| rlbell |
23-11-2006 03:00 AM |
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Burger Meister @ Nov 21 2006, 09:35 PM) [snapback]268085[/snapback]</div>
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Well I'm a student and I make $7.25/h canadian funds. I work at a grocery store as a service clerk, yay!
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I live in Calgary, Alberta. A city where anyone with no obvious substance abuse problem and a willingness to work can get a job that pays Can$11.50 per hour, at Tim Horton's. Of course, that is not actually enough to move out of you parents' basement and rent anything bigger than a tiny apartment.
Fortunately, I have a manufacturing job which pays a might better than that-- Can$12.50 per hour, with a bonus of an additional $2.00 per hour if I can reliably work all of my regularily scheduled hours, with a productivity bonus that can be equivalent to another $4.00 per hour. Forget living comfortably, that level of pay is nearly beyond my dreams of avarice and allows me the occassional extravagance. My current ambition is to finally purchase the Lego Star Destroyer (which I have wanted to purchase since they started advertising it).
For better, or for worse, I have discovered how to lose weight without dieting or exercise-- I work for a living. As the conveyor moves, I place pieces of steel down upon it. Every three minutes, I lay down about 230kg of the stuff, for a total of forty tonnes a shift. Not that I always reach this amount, as there are stoppages for replacing worn tooling, changing tools for different products, or running the conveyor at a slower speed so that the material gets hot enough to . |
