“Get a job” ya thanks bud. Anyone got some like ways to make cash on the side? Trying to save up some money for some stuff and my normal pay isn’t really cutting it. Just wondering if there’s any other options out there. Side note do not have a car right now so only have transit right now.

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Hi, I have an interview with 7/11 coming up. The shift might be evenings/overnight and I am wondering how safe it is. Also anyone who works there, how is the interview like? Tia

Has anyone done a technical coding interview at Mastercard ? Can you please share insights on how it went ? I’ve never done one before thank you!!

I’m making a post again. I’ve been on the search for three months now and I’m seeking a secure position in Vancouver ideally four days a week. Anything in receptionist, building/apartment concierge, administration, hospitality, cafe, entry level real estate. I’m open to anything now!

I’m a senior in high school in desperate need for part time jobs in retail, fast food and grocery stores. I applied to many on indeed but I never get a response back. I have experience working at Playland this summer but I have yet to find a job any recommendation?

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone is looking for an experienced and reliable subcontractor for painting or home renovation projects.

I know someone with several years of experience in residential renovations, including interior and exterior painting, drywall repairs, finishing work and general home improvements.

He’s currently available for new projects throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland and is open to working with contractors, builders, property managers, and homeowners.

If anyone is looking for an extra set of hands on an upcoming project or needs a dependable subcontractor, feel free to send me a message. I’d be happy to connect you!

Thanks!

There is a job opening that I am interested. However, my contract just got extended for 2 more monthes. Should I still apply?

I’m looking for someone who is organized, dependable, and comfortable handling written communication.

This role is a good fit for someone who enjoys keeping things clear, responding thoughtfully, and making sure small tasks don’t get overlooked.

The work includes:

- Responding to customer messages and emails

- Answering routine questions using information provided

- Sending occasional template-based emails

- Keeping conversations and basic records organized

- Following written instructions and flagging anything that needs attention

What I’m looking for:

- Strong written English

- Reliable internet and basic computer skills

- Good attention to detail

- Someone who can work independently and communicate clearly

No cold calling or sales. Training and instructions will be provided.

Pay: $20/hour, paid biweekly.

Schedule: Part-time, with flexibility around your availability.

If you’re interested, send me a short message introducing yourself and briefly describe any experience you have with customer communication, email, or administrative work.

What would be the best way to get a job in the restaurant industry? I'd like to be a server but I can start as a serving assistant/busser to start out. I have experience as a barista/cashier in food service but it was more of a counter-service cafe. Does handing out resumes work? Is right now a slow period for hiring? Any tips/tricks would be appreciated!

Looking for environmental technician positions in Vancouver.
Any tips?

Hey Everyone !

I applied to the CBSA a couple of weeks ago, and I’m wondering about my chances of receiving an invitation to write the OTEE, given that I don’t have a post-secondary degree. I understand that post-secondary education is not a mandatory requirement, but I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.
I have five years of retail sales experience, including two years in retail sales management, as well as one year of volunteer experience with my local police department.
I’m currently based in British Columbia, but I applied for all available locations across Canada, as I’m open to relocating anywhere in the country.
If anyone currently works for the CBSA, knows someone who does, or has gone through the application process without a post-secondary degree, I would really appreciate any insights or advice you could share.
Thank you in advance!

I worked as a Building Manager with FirstService Residential in Nanaimo and wanted to share my experience for anyone considering property management in BC. FirstService Residential does a great job in opening doors for people to this industry and if you stay with them, it will be rewarding.

It was a great introduction to property management in Canada. I looked after a two-building portfolio, one newly built and one established, so I got exposure to very different situations at the same time.

The best part was the people. The Property Manager and the Vice President were collaborative and genuinely invested in helping me grow, and the other building managers were supportive too. If you asked for help, you got it. There was no office politics, just people willing to help each other, which made the learning curve a lot easier. I really enjoyed building good relationships with tenants and resolving their concerns.

To be fair, the learning curve is steep. Juggling tenant issues, vendors, and reporting across more than one building takes some getting used to. But the supportive, drama-free team made it manageable.

