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GGKoul:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on November 10, 2004, 03:47:52 am ---I just recently paid off my final debts.
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Congrads. When I was 27, I was debt free too. But I'm 31 now, got married bought a house. Now I have a mortgage payment and car payments. One thing thats different between Canada & the US. The interest I pay on my mortgage isn't a tax deductable and I'm unable to get a mortgage more then the value of my house to pay off other debts. Which sucks
RetroJames:
--- Quote from: 1hookedspacecadet on November 10, 2004, 07:43:04 am ---To any and all on the job search, an often overlooked, but fairly stable track is Higher Education. Many oppourtunities in IT as well as other administrative, facilities, maintenance positions. Nearly all full-time positions will have excellent benefits which is a huge plus for the family.
I work at a University in the IS&T dept. and when our daughter was born, my out of pocket payment was $250.00. I found that to be unbelievable considering we stayed at the hospital for 5 days.
Check them out at the link below and ChadTower, keep us updated. Good luck to you and all that are looking.
http://www.higheredjobs.com/
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I forgot to mention, often at Universities they offer a "Tuition Remission" program in which faculty and staff can take classes for free. At my school we are allowed 3 per semester. This makes the University employment a great option for those wishing to update skills and/or switch careers.
Often there are breaks for staff/faculty children as well.
ChadTower:
No kidding. Once you're married with kids, you need the house. A 3 bedroom house is CHEAPER than a 3 bedroom apt here. A 3 bdr apt is like $1700! You also have to have two cars... the wife can't get the kids to school etc while you're at work without a car.
As for landscaping... trust me, no one is doing ANY landscaping here now. The ground is frozen solid.
I was laid off... company is led by one stubborn officer and one incompetent one... lost a major client, decided they couldn't keep all the Release guys. I made like $30k more than the other one, so I got the boot. I will be able to get unemployment but as it was mentioned above, there's no way to maintain a family here with 2 kids with that as sole income. You just burn more than that in daily living and we live about as minimally as you can without being freaks.
This job looks like it may pan out... it's contract, strong chance of perm at the end of the year, and it's a damn good pay rate. I'd have to buy my own insurance again but at that rate I would be able to just suck it up and pay the $1100 COBRA rate if I had to do so.
ChadTower:
My grad level work was all 3d animation, mostly character animation... dude, you think development is a high time job? Animation is open ended. We're talking 100 hours. No joke.
BTW, great news. That job came through. Contract with open end, likely to be perm at the end of the year... i'm holding the offer paperwork right now. Wow. Talk about timing being everything.
Jabba:
Glad to see something came through so quickly.
I'm in the IT industry and things are slow, but slowly starting to pick up (in Canada anyway). Everyone's been holding off on any IT investments over the last few years and the budgets are starting to open up.
Cheers and good luck with the new Job!