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Originally Posted by Wormius
Nobody owes anybody a job, but it is far more useful to use whatever time you have on EI to actually dedicate to a full time search of a job in your chosen field.
I was on EI for a short time, and I feel that it was a far better use of my time to look for a job that would eventually advance my career and pay well then toil in some job where I wouldn't be as available for interviews or spend time trying to network with people in my field.
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Except nobody is saying that you shouldn't do that. The apparent abuse of the EI system has been mentioned a couple times in this thread, and things like that need to be stopped.
Either way, the comments made by Flaherty are being taken seriously out of context. Everyone here knows damn well that when you can't find a job in YOUR field, there is nothing wrong with a different job in a different field until something better comes up. Flaherty is encouraging that, because apparently there are people who are refusing to do certain jobs because they don't want to get their hands dirty. We have a labour shortage in certain provinces. Most of those jobs are high labour, low-skill jobs. The fact that they're not being filled, despite the fact that we're sitting at 7.3% unemployment shows that people are being extremely picky about where they work.
Like I said before, a job search on Monster.ca brings up thousands of jobs in a variety of different fields. Hard to have sympathy for someone who doesn't even attempt to find a different job when they can't find anything in 'their' field.