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Starting a Business in Alberta

Thinking of Starting a Business?

An engineer asked about starting his own business and asked how to go about it. ” That’s a very broad question. Each industry is different,…

“Maybe at the End of your Career”

Once I was taking a walk with a woman (one who went to university for a traditional white-collar career) and I casually showed her an…

The Achilles’ Heel to Success

Resistance to public scrutiny is often the achilles’ heel to success- from lifestyle choices to financially sound decisions. You can often tell a Asian person’s…

Theory of Self-Employment

There is a lengthy list of potential business ideas. Some people are better than others at certain ones. You want to do something you’re good at. In…

Beginning of the End of Employment

No one wants to pay me what I like- especially with the shifting labour market and the oilfield downturn, shifting it into an employer’s market…

Brief Cliff Notes on UBC student -> Oilfield Career Timeline

Left UBC when I was 19 after finishing 3/4 years of my Math and Economics degree (with Computer Science and Commerce Minors). Current standing, at…