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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
We are constantly posting labour jobs that start at $17 per hour. I have a hard time getting resumes and the interview is usually spent convincing people that they want the job.
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I live in Vancouver. I suppose things are different here.
I think a major disadvantage with labour jobs is that they truly are futureless right now. $17.00/hr, which works out ot about $35,000.00. Really isn't that much money these days.
In addition, the trend for labour jobs is to see them outsourced and dissappear. In prior generations you could have made a career out of being a general labourer in a lumbar yard or a car factory. Forget it now.
As a young person, I wouldn't take a basic labour job unless I absolutely had to or I was likely to learn some skills to make me more marketable in the future (IE towards a specific trade or industry). Committing yourself to a job like that is basically commiting yourself to a developing world standard of living, because that is where all those jobs are going.