If you had 17k to spend on tuition, at 39 yrs old, what would you pick?
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OP, you mentioned agriculture, have you considered combining your existing skills with some training in that field? With a business degree plus whatever qualifications you can get in agriculture, you'd likely be able to slot straight into a management position for a large beef, dairy, or cropping company. These kind of jobs tend to be a mix of hands on, driving tractors etc with a bit of office work and meetings.
Women is harmless. Whoever is feeding her brain with filth deserve to be taught a lesson. Creating an excel table just for the lawsuits to bury them.
Is there no way you can get joint custody of your children? That is pretty common here in the US. Wouldn't that reduce the amount of child support you have to pay?
My lawyer says joint custody is extremely unlikely because I work and my wife does not, therefore she is certainly the primary caregiver and if I was given a 50/50 split it doesnt necessarily work with my multiple jobs, even if I cut down to one job, they would possibly charge me child support and spousal based on 2 jobs, and I would just end up with less.
I have a meeting tomorrow with him to discuss the feasibility of getting 50/50 anyway, but my wife has made it clear she wants full custody and will try to give me only supervised visits (ridiculous, but shes going full adversarial).
I submitted an application to the carpentry college and my parents confirmed I could live with them during study.
I am in western Canada and have a red seal. I also have a bachelors degree. I am currently working at my own trades business while I deal with the dissolution of the my current business structure.
I have used my metal trade to put myself through my bachelors degree. I used it for income while I started my (currently dissolving) business. I am using it right now while I see what I want to do with the next step in my life. I am mid 40s.
In other words, the trade I got when I was in my early 20s has funded me during multiple life changes. But the times I worked at the trade full time, all I could think about was how to get out of it. The reality of working for someone else in most trades sucks. But there seems to have always been a steady supply of $50+/hr jobs. But that is changing now too.
If I were you, I would pay a visit to your local trades school and peek into the classrooms. Here in Vancouver (BCIT, Kwantlen) it seems Indians have found a way to scam into these schools using false hourly records and fake employment letters. Jobsites are full of guys on their PR track working for essentially nothing - they pay these shady companies to sponsor their PR. So these shady companies don't need to make money on the project, they can just undercut because they make money off immigration. It happened in trucking, security, restaurant service, logistics and in construction they are doing it in refuse (illegal dumping), drywall, painting, railings, roofing, siding and gutters. It's a total mess.
I am in talks with buying a business and he is able to hire guys (Canadians and Europeans) for $35/hr. Just 5 years ago it was $50. That is real downward wage pressure and it happened real fast. I was making $35/hr non union back in 2008 and went as high as $70 over the years.
The unions are holding on, but they are bankrupting cities all over the place. No one can afford infrastructure, healthcare, mass immigration and open drug policies anymore. Something has to give, and right now it's wages. Canadians seem OK with that for some reason.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
Good luck and God bless.
I have used my metal trade to put myself through my bachelors degree. I used it for income while I started my (currently dissolving) business. I am using it right now while I see what I want to do with the next step in my life. I am mid 40s.
In other words, the trade I got when I was in my early 20s has funded me during multiple life changes. But the times I worked at the trade full time, all I could think about was how to get out of it. The reality of working for someone else in most trades sucks. But there seems to have always been a steady supply of $50+/hr jobs. But that is changing now too.
If I were you, I would pay a visit to your local trades school and peek into the classrooms. Here in Vancouver (BCIT, Kwantlen) it seems Indians have found a way to scam into these schools using false hourly records and fake employment letters. Jobsites are full of guys on their PR track working for essentially nothing - they pay these shady companies to sponsor their PR. So these shady companies don't need to make money on the project, they can just undercut because they make money off immigration. It happened in trucking, security, restaurant service, logistics and in construction they are doing it in refuse (illegal dumping), drywall, painting, railings, roofing, siding and gutters. It's a total mess.
I am in talks with buying a business and he is able to hire guys (Canadians and Europeans) for $35/hr. Just 5 years ago it was $50. That is real downward wage pressure and it happened real fast. I was making $35/hr non union back in 2008 and went as high as $70 over the years.
