When I first made these threads my intention was to do them quarterly for (what I thought was going to be) a short recession. We are now 4+ years into it with constant news about Canadian companies across all sorts of industries shutting their doors or significantly reducing staff. Its extended far beyond oil & gas and affects everything from hospitality to trades to manufacturing.
I thought it might be time to fire up a new thread as many things have changed since part 8. New provincial government, new federal bills, global upset, and skyrocketing municipal property taxes for small businesses. It sucks that its all doom and gloom but through misery I think we can realize that everyone has been impacted from the InRich ballers right down to the guys still rocking their CRX's from highschool in the 90's.
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EDIT: As for me, I was rolling with what I thought was going to be a life long career but some pretty major company changes that were a result of the current market made it a pretty unhappy place to work (in my opinion at least). That paired with the fact that I felt tapped out in my current roll with little room for advancement had me looking elsewhere. We had a kid which was enough of a life shake up that I decided to take the plunge to a new career in the same industry. I am mostly enjoying it despite not knowing what the hell I am doing, but each day is once again a challenge and I am learning so much more than I have in the last 10 years. My wife, however, works for a massive company that put a promotion freeze on about a year into her employment and she is now 6 years into it completely underpaid and does't have the appropriate title for her responsibilities and the work they ask her to do. She's too timid to leave, but they also are fairly flexible so we made due for now.