Bellysgonnagetya: Im mulling over moving to canada for a year maybe 2 if im lucky for work,
What is the work situation like in canada at the moment?
Ireland is crippled with unemployment now so theres really no point in moving to canada if it has the same problems
Give it about a year. If you have a trade you will be in a much better position. I'll let you in on a little secret, Canada is very short of skilled workers and in some cases just plain workers. Just to give you an idea of how chronic the shortage of workers is here, when the Alberta oilfields are booming, they fly workers in from Newfoundland to work the oilfields simply because there is not enough people to fill the need of jobs in Western Canada.
During boom times, which will come back, Canada actively promotes immigration to this country abroad to fill it's job needs. My suggestion would be to go to the Canadian Embassy in Ireland and start talking with them now, see what they say. Tell them what you want to do and work on building the road to here. Granted at the moment, we are hurting like the rest of the world, but when recovery comes as it surely will, with Canada being a resource based country, we will be one of the first to start recovering. Already that is starting to happen...slowly, but it is happening.
Funny thing though is that most people I meet that came here to work for a couple of years never seem to want to leave, no matter what we put them through.I worked with a guy from Britain in 1984 that came to work for a couple of years, he is still here. We can't seem to send him back and we tried. But he just kicked, screamed and carried on like some kind of lunatic when we bound and gagged him and took him to the airport. We had no choice but to let him go. So don't say I didn't warn you.
Good luck.
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