Mechanic apprenticeship programs?

[mikeinaus]

depends when it is. im only getting 3 days a week as of now but im supposed to be working 5-7 days a week when it gets busy which should be in the next week or 2... if its my day off id love to come give a hand.

[Inodoro Pereyra]

You guys don't know how lucky you are.
Even the heaviest jobs around won't pay that much here in Miami. I've done several of them. Worked in construction for a year, for $8 an hour. So far, the best paying job I had (and the heaviest by far), was for a water pump company (installing big water pumps for construction sites and the likes), and it paid $12/hr. And the job was so hard that, while I was working there, more than 2 dozen people came to start working there, and no one lasted till the 2nd day. One of them actually said he was going for lunch on the first day, and never came back...

As for "few and far between"...as of today, I've been unemployed for 11 months, 3 days. I would kill for a $7/hr job, right now.

[Ryan]

For a male aged 18-25 with no work experience, but a strong back, can make 12 easy. Upto around 20.

But this is CAD, and everything up here is more expensive than the USA, more than just the ratio of our currencies. I need to work 2.5 hours to pay for a tank of gas at $14/hr.

[Inodoro Pereyra]

That's great. To fill the 13 gallon MX-3 tank in Miami, at $8/hr, you'd need to work almost a full day. You,d need about $20/hr to fill it up in 2 1/2 hrs. And those wages simply don't exist here.
Just to give you an idea, a friend of mine is a surgery assistant, with years of working experience, and she's making $14/hr, part time.

[solo_ryder]

IDK where you are getting your gas lol. I just filled up.. 52$ for 40L of gas..

[Inodoro Pereyra]

You do the math. Yesterday, regular gas was $2.87/gal.
For a 13 gal tank, that's 37.31.
8 hrs @ $8/hr are $64. After all the deductions, you're left (if you're single, no kids), with about $56. That's almost 5 1/2 hours to a tank.

Add to that the fact that, as of today, full time jobs in here are a pipe dream.

[mikeinaus]

yeah but you get to live in miami. im stuck in cold rainy a-- canada. if you want to talk gas prices we pay $1.15 a litre which is about $4.35 a gallon. we pay almost twice as much for gas as you yanks, and full time jobs are probably just as hard to come by.

[solo_ryder]

I pay 1.30 to 1.40 a litre lulzzz

[_-Night-Shade-_]

It's $1.06/L for regular 87 here. Mannnnnn I remember when I first moved here it was 40 cents a litre!

[Inodoro Pereyra]

yeah but you get to live in miami. im stuck in cold rainy a-- canada.

Yeah, and I've been trying to get out of this stupid a$$ city for 10 years now.
Don't get confused: Miami is NOT what you see on TV. Come visit, and I promise you will be disappointed.
But yeah, Miami is hot. That's probably the only advantage it has over Canada. That, and it never snows. I hate snow.

[Ryan]

I have always worked under the table

And gas is only 95.9 here, I feel lucky.

And my last tank, I got 530km's on $38 (39.6 L) (edit, I can't do math.)

But thats 100% highway miles.

[mikeinaus]

ya i dont even get close to that. 300-350km to 30l is about the best i get...

[Inodoro Pereyra]

And gas is only 95.9 here, I feel lucky.

And my last tank, I got 530km's on $38 (36.4 L)

Ryan, that doesn't make any sense. $38 for 36.4L is 1.04/L, not 95.9.

[Ryan]

Inodoro, you're right.

I'm doing math beyond calculus at school, but I can't do a simple conversion like that.... haha...

It would be 39.4L

And that tank was extreme. If I drive 110 everywhere, I get between 350 and 400 km's.

[Inodoro Pereyra]

Hmmm... if it wasn't for the snow, I'd be moving there...

Having fun with the calculus?