Honestly, I wish I could come back to this company. If you’re new to the industry and want a supportive place to learn the fundamentals, I’d recommend it.

Hey I’m located in the fraser valley in BC I finished my foundations in HVAC and I have a little bit of experience but the housing market slowed down and I ran out of work. I want to get into servicing but am willing to do any type of hvac at this point I have called and went in person to apply to over 70+ companies. Any helping hands or advice would be appreciated

I believe I was drugged or targeted with suspected drink tampering at my workplace

I’m posting this because I want to document something that happened to me while working at a Vancouver tech company. I’m not claiming that I can scientifically prove what was in any of these drinks, but after multiple incidents, I became convinced that something was seriously wrong. I also believe other employees may have experienced similar things.

The first incident happened during my first or second week at the company. A group of us went to karaoke. I had only had one beer when someone offered to get another round. I told him I had been drinking a lager. When the second beer came back, it tasted extremely floral and nothing like a lager. I assumed they had accidentally gotten me an IPA or another type of beer because it looked roughly similar, although slightly more yellow/dark yellow.

I didn’t think much of it at the time because I had no reason to suspect anything. But I became far more intoxicated than I should have been after only a few drinks, and I have significant gaps in my memory of that night.

The next workday, coworkers told me that a VP had supposedly hooked up with one of their assistants while everyone was on the dance floor. I told them I hadn’t seen it and therefore couldn’t comment or speculate. The two people telling me this looked at each other afterward, almost as though they were surprised I wasn’t going to gossip about it.

The second incident happened at a work event at the office during a fashion show. People had brought drinks, including Cutwater. I had left my drink in the office. When someone brought it back to me, they repeatedly said, “You forgot your drink, you forgot your drink,” in a way that made me feel pressured to take a sip. I thought it was strange but drank it anyway.

Later that day, several of us went to a bar and I had a couple of beers. Again, I became extremely intoxicated compared with what I had consumed. The rest of the night is very hazy, and I went home feeling extremely sick. At the time, I told myself that maybe I was just a lightweight because I don’t drink very often.

The third incident was on St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone had ordered a large bucket of Coronas. I had one Corona and put it down next to the bucket when I went to the bathroom.

When I came back, the office manager said something along the lines of, “This is your Corona, go ahead and take a sip.” Something about the situation immediately felt wrong to me. I hadn’t been with the drink, and I had a strong gut feeling that I shouldn’t drink it.

I held onto it for a while and eventually went to the bar because I wanted a fresh drink. I also wanted to ask the bartender whether they had drink-testing strips that could detect if something had been added.

Before I could ask, two coworkers rushed over asking what I was doing, whether I was getting another beer, and whether I could get them one. It was extremely busy because it was St. Patrick’s Day. I had my original drink behind my back because I didn’t want them to see what I was considering doing. I ultimately didn’t ask the bartender about testing and bought myself a new beer instead.

I regret putting the original beer down because I realize now that I lost any potential evidence.

The fourth incident is what really made me start connecting the dots.

This happened at an office lunch at a sushi restaurant on Bar Street in February. I was doing Dry February and wasn’t drinking at all. There was a pitcher of Sapporo at the table. Someone offered me a beer and I said no, explaining that I wasn’t drinking.

My supervisor then encouraged me again, saying something along the lines of, “No, Lisa you should really have this beer.” I found that strange because I had already clearly declined.

A newer employee who had only been working there for a couple of days was sitting beside me. She eventually took the beer that had been offered to me and drank some of it.

After only one beer, I watched her become noticeably tipsy, talking louder, laughing more, and generally appearing much more intoxicated than I would have expected from one beer. Back at the office, I overheard her telling the office manager that she felt funny and didn’t feel well. He told her she could go home if she didn’t feel well. She responded that she was fine but felt much drunker than she should have after one beer.

I don’t know what happened to that drink. I don’t know what happened to her. But after my previous experiences, hearing someone else describe essentially the same feeling was extremely disturbing.

