Life in Canada ?

[Dinner]

Oil & Gas is even higher. $200,000-$300,000 is common these days. This is why I get pissed off when NIMBYs in the US block drilling and/or mining opportunities here in the US. There is a ton of money to be made in those industries and it takes an aweful lot of fastfood or retail jobs to equal just one mining sector or oil sector job.

[Dinner]

Yeah, in mining it is crazy these days.

Just curious but what is Iron Ore of Canada offering these days?

[dannubis]

I am not a geologist. I would work in the interface between mining and steelmaking clients.

But I am not even in talks yet. It is in the phase that contacts "expressed their interest".

[Dinner]

Well, best of luck.

[Sava]

I am not a geologist.

Why not? It's a simple enough field.

Geologists are like the dentists of science... like how their mom is telling everyone at bridge that their kid is a doctor.

[Dinner]

Flemish cuisine is one of the best in the world. FACT !

I've honestly never been to a Flemish restaurant before but would like to visit one. I've been to a Dutch and a Dutch-Indonesian place but never a Flemish one. How different is Flemish food from Dutch? I'd guess they're pretty close but maybe a bit of French influence from all the welfare sucking Walloons in Belgium.

[Dinner]

Why not? It's a simple enough field.

Geologists are like the dentists of science... like how their mom is telling everyone at bridge that their kid is a doctor.

Hey! It might not be exciting but the pay is great.

[Sava]

Hey! It might not be exciting but the pay is great.

bwahaha

I liked geology actually. If I ever needed to get a real job, I'd consider it.

[Dinner]

Honestly, I can't think of too many fields where you can have a four year degree and get paid that kind of money with very little experience required. Even engineers don't make as much. Heck, there are 18 year old kids with just high school diplomas working as rough necks in the oil fields making $100,000 a year. These are exactly the kind of jobs America needs if we want our economy to recover: High paying, yet the company still makes a large profit, and it creates new wealth as products are taken from the ground and brought to market. Oh, and it can't be outsourced to China.

Last month that rare earth elements mine in California announced they were hiring 20 geologists and around 80 other trades as part of an expansion of the mine. The only problem is you have to live out in the ****ing high desert; it's the same problem if you want to work in the oil business out here (it's mostly in the desert unless you get really lucky and land a job doing off shore in Santa Barbara but even if you do expect to make 20% less simply because SB is a nice place to live). There is a proposed copper mine up by Shasta which a company wants to develop but the ****ing NIMBYs are blocking it; the economy up there has been flat since the bottom fell out of the local lumber industry in the 80's so you'd think the ****ers would be happy to attract new industry).

[molly bloom]

Flemish cuisine is one of the best in the world. FACT !

I'm always happy with a cuisine that doesn't offer small portions. Nouvelle cuisine was a brilliant way for restaurauteurs to earn vast sums of money by giving patrons plates dusted with a few microns of vegetable powder and a hint of meat juice.