My ride has arrived! I leave Sunday morning for Endako mines, near Burns lake, BC. I'm driving to Prince George with a guy named Ron, who I met at my drug test (for the job) on Wednesday. We'll be staying in a hotel Sunday night, and driving to the camp Monday morning. I start work Tuesday morning.
21 days straight, 10 hour days, 7 days off. I got the job through the plumbing union, I took a "pipefitting" job, which is apparently allowed as a journeyman plumber in BC, and through the union. I just can't take "Steamfitting" jobs. So, not only am I going to be working some crazy hours, but I'm going to get my full journeyman rate!
Everything happens for a reason, if I would have gotten the job in Firebag, I never would have found this job. It's so hard to see and beleive that from the other side, while you're sitting there "waiting" for something to happen. But when you can look back, and see the steps it took to lead you to where you are, it all makes sence. This job has me salivating.
I'm going to miss more of my summer, but at least I get a full 7 days of time off when I come back to town. Not only that, but they are basically the best weeks of the summer, as both long weekends fall right in the middle of my time off. I'm not going to see my girls for like two months! From July 4th until August 23rd, that makes me sad. I've never been apart from them for that long, not even close. At least they'll be having a blast with their grandparents, and aunts, and uncles in Ontario.
I'm hoping that the job lasts at least 4 "turn arounds," and not much more. I mean, don't get wrong, its going to be hard to turn down that kind of money, but I just don't know if I have the fortitude to be away from my kids for that kind of time. 4 or 5 months, will be enough to full pay off my debts, put a good chunk away as savings, and get me back on my feet. It would be nice to know there will be a job waiting for me to come back to, but that's so far down the road that I couldn't even hazard a guess at it. That's kinda why I hope the job doesn't last any longer then that, because if I can get laid off then I can come back and collect EI and look for work, debt free, and I won't have to feel like if I don't get work the next day that my kids are going to starve. If I don't get laid off, and work hasn't picked up around here... well... I'll probs have to keep going north. Again, it's so far down the road that it's not worth worrying about, especially since I just got the best news I've had in a very long time.
I'm not sure that i'll have access to internet at this camp, and I know that my time is going to be pretty limited regardless, and I'm going to be tired. I'm going to be falling off the face of the planet for a bit here, so if you're reading this, and you haven't seen or heard from me in a long time. I wish you all the best, and I'll catch you all up when I come back to earth. I love you all.
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