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canadaishome:
If someone doesn't want a 9-5 office job, what can they do? Are there blue collar jobs that are lucrative?

Construction profession is best for you, depending on the lifestyle you want, but make sure you join one of the trades unions like locals 183 (residential constructions), 506 (labourers construction), 27 (carpenters union), 79 (heavy equipment/crane operators), 793 (plumbers union), 353 (electricians union) and so on.
The good thing with construction is that once you are union member, you don’t need all these resumes and will never be scared of loosing your job if you decide to take a long vacation. As a unionized construction worker, you get paid well and get most benefits for yourself and family that most other profession don’t get. Benefits like medical, dental, physio, travel insurance, partial scholarships for your kids, optical and others I can’t think of now, but them plenty. You even get benefits for marijuana if you’re into weed too, provided you have a doctor’s prescription. You can decide to work 6-8 months in a year and use the remaining 4 months to do other things/business if you like. It gives you flexibility like mad. Some people work 8 months during the warmer months and go on EI during the winter months.
And once you have your red seal or journeyman permit in construction, you can even work in the US.

miolad20:
Tastefully furnished apartments are available for SHORT TERM ONLY for people landing in Ontario.

3-bed/ 3-bath semi-detached apartment - suitable for a big family ($1,200 / week)
1-bed/ 1-bath basement apartment - ideal for a student, single person, or a couple. ($600 / week)

New building, located near grocery stores, transit, and in a choice area in Oshawa, ON.

Serious enquiries only, please. Send a DM for pictures and further details.

I did a tour of the apartments. You can watch it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmw4nW4dxR4

ipobcannibals:
Construction profession is best for you, depending on the lifestyle you want, but make sure you join one of the trades unions like locals 183 (residential constructions), 506 (labourers construction), 27 (carpenters union), 79 (heavy equipment/crane operators), 793 (plumbers union), 353 (electricians union) and so on.
The good thing with construction is that once you are union member, you don’t need all these resumes and will never be scared of loosing your job if you decide to take a long vacation. As a unionized construction worker, you get paid well and get most benefits for yourself and family that most other profession don’t get. Benefits like medical, dental, physio, travel insurance, partial scholarships for your kids, optical and others I can’t think of now, but them plenty. You even get benefits for marijuana if you’re into weed too, provided you have a doctor’s prescription. You can decide to work 6-8 months in a year and use the remaining 4 months to do other things/business if you like. It gives you flexibility like mad. Some people work 8 months during the warmer months and go on EI during the winter months.
And once you have your red seal or journeyman permit in construction, you can even work in the US.

Thank you for your input

Skale007:
Hello everyone,

Please I will appreciate an assistance with a matter that I have been pondering on all day.

I am still here in Nigeria tho and there is this agent who a friend introduced me to. My friend happens to know someone in the UK who he chatted with that he is interested in relocating and she shared a contact with him. She told my friend that she got to the UK through the same agent. She said he doesn’t process UK for now tho that he can help with Canadian Sponsorship Visa and all he has to do is get a form from him first and then follow the steps.

Since I have my passport ready, I decided to reach out to the agent too. I paid for my form and did a lot which includes a statement of account for funds confirmation.

Now since everything was accepted, a text was sent to me from Canada Emb on an appointment date at Abuja which will be in about 2 weeks time from now.

I was scheduled so I decided to ask the agent for things I am meant to bring along with and he then immediately, he sent a text to me. I will paste it here so maybe someone with more experience can help me out because I have not done this before and I don’t know how true it is.

For better explanation, I will paste the message I got from the agent after I received a text from Canada Emb.

I have my doubts tho but please how real is this NON APPEARANCE thing?

“Good morning, I will advise you do non apperance, For non apperance you will not be interview before your visa will be issue, I can direct you to our office in Lagos if you prefer or you can visit our office in Abuja. You will do your biometric and then submit your international passport and your Sponsorship visa will be issue without interview.
Then with DHL, we will send it to you
NON APPEARANCE fee is fifty thousand naira only.

Thanks.”

I got this and I have been thinking how real it is to travel without going to the Embassy.

