Well I am here in the heart of it all. Fort Mcmurray, Alberta. The work is easy to find. I have friends here operating heavy haulers, bull dozers, loaders etc with no experience. I am a heat tech. and started with no experience. There are loads of jobs here that will train u on site. And be prepared to pay extreme prices for living unless u go on camp and then its all paid for.
That being said, Rent $3000 to $4400 a month nothing inlcuded usually. A trailer home in a trailer park can run u over $400,000. 1/2, 3/4 to 1 million for a house.
But dont worry about prices of food, and stuff. People think its more expensive here for that stuff. Not really. I live in Newfoundland and shop at Wal-Mart alot.
Wal-mart here has the same prices usually on everything. Same as beer and cigarettes I find are cheaper here. McDonalds,Burger King all that stuff is generally the same. So what if a meal or item is 50 cents more when u are making double to triple your regular pay.
Trucks can be bought extemely cheap here for a used few year old truck. But all u want to do is start looking at the Big boys. Yes granted I work for a smaller company, as well as many but u wanna get into the refineries. They have mines that need workers all the time driving heavy equipment and what not. Now Big outfits are:
Syncrude
CNRL
Long Lake
Albian Sands
Suncore
and many more.
Good luck with it man and there is tons and tons of work here. Yes the need construction is slowing down and now the plants are starting to come online. They need people to run these and whatnot.
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