Cad personnel are in high demand up North. Especially good ones. Have you
had any experience with Eagle Point? It's an add on to Auto Cad for high
volume modeling of Roads and does all the cut/Fill volumes as you go.

Ekati Diamond Mines is always looking for skilled Cad people. It only pays
about 100K Cdn a year and it's a camp job but the camp is high tech and has
all the toys. High Security as well. 2 weeks in and one week out. Discount
flights on a global basis. Lots of the Cad folk do work in Yellowknife on
their time out. It almost doubles their pay.

Pogey... Yeah... the "dole"... unemployment insurance. Only pays me $700
every 2 weeks but that cuts the cash flow from my savings a lot. I only need
about 40K a year to live quite comfortably. I only owe 6K and all my toys
are paid for as well as my house and land.

I can ask around when I'm up north if you want to try working up there.

CM


"Wally" wrote in message
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| Capt. Mooron wrote:
|
| A month on the next contract and by then hopefully one of our bids
| should be successful and I'll be staying for another project. I'm
| hoping to keep working until April and then drive my friend's truck
| from Yellowknife to Halifax before the Mackenzie Ice Bridge closes...
| that's usually around April15th.
|
| You'll be hoping for cold weather in April, then? :-) Good luck with the
| on-going contract - can't beat an extension if it pays well, especially if
| the work's interesting/fun.
|
|
| That should net me the 50K I need to live the rest of the year without
| having to work....
|
| That's a tidy wee haul for a few months. :-) Looking for some more work
| myself - my last bagful of cash is depleted. I normally do IT, but I've
been
| gradually moving into CAD work in the construction industry. (IT has
become
| too specialised around here for an all-rounder, and there are too many
| specialist bods chasing the jobs after IT redundancies at the big
financial
| houses.)
|
| Last construction job was drawing layouts for two million yellow dots to a
| *very* precise brief - pin-point accurate positioning on irregular,
| sorta-ovoid, sectional windows up to 30m long and 3-4m high. They were
| screen printed onto the glazing (inside laminated glass) for a seriously
| bendy building (Selfridge's new flagship department store in Birmingham).
I
| semi-automated the drawing process by making ACAD and Rhino jump through
| hoops. (That was the key skill that got me the contract - automation and
| coding is kinda outwith the average construction draftsman's skillset).
|
| Then I did loads of 3D brackets to hold the glass to the building - worked
| purely to a Rhino model of the structure - not a right angle anywhere, no
| flat surfaces to be had apart from the floors and the glazing panels. The
| main contractor worked to the same model and made the building by spraying
| concrete onto a huge reinforcing steel mesh. The brackets went where they
| were supposed to, the glass went onto the brackets, and it all fitted
| together. All effectively tele-worked - I've never seen the building in
the
| flesh. *Damned* interesting stuff. :-)
|
|
| ... and I can collect pogey for 6 months as well to
| offset my bar tab.
|
| I had to look up "pogey" and found out it's a Brit term - never heard it
| round these 'ere parts. :-)
|
|
| --
| Wally
| www.artbywally.com
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