Sucks everywhere...people don't leave Vancouver so that's why few openings arise.. if you have a job you tend to stay with it.

Another "confession" from an unemployed "professional" that makes me want to hurl. Instead of spending a full year being unemployed and not earning an income, look outside your field. There is so much construction happening in this city it is mind boggling. Both commercial and residential. Go to some nice residential sites and sell them on your enthusiasm and willingness to learn some skills and you can get a job doing light clean up and pushing a broom for $15 per hour. It may not be glamorous but it will feed you. In case you're female and think it's brutally physical working conditions, that's no longer the case. The rules have changed. There are many small women doing those jobs. Unless you consider yourself too good to get your hands dirty for a pay cheque. In which case feel free to sit at home for another year complaining about not being able to find a job.

sometimes when you have nothing left to lose the light bulb goes off. try your hand at something you've always wanted to do. make stuff, sell it at the farmer's/flea markets. apprentice yourself out to learn a craft or get your ticket at something. by keeping busy and exploring opens doors you didn't even know were there. good luck! =)

Read the bad contractors posting. Use your business sense and set up a team of good contractors. It would be a refreshing change and lucrative I am sure!!! Get going.......quit whining......

Yeah, just go sell yourself while the boss gets richer off you!

find something to work at while you look for something you really want. It will make you feel much better than being unemployed does. I did it that way and you find that its better to get up and go to work than not. You may have to humble your projections at first, ( I did) but getting going is at least going somewhere. Granville Island is always hiring. Just walk in/around and talk to owners and have your resume with you. Everyone does it that way there. I did. It worked. I got hired the same day. I got out of a bad job into a better one. I have a degree. So do others I work with. My new job is still not my career choice but I am moving forward while I earn enough to look after myself. It so much better than that unemployed feeling. Yuck.

I can't believe all of this. Nobody smart feels any better working than being unemployed, because working you're a slave, and your boss is making more off of you than he's paying you, pocketing the difference, likely because he was born into money, could afford the down payment on the compressor or the shed or whatever it is you slave in while he makes profit off your back.

"It so much better than that unemployed feeling."

Working is slavery. I guess some people are anxious with the responsibility freedom imposes.

sounds like sheer bs.

Work is simply a way to learn about yourself through reflections from others. Also a way to connect with others. Learn new skills. Get out there. Get out of your head. Makes steps that take you to bigger steps. People have worked since the beginning of people! Famous people have had these "slave" jobs you speak of at some point in their lives too.

Life moves forward as we do. You speak of freedom but you don't sound free at all to me. You may be free from work but you are not free. Its as though you are deluded by your supposed sense of freedom....and by your judgement of other's circumstances and motivations.

Talk to a FreeMason; good luck