Someone should please help me here with an opinion.

Thanks in anticipation.

So far you will do your Biometric at the Embassy no Wahala,how much is the total package ?and how long it took before your sponsorship came out ?

Skale007:
Hello everyone,

Please I will appreciate an assistance with a matter that I have been pondering on all day.

I am still here in Nigeria tho and there is this agent who a friend introduced me to. My friend happens to know someone in the UK who he chatted with that he is interested in relocating and she shared a contact with him. She told my friend that she got to the UK through the same agent. She said he doesn’t process UK for now tho that he can help with Canadian Sponsorship Visa and all he has to do is get a form from him first and then follow the steps.

Since I have my passport ready, I decided to reach out to the agent too. I paid for my form and did a lot which includes a statement of account for funds confirmation.

Now since everything was accepted, a text was sent to me from Canada Emb on an appointment date at Abuja which will be in about 2 weeks time from now.

I was scheduled so I decided to ask the agent for things I am meant to bring along with and he then immediately, he sent a text to me. I will paste it here so maybe someone with more experience can help me out because I have not done this before and I don’t know how true it is.

For better explanation, I will paste the message I got from the agent after I received a text from Canada Emb.

I have my doubts tho but please how real is this NON APPEARANCE thing?

“Good morning, I will advise you do non apperance, For non apperance you will not be interview before your visa will be issue, I can direct you to our office in Lagos if you prefer or you can visit our office in Abuja. You will do your biometric and then submit your international passport and your Sponsorship visa will be issue without interview.
Then with DHL, we will send it to you
NON APPEARANCE fee is fifty thousand naira only.

Thanks.”

I got this and I have been thinking how real it is to travel without going to the Embassy.

Someone should please help me here with an opinion.

Thanks in anticipation.

This smell like the normal visa scam..embassy do not text ,,even the agent told you biometic is done at the agent office ..i guess on paper..another red flag...i have seen many scam like this ...one agent even paste a fake visa,inside a guy passpport after collect milloons and then advice he pass via dubai since na special visa...all na scam !!!

ipobcannibals:
Construction profession is best for you, depending on the lifestyle you want, but make sure you join one of the trades unions like locals 183 (residential constructions), 506 (labourers construction), 27 (carpenters union), 79 (heavy equipment/crane operators), 793 (plumbers union), 353 (electricians union) and so on.
The good thing with construction is that once you are union member, you don’t need all these resumes and will never be scared of loosing your job if you decide to take a long vacation. As a unionized construction worker, you get paid well and get most benefits for yourself and family that most other profession don’t get. Benefits like medical, dental, physio, travel insurance, partial scholarships for your kids, optical and others I can’t think of now, but them plenty. You even get benefits for marijuana if you’re into weed too, provided you have a doctor’s prescription. You can decide to work 6-8 months in a year and use the remaining 4 months to do other things/business if you like. It gives you flexibility like mad. Some people work 8 months during the warmer months and go on EI during the winter months.
And once you have your red seal or journeyman permit in construction, you can even work in the US.

How do one apply for such. Wat is the qualification.. must u be a civil engineer?

Adex2442:
How do one apply for such. Wat is the qualification.. must u be a civil engineer?

You don’t have to be an engineer to apply. You only need to be a Canadian resident/citizen and apply as an apprentice in f you don’t have any experience in any of the trades. Once you get into one the unions, you will be trained and fully absolved into the union in 18 months. You can still earn while training, though you get paid the apprentice rate, which is even higher than the average minimum wage. After 18 months, you start receiving your full benefits/pay rate.

ipobcannibals:
You don’t have to be an engineer to apply. You only need to be a Canadian resident/citizen and apply as an apprentice in f you don’t have any experience in any of the trades. Once you get into one the unions, you will be trained and fully absolved into the union in 18 months. You can still earn while training, though you get paid the apprentice rate, which is even higher than the average minimum wage. After 18 months, you start receiving your full benefits/pay rate.

Woow tank you sire.

Please has anyone bought Musibau bags in recent times? Whats the price range?

