Since I've been off I've realized how much I hated my job lately. I'm happier than I've been in years. I don't jump when the phone rings anymore. I don't have nightmares about fucked up displacements or loser company men anymore (although I did have one the other night). I haven't been sleepwalking lately like I do when the cumulative stress starts to overwhelm me. It's been great. I feel a little guilty because I should be depressed, but I'm not. I'll miss parts of it, but the constant feeling of a boot on your throat is something I'll be glad to leave behind.

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Good luck to you!

The only reason the 1A is so expensive is due to the mandatory in truck training hours prior to being licensed.
Which is a very great step change.

I have seen far too many licensed drivers come through the door and barely be able to drive an unloaded unit, let alone a loaded unit.
It was actually quite scary, at our company I was involved in an internal training system prior to allowing drivers to drive on their own. This was after a winter up North running the project and having some very rookie drivers sent to me.

Yeah I think an 8 week course is going to be better for me than the way it was. It'll be good to take the time to learn the right way, rather than just relying on bad habits picked up on the farm. Having to double clutch is going to be a big challenge for me. "Drinking beers and floating gears" has always been my motto.

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I was half way through the applications to get that done when I was on EI a really long time ago. I've regretted not getting it, ever since because it's just a door that's always open. My friend in university was making great weekend money hauling ash from the coal power plants and I was missing out.
You are making a good choice. And fuck those dildo polishers at Goodyear, too!

Goodyear, I forgot about those fuckers. Yeah fuck them.

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Good luck and post on how you get on. Thats not a bad idea at all.
I looked at doing this last year but I was lucky in getting a job.

Yeah it makes quite a bit of sense to get it now I think and see what happens. I'm enrolled in a 1 year machinist program at SIAST in the fall. I've applied to the same program at SAIT too just for the simplicity of not having to switch my license and vehicles and shit over to Saskatchewan. I haven't heard yet if I'm accepted into SAIT yet though. So if I decide being a professional gear jammer isn't for me there's a Plan C.

[Buster]

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Thank you sirs or madams. Since I've been off I've realized how much I hated my job lately. I'm happier than I've been in years. I don't jump when the phone rings anymore. I don't have nightmares about fucked up displacements or loser company men anymore (although I did have one the other night). I haven't been sleepwalking lately like I do when the cumulative stress starts to overwhelm me. It's been great. I feel a little guilty because I should be depressed, but I'm not. I'll miss parts of it, but the constant feeling of a boot on your throat is something I'll be glad to leave behind.



Yeah I think an 8 week course is going to be better for me than the way it was. It'll be good to take the time to learn the right way, rather than just relying on bad habits picked up on the farm. Having to double clutch is going to be a big challenge for me. "Drinking beers and floating gears" has always been my motto.



Goodyear, I forgot about those fuckers. Yeah fuck them.



Yeah it makes quite a bit of sense to get it now I think and see what happens. I'm enrolled in a 1 year machinist program at SIAST in the fall. I've applied to the same program at SAIT too just for the simplicity of not having to switch my license and vehicles and shit over to Saskatchewan. I haven't heard yet if I'm accepted into SAIT yet though. So if I decide being a professional gear jammer isn't for me there's a Plan C.

What was your original career.

[danno]

my dad is a long haul trucker and has been doing it since the early 80's, he is finally winding down at 61 should've been retired this year past year. i think lots of semi's are auto these days. good luck

[SKR]

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What was your original career.

Drilling fluid technician. All field work on drilling rigs.

[The_Rural_Juror]

I am inspired by SKR to professionally retire and go back to school to get something useful like a high school diploma, an MBA ,or something. I dunno.

[jaylo]

Getting an education is the best investment that you can do, given the current situation.

In 2015 I went back to school to get a degree and it has given me way more opportunities than just carrying a diploma.
I did lose 2 years of income, lived frugally but worth it in the long run.

[legendboy]

My dream of becoming an automation electrician dissolved after talking with my contacts at Siemens, Convirgint, Techmation etc. I took a job at a motor rewind shop and that only lasted 2 months until they got slow.
I am starting a new job in Jan as a "machine build specialist". Very excited and the staff are an A-Team of engineers, machinists and fabricators. As an uneducated EPCM vendor PM being my career for the last 18 years and spending most of the last year unemployed I had a hard time coming to terms with the fact that all my professional skills honed during my career were null and void as I don't have a degree or diploma to back it up. Seemed like all the jobs on Indeed want a P.Eng or M.Tech. I was really having a hard time with this as I am as qualified as any engineer to be an EPCM pm for manufacturing. I spent a lot of the last year really depressed.

Anyhoo I am starting a new job in Jan as a "machine build specialist" with an amazing company. At 42 I have experience, comfortable running a RAIL meeting and am a drafting/design expert. This company wants to leverage all my skills, PM, Procurement, design, implementation, automation, installation - commissioning and service. I'll be hopping around as needed and be part of the designing of custom manufacturing equipment. pretty excited.

Currently everybody that can work from home is doing so, only guys in the building are the machinists

[you&me]

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I am inspired by SKR to professionally retire and go back to school to get something useful like a high school diploma, an MBA ,or something. I dunno.

What's the difference these days?

[bjstare]

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What's the difference these days?

Cost.

[killramos]

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Cost.

Yup. High school is way more expensive.

[The_Rural_Juror]

No social studies in the MBA. My social studies teacher was savage.

[msommers]

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My social studies teacher was savage.

A small Japanese person who was quite Fit?

[mr2mike]

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Getting an education is the best investment that you can do, given the current situation.

In 2015 I went back to school to get a degree and it has given me way more opportunities than just carrying a diploma.
I did lose 2 years of income, lived frugally but worth it in the long run.

What if you already have a B.Sc and still have to live frugal?

[killramos]

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What if you already have a B.Sc and still have to live frugal?

Sounds like you need a PMP or maybe an Msc

[msommers]

I have both. It's even more frugal.

[pheoxs]

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I have both. It's even more frugal.

If you get a linguistics or art history degree I hear it opens up lots of career opportunities in the field of customer relations and brewed beverage preparations.

[mr2mike]

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Sounds like you need a PMP or maybe an Msc

Maybe some plexiglass and a 4" hole saw and an onlyfans account?