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Originally Posted by guzzy
Mcmurray will take anyone they can.
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No, they won't. If you want to work up north in a refinery/extraction plant (as a power engineer), you're not going to do it with a 5th.
To the OP, Svartsengi made some good points. I'll add a few thoughts of my own:
Even if all you're looking for is building operations, I'd still recommend taking the full 2 year course at SAIT or NAIT (or see if they still have the one year course that offers a 4th class). While yes, a 5th class is a bare minimum for building operations, most places in the city (YYC, hospitals, offices buildings, breweries) want at least a 4th class.
If you have your third, there's a number of gas plants around the city that you can make good money at (not phenomenal, but definitely good), but you'll need your third.
If you're taking your 5th by correspondence, it's a kind of a double edged sword. You need steam time to get a job, but you're going to need a job to get steam time.
It sounds like I was in the same boat as you 8 years ago. I tried the 5th class route (when the steam time regulations were a bit more relaxed than they are now) and after a year of getting nowhere, I made the sacrifice to do the full time course. I don't regret it one bit. Any questions feel free to PM.