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01-17-2001, 12:44 AM
<font color=pink>Your name gets called, you get your diploma, you’re ready to start reaming your rewards of your 4 years earning a degree. You throw together your resume in confidence, distribute it throughout the country and wait endlessly for a response. NOTHING. Finally, after sending out countess resumes and seriously considering a Hasty Market position, the phone rings. The job sounds great and related to your field, the interview goes well, and alas an offer. Your blood is fucking pumpin’, you’re ready, this is what you’ve been working for, this is the first step to the rest of your life. One of the biggest most important moments, the real job. What comes next, is something you never expected or anticipated, “the” letter states a starting salary of $23,000 a year with limited benefits. WHAT THE FUCK? This means having to live like a student for the rest of your bloody life. You had to scrounge through 4 years of university and now you have to scrounge some more.
This is not the exception in Canada, it is the rule. More and more new university graduates are finding themselves in the above position. How can a company actually believe a person can live on that kind of a salary? In many cases your student loan is larger than your salary. An option that is becoming far more appealing is to take your educated knowledge south of the boarder. I had the opportunity to meet with such an individual who wants to be known as “MAX POWER”. Here’s a quick synopsis of Max’s situation.
Upon graduating from the University of Guelph with a joint degree, computers and environmental sciences, Max, landed a job in Ontario earning the whooping sum of $23,000 a year. After having to live in garage for a year to support themselves (in the winter as well) , NO WORD OF A LIE, he said “fuck it, I deserve better, I’m good enough, strong enough, and gosh darnit people like me”. Max began distributing his resume throughout the U.S. Within a week a phonecall, and within two, a new job, relocation package, full travel expenses and benefits. Now the best part, a 250% salary increase. That’s going from $23,000 to $83,000 in Canadian funds. Ladies and gentleman, I would like to introduce the Brain Drain.
I had the opportunity to sit with Max while casually choreographing my sister’s dominatrix routine. I asked him which country he enjoyed more, he said, “I very much like Canada better, Canada in terms of everything the whole crime rate, where I grew up, its what I know. I didn’t want to leave by far, the reason for moving was not to move to a better country, the country itself did not appeal to me. It was the financial state of the US, economic state, is what motivated me to move and prompted my decision”.
He later when on to say, lives are so economically driven that he didn’t feel he had a choice, he felt he was forced to leave, offers were too tempting and Canada didn’t care, nor could he find anything appealing here.
The irony in all of this I find is how U.S. comedy pokes a lot of fun at Canada, making Canada look unintelligent when in actuality, by our university grads they are causing our country to fit their stereotype.
The fault does not lie with the U.S. for making more attractive offers, the fault lies in Canada for not taking more action and trying harder to retain its own graduates.
The got the below article out of the Toronto star's business section today.
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It's not our darkness we are afraid of, it's our light.
This is not the exception in Canada, it is the rule. More and more new university graduates are finding themselves in the above position. How can a company actually believe a person can live on that kind of a salary? In many cases your student loan is larger than your salary. An option that is becoming far more appealing is to take your educated knowledge south of the boarder. I had the opportunity to meet with such an individual who wants to be known as “MAX POWER”. Here’s a quick synopsis of Max’s situation.
Upon graduating from the University of Guelph with a joint degree, computers and environmental sciences, Max, landed a job in Ontario earning the whooping sum of $23,000 a year. After having to live in garage for a year to support themselves (in the winter as well) , NO WORD OF A LIE, he said “fuck it, I deserve better, I’m good enough, strong enough, and gosh darnit people like me”. Max began distributing his resume throughout the U.S. Within a week a phonecall, and within two, a new job, relocation package, full travel expenses and benefits. Now the best part, a 250% salary increase. That’s going from $23,000 to $83,000 in Canadian funds. Ladies and gentleman, I would like to introduce the Brain Drain.
I had the opportunity to sit with Max while casually choreographing my sister’s dominatrix routine. I asked him which country he enjoyed more, he said, “I very much like Canada better, Canada in terms of everything the whole crime rate, where I grew up, its what I know. I didn’t want to leave by far, the reason for moving was not to move to a better country, the country itself did not appeal to me. It was the financial state of the US, economic state, is what motivated me to move and prompted my decision”.
He later when on to say, lives are so economically driven that he didn’t feel he had a choice, he felt he was forced to leave, offers were too tempting and Canada didn’t care, nor could he find anything appealing here.
The irony in all of this I find is how U.S. comedy pokes a lot of fun at Canada, making Canada look unintelligent when in actuality, by our university grads they are causing our country to fit their stereotype.
The fault does not lie with the U.S. for making more attractive offers, the fault lies in Canada for not taking more action and trying harder to retain its own graduates.
The got the below article out of the Toronto star's business section today.
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It's not our darkness we are afraid of, it's our light.