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Unhappy Alberta Workers over Pay Cuts and Layoffs

Paycuts and Oilfield Family

Coping with Alberta’s Oilfield Downturn: Paycuts, Long Hours, and a Depressed Outlook Life being home more lately with less rapid growth is taking a bit…

Guilt comes with Ambition. Working in Alberta's Oil Patch and becoming a Business Owner.

Society’s Frown to Ambition

We’re expected to be like the others, not above the others. When I was younger, I’d get ridicule for wanting to become something better everyday.…

Breakup Relationships Profit for Banks

The Profit in Irrational Love

A good childhood friend of mine didn’t move in together with his Miss until almost 5 years later. They wanted to ensure their relationship and…

Office workers putting hands together. Alberta Oil Patch

From a Personal to Business Relationship

When “Business is Business” turns rivals into allies. “You can complain about her being dishonest outside the workplace, and could never trust her with anything…

Job Interview and HR

Four Common Declines of Sympathy

When first impressions are all you get (1) I’ve had a woman complain to me just because I put a smiley face instead of a…

Society's Expectations of Seniority over Merit

Pursuit of Meeting others’ Expectations

How can I be a better candidate? How can I be better for you?  Such are questions so often questioned in both the career and…

Word about Dating Pickiness

It pays to be picky, but to a point. Some people want too much and that’s why they’re unhappy – they want someone who makes…

Dilemma of Pains of the Past

My years of self-development have involved co-workers causing me to lose jobs, going through women looking for other guys with no direction in their lives,…

November 2017; Month 54 in Alberta

Snow falls, life falls. In sequel to my last October 2017 post, things only get worse. Legal bills to deal with speeding tickets are around the corner.…

The Negative Correlation of Attractiveness, Money, and Women

  You must pick up lots of girls with that car. … bet lots of women look at you. You look hot in that car.…