Hello everyone,
I’m about to book my flight to Montreal and I can see Royal Air Maroc for about 300k plus which is quite reasonable but I want to know if this is a good flight to fly with
Help!!!!!

sammyfrance23:
Hello everyone,
I’m about to book my flight to Montreal and I can see Royal Air Maroc for about 300k plus which is quite reasonable but I want to know if this is a good flight to fly with
Help!!!!!

People have been using it and no complaints from the ones I know yet.

I really wish someone can explain why many new immigrants from Nigeria begin to start assuming huge financial costs in their early moments of working instead of saving aggressively to have significant base savings. **facepalm**

Hi, I just moved to Canada as a PR. any chance your firm is hiring Civil Engineers other than structural? I have experience in project coordination and management. please let me know.

Thank you in advance

einsteino:
A colleague at work, is trying to make the switch from Structural Designer to Structural Engineer. She asked me for some help with the technical exams PEO(Professional Engineers Ontario) assigned her. After looking at the courses, I came up with what I think are the best courses to take as an immigrant structural engineer. Since most Nigerian Civil Engineers are heavily focused on structures, this course selection might be the wiser choice for a Nigerian Civil Engineer who finds his/herself in my colleague's shoe.

Two group A courses:
Elementary Structural Analysis
Elementary Structural Design

One group B course:
Advanced Structural Design

I selected these courses because they involve less reading, since their knowledge areas overlap. They are also what I use everyday at work. That way, you are not just trying to pass an exam but brushing up on skills that you would need to land and keep a structural engineer job in Canada.

The only knowledge area in those courses that would be alien to Nigerian trained engineers is Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design. The good thing is that the focus here is earthquake loads rather than the engineering design itself, that should not be difficult to learn. Even if it were the engineering, I would rather study that than have to do courses like Hydraulics or Geotechnical Engineering lol.

I have included a google drive link to reference textbooks and a draft of the required Canadian code. One thing to note, design manuals cover the same topics as textbooks. At work, we use Design manuals more often than textbooks but when you are trying to learn something for the first time, focus on textbooks.

Do not overload yourself, you are not trying to read every text from cover to cover. Focus on the topics listed by PEO, I also included a pdf of this.

If all of this seems too much for you, exhale and remember that life doesn't begin nor end in Engineering. There are several other rewarding careers in Canada and probably with less than half the stress. Even I remind myself of this. If you insist this is for you but you need an easier way out, consider applying to other provincial engineering regulators like APEGA.

One last tip:
If applying to PEO, you should make sure that you include a course description for at least all undergraduate courses. This is especially important if you don't have a Canadian post graduate Engineering degree (Masters or PhD). Even though I have that, I still included a course description, better safe than sorry. In the absence of course descriptions for a foreign undergrad degree, PEO is more likely to ask you to sit exams because they have no way to tell what topics your education covered.


Link to reference materials for the exam:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I5aIWtjp9LCbe__4CKwMp0_Htfxt0zjP?usp=sharing

ipobcannibals:
You don’t have to be an engineer to apply. You only need to be a Canadian resident/citizen and apply as an apprentice in f you don’t have any experience in any of the trades. Once you get into one the unions, you will be trained and fully absolved into the union in 18 months. You can still earn while training, though you get paid the apprentice rate, which is even higher than the average minimum wage. After 18 months, you start receiving your full benefits/pay rate.

Solid info. Do you know what the pay is like after being fully absolved?

OP can also consider truck driving. I've heard they are well paid.

Hello everyone!
Please has anybody successfully got the driver’s extract letter from the Nigerian High Commission or is it better to process it from Nigeria. I am in Ontario and I’d appreciate it if anyone has a good contact that can process it from Nigeria. Thanks

Infodino77:
So far you will do your Biometric at the Embassy no Wahala,how much is the total package ?and how long it took before your sponsorship came out ?

It’s a SCAM, can’t you read between the lines? You are even making enquiries so you will possibly look into the possibility of doing such? I have heard of a scam where the werey agent took them to Ghana to do biometrics, it still ended up being a scam.

