lathyrus

OP speaks the truth. The AHS and the politics in Alberta right now is in deep trouble. Redford and her cronies messed up the budgets badly. The housing in the big Albertan cities are skyrocketing, which is extremely frustrating to everyone. Everything is too pricey at the moment. And, of course, no jobs for new grads. I can safely say that now is not the good time to become a nurse. But right now, nothing really is. I hope this can all change soon!!!

Hopefully by the time I graduate, there will be full time jobs *fingers crossed*!!! I hope to work full time to pay off my loans. I'm just praying that everything would work out for the best!!! Also, I'll probably get a minimum wage paying job to pay off some of my loans...

OP, I feel your pain. A lot of my friends are right now jobless. Even the ones who graduated from money making degrees like engineering are having a hard time getting a job. This is Alberta I'm talking about right now. The province where the media advertises as the only place with jobs. In reality, it's not for many fields.

To answer OP's question, it is a tight job market here in Alberta. Thanks to Redford and her spending enormous amount of money on herself, Alberta's politics is in a huge mess. Also, the education and health care budgets have been severely cut, leaving many new grads in nursing and teaching jobless. Even people who graduated from engineering are having a hard time finding jobs. Basically, Redford ate our money up, leaving all of us Albertans in shock. However, Baby Boomers all across Canada will retire soon. The retirement won't solve the job problems, but since there are more Baby Boomers than the Gen Y'ers combined (Comparison age pyramids), maybe there's a chance we might see vacancy and more jobs created in the future. Why I liked Trevor's post: The problem right now is that many young Canadian grads are left without jobs. About a staggering amount of new graduates are still looking for jobs after 6 months of graduation and are applying for loan breaks, which in turn breaks the tax payers. The economy is in the pits! The priority shouldn't be the immigrants anymore, but to Canadians because this is Canada in its darkest times. Immigration was good when the economy was good, but right now, think of the homeland problems. Canadian grads = No jobs/job prospects which = More debt = More tax squeeze = Not good for the economy and the future of Canada.

I don't know why people are trying to come to AB for jobs when there aren't. Even the grads here are scrambling for jobs. Many of my friends who graduated from Engineering can't get jobs. It's getting ridiculous to be honest. I'm not joking. Thanks to Redford, the education and health care budgets have been severely cut. Meanwhile, all the people in higher position are raking in more money for themselves and have million dollar retirement parties.

Thank you so much for the answer Pete! I don't know what "undergrading" means though. What does this mean? You're teaching next fall? That's amazing! Good luck with next fall term! :)

Note: I posted this somewhere else in this forum, but I had no idea about this section. If you see my other thread, it's okay if you want to leave a comment. I appreciate all the help I can get. Thank you. Hi, I'm about to finish my degree soon, and I'm thinking about going into the accelerated nursing program at the University of Calgary. I have some questions I want to ask, and I hope that this thread can help those who are in a similar situation like me? For anyone who took it, what was it like? Did the program prepare you into the nursing world? Did you get hired right away like the nursing counselors told us? Was the license exam hard? Were the STAT class and Human Anat and Phy class hard? How much is the tuition right now? Do the employers care more if you have a three or four-year degree plus the accelerated degree? Or do they not care at all? Does having an accelerated degree put you in disadvantage? That's all I have for now. Any thoughts, wisdom, and real life experience would be appreciated! Thanks!!