Bad news from the Congo !!!

The weight I could gain in a hurry but sadly the face scruff would take way longer than we have...lol Some people already think I'm a miserable SOB so two out of three ain't bad.
 
c-fbmi said:
course ?????????
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A horse is a horse not a hoarse.
Of corse the course is a course not a coarse.

I'm kind of wondering if'in per say you overly tipped the lads way yonder and
they were looking for summore of that plentitude gratitude?

Me pense yuz gitt'in up there to be puzzy whipped...........Laugh2........:wave:
 
Dogleg said:
What's stopping you?
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Money is stopping me from making money.


Long story "short"...
Can't get funded for any sort of school and the family certainly can't afford to just put me through school.
I took almost 2 years of electrical engineering with money I made from selling a quad (I had bought back when I had a very lucky job opportunity from age 14-16yrs old working for a family friend). I also managed to get a $2000 student loan from the bank, but once that ran out...I had to drop out as I couldn't even afford the gas and parking I needed daily. I'm still paying that stupid loan off too!!!!

Without a trade cert (not just having skills), I've found nothing since my lucky job position I had 10+ yrs ago that's above the $13/hr mark or nothing that will keep me employed without yearly layoffs or short work days/weeks. St. Thomas is a dead town when it comes to jobs and now with the Ford plant closed, things are worse than ever here. I've always gotta drive a decent distance to get to any job I've had (except for 1) which makes it basically impossible to even $30-$40 per pay period.
I can't sell my car and move to another city and take public transportation because I've got 2k more into my car loan than the car is worth due to my last vehicle needing TWO replacement transmissions AND TWO replacement transfer cases among many other parts.

I live in St. Thomas, which is truly the land of no job opportunities.
EI denied me second career training because they said I already had enough skills to be able to find a job easy enough. Great, thanks for all the help.


Daily when I look for jobs on all the employment sites, there's only an average of 2-3/day that I can apply to "locally", and by about dinner that day, there's already been at least 400views (kijiji).

I've completely exhausted randomly driving around town dropping off resumes.
Fast food places won't even hire me, I know they just look at my resume, see that it's mainly construction related, and toss it out for fear I'll be outta there the second I find a better job.

I need some sort of job where the employer knows I'm not just looking for temporary work, but a career I can be proud of and constantly progress at.

Sounds like a load of crap I know it does, but I assure you there's no story telling goin' on. I just need another lucky job opportunity like I had when I was 15-16 to get me started! I know once I have a few $$ to my name, it'll be no problem making lots more $$ from that point (flipping houses, custom kitchens, cars etc). I can't even re-do kitchens for people at the moment as I've had to sell all my tools so I wouldn't get behind on my car payments!


I moved out to Alberta with a buddy for a job right after I was forced to leave Fanshawe College, but was lied to about basically everything.....wages (promised $22, made $17), housing (promised no rent, took $400 directly from cheque), work location (promised fort mac camp work on the petro canada refinery, worked at the edmonton location refinery), amount of hours (promised full work weeks with lots of overtime, actually worked mon-thurs then a half day on friday IF WE WANTED TO. Needless to say I had to move back home after that wonderful experience soaked up my last bit of cash.

Wow, that wasn't very short at all! Sorry about the thread hijack OP.
 
Ebbnflo said:
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Gottcha, incorrect use of the homonym, coarse...course, my apologies not paying close enough attention.

'Looky, we won't even go there as she has been very indulgent of my hunts and their costs, and I could go if I really wanted to. In retrospect, just a do over without any new animals is kinda superfluous and not really worth invoking her ire, and she is right about devoting that time and money to the house additions. Sometimes she is just my common sense voice, which I am trying to ignore, but knew was right all the time.

brody125......what kinda job you looking for, what are your wage expectations and are you willing to relocate?
 
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c-fbmi said:
How fast can you become 6' 250lbs and grow a scruffy face......oh yeah and become a miserable SOB..........we might make it fly !!!! LOL
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So if I lose 5", 10lbs and grow out my beard I'm set? How about if I just slouch? I'm already miserable, depending on who you ask.

Only on my first wife though.
 
I know, we need to have a Doug look-a-like contest with the winner using my passport and getting a free Congo hunt for 3 duikers and a bongo..........oh ya, I still get the capes !!
 
c-fbmi said:
I know, we need to have a Doug look-a-like contest with the winner using my passport and getting a free Congo hunt for 3 duikers and a bongo..........oh ya, I still get the capes !!
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I could gain 50 pounds, have scruffy down to an art form and would have to cheer up to be only a miserable SOB. Booked solid for this fall though.
 
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