Kelly McParland: Irish compete for Canadian jobs; others prefer UI

[soleiltropiques]

'Kelly McParland: Irish compete for Canadian jobs; others prefer UI'

Let’s take two stories, compare them, and figure out what it says about Canadian attitudes.

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[romp]

I have literally been hearing that since the 1980s.

[soleiltropiques]

"I also have to mention how typical it is of our government to open their arms to white immigrants from Europe yet close the doors to refugees, particularly the Roma."

Ain't that the truth.

And fuck big oil. I'd like to leave more than a stinking pile of shit to my great-grandchildren, thank you.

[romp]

This.

I think my younger child should just be a hippie artist. He can divide his time between a yurt on communal land and home with his parents. Seriously, if he doesn't have a passion like being a marine biologist or a midwife, I think he should train to work in a kitchen because that's one job he can find around here.

[poetic_pixie_13]

I'm going to try for teacher's college out of the country and then stay and teach wherever I end up. I honestly don't want to start working and possibly setting down roots somewhere else because I know that I'll eventually want to come back.

Every long conversation my friends and I have ends up with us talking about how we have no real career options. Like, if we're lucky we can find full time work and hopefully pay the bills. But it won't be in our fields and it won't be the promised nice, comfortable middle-class existence reaped from a university education. We're all talk about how we should've gone to college. I'd be out already, have practical experience not be loaded with nearly as much debt.

[givemethepeasx]

Anyone i know thats emigrated to canada has got a job upon arrival and it's not on oil rigs, it's in construction. The jobs market is definately better than in ireland.