Wow! 4 Massive Industrial projects! Esso’s, Air Liquids, the Ammonia plant and now this! I’ll take these high paying construction and ultimately high paying Operations jobs any day over all this silly nanny “Tech” jobs down South! They can have them and their min. wage attachments
I am still trying to figure out what is it that you have against Tech jobs, and what evidence do you have that the IT jobs in Calgary are all Call Centre and minimum wage... I guess the folks at Bioware must all be making peanuts compared to the allmigthy industrial jobs...
Grow up, man... we need to start attracting jobs that are not industrial, too... Not everyone can (or want) to relocate just so they can have a career in something other than industrial operation, especially in a city the size of Edmonton. I like it here enough that I don't want to leave, but my career choices here are extremely limited thanks to people who think like you and let Calgary (and Kelowna, and Halifax, and London, and Hamilton, etc.., etc.., etc...) get all the white collar jobs.
The way things are going, Edmonton will lose both me and my wife to either Calgary or Vancouver in no time. We're both going to be jobless PhDs in our respective fields with almost ZERO chance of making a career in these fields here, despite the fact that we love the city, because guess what: there are almost NO JOBS for us other than public service or academia (and I know, we're not all that important, mind you, but we're a very good example of what I'm saying). Drive some 300km south and there's research jobs, investment banking, capital management... Go to Vancouver, there's even more. Data Science, Financial Forecasting... you name it... We don't even like the place and we're considering moving there, because I don't want to have spent 12 years of my life in my education to go tighten some screws, neither does my wife. We don't want to change careers, we would love to be able to follow our paths here, but this line of though makes it nearly impossible.
By your logic, if I wanted to have a life here, I should've gone to a college, got a 2 year diploma/certificate and went of to work in O&G, or any industrial job...