Thanks Hiren,
The Irony is the interviewer was herself a Matierals Manager, a tem leader, a Warehouse Manager and what not. I thinks its not worth my time nor their capacity to explain to a so called top 100 BC company to change things the way I think as I am percieved a low profile, poorly illitrate Indian brown sugar who can only clean toilets and pick 70 lbs per minute.
I changed from a GM level to a labor level inthis country and even learnt forklifts and stuff to survive. The problem is my age is about 40 and they need young blood for labir jobs. But my argument is that what should I do with 20 years of expereince considered zero and competing with 20 year old school dropouts.
I cant get an entry level job cause of my age, and cant get any other due to my get qualifications deemed as zero. This is a fix I cant break. Oh I got call for my security gaurd duty just now, which is by far the only job which needs me for now....I mean since 2007 end.
I wish why I didnt join IT , at least they still have their self respect.
And if yout hought security was a safe prfession for me, here is another blow.
The girls who workes less than 3 months and has a history of no knowledge about gets a promotion over everyone and becomes a boss. She is 19 or 20 and cant write a name properly cause she immigrated from Poland. However the supervisor" needs her" for some reason and she will make reports for everyone. This is one great equal oppotunity country.Wish I was a girl with white skin and blonde hair...................
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Originally posted by delhise
Well friends just to show the extent of expectations in BC I recollect here a interview whch I gave last week for a petty warehouse labor position picked up General Labor category on Craiglist.
The interview went for 1.5 hrs.
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Being an MBA from India helped and my experience in manufacturing and stock managment helped me answer and even suggest solutions to their problems, where they didnot know how much there inventory was worth and what was in it. The company was suffering by not being able to produce the orders as noone knew where the inputs were or were they even ordered. The WH Inv was all setup but noone knew what to do.
All this for a job which they wanted to pay $12-14 anhour and that too was to be negotiated and the work was manual labor counting the inventory item by item all day and placing in bins.
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Indian MBA's are not valued much in North America...
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Originally posted by delhise
Thanks Hiren,
The Irony is the interviewer was herself a Matierals Manager, a tem leader, a Warehouse Manager and what not. I thinks its not worth my time nor their capacity to explain to a so called top 100 BC company to change things the way I think as I am percieved a low profile, poorly illitrate Indian brown sugar who can only clean toilets and pick 70 lbs per minute.
I changed from a GM level to a labor level inthis country and even learnt forklifts and stuff to survive. The problem is my age is about 40 and they need young blood for labir jobs. But my argument is that what should I do with 20 years of expereince considered zero and competing with 20 year old school dropouts.
I cant get an entry level job cause of my age, and cant get any other due to my get qualifications deemed as zero. This is a fix I cant break. Oh I got call for my security gaurd duty just now, which is by far the only job which needs me for now....I mean since 2007 end.
I wish why I didnt join IT , at least they still have their self respect.
its tough moving after 35. But that might apply to any country and not just Canada. I have never met GM's who have moved. Why did you ? And I dont want to hear 'I did it for my children's education'.
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Posted on: 28-09-10 13:01:22
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Originally posted by delhise
I changed from a GM level to a labor level inthis country and even learnt forklifts and stuff to survive. The problem is my age is about 40 and they need young blood for labir jobs. But my argument is that what should I do with 20 years of expereince considered zero and competing with 20 year old school dropouts.
Since you have leadership experience plus several years of professional from India, have you considered seeking opportunities in India? It may not be a bad idea. You may have to use an Indian address and phone number to encourage employers to contact you, but I think it's worth a shot.
http://www.timesjobs.com" rel="nofollow">LINK - Times Jobs website shows quite a number of leadership opportunities if you setup your profile right.
Another opportunity maybe to join as a faculty at a college or university and open a consulting setup within the college with funding from the college and an agreement to pay 50 to 60% of the project revenue to the college. I had a similar arrangement from a college in 2009, although I declined at that time (we love living here). Good institutions will offer upto Asst prof without a PhD and tons of pvt colleges may offer Professor position even without a PhD.
Anyway, something to mull about.
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Get serious my friend, We see a lot of new immigrants go through this problem. First of all, why choose an expensive province (like BC), expensive neighborhood, expensive cars, large mortgage, etc. etc.
Family members (most of them do not understand financial implications of running broke) will mostly ask for the best. Its you who have to decide - To live within your means.
In your case-
1. Arrange your lifestyle according to your income.
2. Follow a spending record - to find out how & where you can save money.
3. Obviously moving to a reasonable cost of living city makes sense (Province has no meaning, as you live in the city - not the province).
4. Buying a house - will make matters more complicated - in rent you can downsize & reduce your cost; however, in a house there is only foreclosure & after that life is hell.
I can go on an on, but be responsible, as a family person, one do not have the luxury of action replay's.
Do I sound casual here, maybe I have never been more serious all my life. FYI I dont live in expensive neighbourhood, I drive a $400 van, have no mortgage but bills and bills, and we are modest by any means. We cant afford to eat out often. Kids have learnt to not to ask for their things, wife doesnt buy anything expensive or extra, groceries are our main shopping, we dont celebrate birthdays outside, we dont go for holidays, i pay rent which is 72% of my earning and is on outskirts, takes 2 hours commute from work. I have to actually shell out fro my savings many times to pay bills and insurances. My expenses are for basic things but are either equal or occassionally over my earnings. So my calculation has never been better and thatswhy I can see I cant go far with this. I already downsized on everything except moving to less space and cheap neighbourhood for sake of kids but even that would do much as rent their will be max about 50% of my earning, but will be all hell for my kids and family. My first aim is to save in same earning and if required in another city/place where overheads are not as high as BC.
In Canada wherever you go jobs are less. That is the reason for discrimination. In this country if you want to survive both of you (you and your wife) must work. Paying bills with one memeber's salary is tough.
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In Canada wherever you go jobs are less. That is the reason for discrimination. In this country if you want to survive both of you (you and your wife) must work. Paying bills with one memeber's salary is tough.
Correct. That is the main area of discrimination. When it comes to jobs. Tough if you are not in the IT area.
