If newcomers can’t find the right jobs, lack “Canadian experience” and are struggling with the high cost of living, what’s to keep them from giving up?
  •  steakfries   ( @steakfries@lemmy.one ) 
    6•1 year ago

    interesting read. i live more northern ontario and idk if i’ll ever be able to buy a house and that really sucks. my wife an i are hoping to save up enough to buy a small plot of land near nowhere and build a little house. i do construction so i can do most of the labour. crazy to see this guy made more money selling his home than he did working all those years. thats not a good thing.

  •  gifferqqq   ( @gifferqqq@beehaw.org ) 
    5•1 year ago

    I feel like this article is more about the dire job market of academia rather than immigration. Most PhDs do not have great job prospects even for those born in Canada and the reality is we train far too many due to the perverse incentives of graduation education (cheap labour for professors).

    •  Inky   ( @Inky@lemmy.ca ) 
      2•1 year ago

      There are shockingly few stable jobs available in academia. People churn through years worth of short-term, underpaid contracts in the hope they can eventually land something better. But the reality is most don’t.

    •  Acester47   ( @Acester47@lemmy.ca ) 
      2•1 year ago

      I see -1 comment my end on jerboa. Weird

      Edit: after my comment it is now at 0. Also I can see some comments were deleted, perhaps a thread was deleted and those comments are counted as negative??