The unions are holding on, but they are bankrupting cities all over the place. No one can afford infrastructure, healthcare, mass immigration and open drug policies anymore. Something has to give, and right now it's wages. Canadians seem OK with that for some reason.
Thank you for listening to my rant.
Good luck and God bless.
If you are near a large city and have a green thumb, your ag/farming idea could be quite profitable. Organic veggies sold directly to customers are nothing to sneeze at. If growing them isn't a good option for you, you could probably function as a middle man for local producers who don't want to deal with city folk or just don't have the time for selling smaller quantities.
I actually like that a lot you just have to have a plan to bring them to market which would be the hard part. Relying on little farmer markets and things like that won't get you far I know lots of people that had a great product and thought a farmers market, local fairs and things of that nature would get them to launch and they just wasted their time eventually abandoning their product. I also know people who got into large chain supermarkets through localized programs as pilots for national and just completely flopped as well even though their product was unique, well made and the deals totally in the supermarkets favor. There is big money in veggies and food in general, the logistics of it are the problem.
What about being a men’s barber? Plenty of them offer a small discount for paying in cash so they get a decent amount of cash customers and you can rent a chair very easily in a barber shop pretty much anywhere in the world.
What about selling your produce to high end local restaurants? Plenty of high end restaurants will pay up for high quality local produce because they love to brag about this type of stuff to their customers.
If I had 50 weeks pay and 17k in training funds right now, I would go be an apprentice electrician and use those funds to stay alive on the $15 an hour that an apprenticeship pays.
I currently do industrial maintenance and repair. Industrial maintenance technicians that are also journeyman electricians make 50 dollars an hour or more in the midwest, easily, and they do half to a quarter of the actual work of a maintenance tech.
If I had 50 weeks pay and 17k in training funds with no experience in the trades at 39 years old, I would either get into nursing or a trade that isn't going to destroy your joints. I don't know anything about carpentry but I feel like with all these overpriced houses and flippers, a cabinet maker could do just fine and those aren't particularly heavy (to me at least).
If you're just looking for "a job", trucking is pretty easy to get into now as they fired all the scabs who can't speak english. The risk is infinite boredom and getting fat but even my mom can drive a truck and she's pushing 70 years old with parkinsons.
Edit : someone above me suggested "barber", that's actually a pretty solid idea. I know of one in my town who ONLY accepts cash and he seems to do just fine. Gets a lot of reading done, too, so that's a two for one, you can study theology. Location is everything though, men probably aren't going to drive 20 miles into the boonies for a haircut.
On a more "wild" idea, I've kicked around the idea of raising and butchering squab to sell to high end restaurants. I guess you don't need a lot of space to raise them.
Sure why not but those restaurants already have sources so you have to break into that and it's a very limited market. That would probably be something you would try to do as a branch of the business, I'm not sure you could build an entire business around that.
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People keep pointing at electrician but I just picture running wires through attics. I have a bachelor degree already in business, so the 1 year training could just be self development, and then go back into accounting which is really boring and also really easy on my body.
I still cant believe im going through this. My wife just decided we're over based on divorce research and the huge price tag she'd get from me at my salary and the fact that I finally was able to buy us a house. Its betrayal and disbelief. Shes loving it. Acts like a spoiled ungrateful adolescent thats got a nuclear button. 16 years is a long time to pay child support for almost no reason. I love my children. I cant believe this is happening, I keep thinking it'll just go away if I keep praying, but im also asking for acceptance.
I think signing up for a year of carpentry would give me the ability to either one day buy a plot of land and build my own small house on it, or buy a really bad boxer upper for cheap and then fix it up myself. Still, my lawyer says she'll get 60 percent of my after tax pay for a while and a divorce would cost me 50k and cost her nothing. Ill be an old man before I could financially put it behind me, but all those years lost and my kids growing up without me.... I dont want this timeline, gentlemen. I don't want this. But I may have to do it regardless. I'm home in an empty house right now after a saturday of training, cooking myself a dinner in a quiet house because my in-laws and wife took the kids. Wtf even is this....
I'll do my prayer routine when the casserole is done... im still shellshocked though.
This is what happens when you get married in the west. If you want to get married do it in a non western country and live there with your wife.