Prettiepearlz:
It’s a SCAM, can’t you read between the lines? You are even making enquiries so you will possibly look into the possibility of doing such? I have heard of a scam where the werey agent took them to Ghana to do biometrics, it still ended up being a scam.

at this point i believe people deserve to be scammed since they no wan get sense

Hi guys, I’m looking for a 2-bedroom basement around vaughan, North York, Newmarket or Oshawa. Please DM me if you can be of help

Please I am looking for a 2-bed in Calgary. Any info/offers are much appreciated

Hi guys,
Does anyone know If a scanned copy of the driver's extract from frsc sufficient for the license conversion in ontario .
Thanks

Omobolarin:
Hi guys,
Does anyone know If a scanned copy of the driver's extract from frsc sufficient for the license conversion in ontario .
Thanks

originally copy

Thanks for the answer.
Is it possible to take the knowledge test while waiting for the original extract to be delivered?

ednut1:
originally copy

Omobolarin:
Thanks for the answer.
Is it possible to take the knowledge test while waiting for the original extract to be delivered?

dont know, call them on phone

Dabgdap:
Hi, I just moved to Canada as a PR. any chance your firm is hiring Civil Engineers other than structural? I have experience in project coordination and management. please let me know.

Thank you in advance

Yes, the firm is in many markets and is one of North America's largest engineering firms. So it has engineers from various disciplines, not only civil. There are some openings for project coordinator and field engineers posted on the company website.

Please ,what current dowmpayment % for first time home buyer in toronto 5% or 10%??

Hello, I'm planning to apply to a school that cost around 13000 cad, I plan to work to pay for my tuition fees and as well take care of my feeding and accomodation.
My sponsor will take care of my feeding and accommodation for the first 3 months, after that, I'm on my own. Is this possible?

Also what are the chances of switching to another college once I arrive in Canada.

Thermodynamics:
Hello, I'm planning to apply to a school that cost around 13000 cad, I plan to work to pay for my tuition fees and as well take care of my feeding and accomodation.
My sponsor will take care of my feeding and accommodation for the first 3 months, after that, I'm on my own. Is this possible?

Also what are the chances of switching to another college once I arrive in Canada.

This is my opinion based on my discussions with some folks that came into as students..
1. You should have your tuition fees for the first year.
2. You can survive (living expenses) on the income you earn while working.
3. You must be ready to hustle real hard, you will do the normal 20 hours a week job and you will also do cash jobs to get extra income.
4. Once the school is on long holiday, you will work for like 80hours a week in other to save up. The money u make during the long break would be used to pay your second year fees.
5. You won't live a luxurious life for these 2 years period. No unnecessary spending, no dates, no fancy phones on credit etc.

N:B: working cash jobs/extra hours during school session is illegal, so u must not be caught.

In summary, ensure that your first year tuition is sorted before u leave Nigeria

Ontarioo:
No. Only user interface and user experience design (UI/UX)

Modified: Data science is available now

Hello boss ... Can I still be added?

Omobolarin:
Thanks for the answer.
Is it possible to take the knowledge test while waiting for the original extract to be delivered?

Yes.

House34:
Please ,what current dowmpayment % for first time home buyer in toronto 5% or 10%??

5% on first 500k. Another rate for the balance

seunpinky:
This is my opinion based on my discussions with some folks that came into as students..
1. You should have your tuition fees for the first year.
2. You can survive (living expenses) on the income you earn while working.
3. You must be ready to hustle real hard, you will do the normal 20 hours a week job and you will also do cash jobs to get extra income.
4. Once the school is on long holiday, you will work for like 80hours a week in other to save up. The money u make during the long break would be used to pay your second year fees.
5. You won't live a luxurious life for these 2 years period. No unnecessary spending, no dates, no fancy phones on credit etc.

N:B: working cash jobs/extra hours during school session is illegal, so u must not be caught.

In summary, ensure that your first year tuition is sorted before u leave Nigeria

i don’t know what some people are thinking. When person begin dey hustle to pay first year school fees with 20 hours and cash jobs how he wan take even read or study . Later they will open go fund me with one sob story

StrafordSTONES:
Hello boss ... Can I still be added for ui/UX

alright