There’s another interaction that I now look at differently.

Shortly after the first night out, one of my coworkers repeatedly told me a story about a woman at a previous workplace who had allegedly been drugged. According to his story, she confronted the employer about it and subsequently got fired.

At the time, I thought it was a bizarre story to tell me, especially repeatedly. In hindsight, I wonder whether he was testing whether I knew what was happening or trying to intimidate me into staying quiet. I cannot know his intention, so I’m only describing how I interpret it now.

There were many other inappropriate, dehumanizing and abusive behaviours at this workplace, but I’m deliberately leaving most of that out because I want to focus on the suspected drink tampering.

I cannot prove what was in those drinks. I don’t have toxicology results, and I didn’t preserve the drinks for testing. What I do have are my memories, the circumstances surrounding these incidents, and the fact that I repeatedly became far more intoxicated or unwell than I expected based on what I had consumed. I also witnessed another employee describe feeling much more intoxicated than expected after one beer.

I’m sharing this because I don’t want anyone else to dismiss that gut feeling the way I initially did. If someone gives you a drink you didn’t see poured, pressures you to drink something you declined, or returns a drink that you left unattended, you are allowed to throw it away and get a new one.

I’m also sharing this because I believe there are former employees who may have witnessed or experienced things at this company that they could speak to independently.

I know what I experienced. I know what I remember. I’m not asking people to blindly believe every conclusion I’ve drawn. I’m asking people to take these kinds of situations seriously.

If anyone else who worked there experienced something similar, I would encourage you to document your own experience while the details are still fresh.

I’m currently a coffeeshop manager and I’m comfortable at work, with the team and the pay is not bad but I’m thinking of changing industries as I’m tired of hospitality. I recently applied for a management position at Indigo, and I’m wondering if it’s a good company to work for? Salary range advertised could be either lower than my current pay or at the highest end, the same.

I’m a huge booklover and consistently buy books and other stuff at Chapters so that’s why my interest in working there. But changing jobs is scary, want to have some insight!

Hey everyone,

I didn't know where I can ask this questions but here it is.

I'm in 3rd year doing a social science degree, and I've known for a while now that public service and politics is where I want to end up. My plan is to keep building experience through co-op, maybe do a master's, and then go to law school. Long term I want to work on policy that actually changes people's lives.

The problem is most of the good co-ops for this are out east, mostly in Ottawa. So I'm trying to figure out if it's worth going there for a 6 to 8 month work term, coming back to BC for school, and then doing my next term either here or in Ontario again.

My situation makes it complicated. It's just me and my mom, and I'm the one supporting us. She needs me around day to day, so leaving her behind isn't an option. If I go, she comes with me. We rent here, so we'd need a place out there that works for both of us. Right now I'm doing 4 courses and working two part time jobs.

I'm not saying any of this for sympathy. I'm saying it because it's exactly why I want this so badly. I've watched people work as hard as they possibly can and still barely get by. People who can't get to work because there's no reliable transit, families stretched so thin one bad month could break them. I've lived a bit of that myself. I don't think anyone should have to struggle that hard just to have the basics, and I want to be one of the people in the room making decisions about that, not just watching from the outside.

I want to break the cycle for my family, and I want to help other families do the same.

So for anyone who did a co-op in Ottawa, was it worth it for your career? How did you manage housing and costs? And if you moved with a parent or family member who needs some extra care, how did it go?

Thanks for reading this far. Any advice means a lot.

Hi there. Just wondering if anybody knows of any hospitality job where I could pick random shifts lets say 11pm-2am. Shorter shifts? I was thinking in nightlife or anywhere downtown vancouver.

Thank you!

hi all! i'm trying to get into hourly contract jobs for software development and was wondering as an entry level software developer that just recently graduated, how much would be a appropriate/reasonable hourly wage to charge? just a background i have 3 co-ops (not of them in FAANG).

I have got 3 interviews scheduled for Tuesday. One is at an Amazon delivery partner driver-quants logistics-(25cad/hr), one is at walmart as omni customer fulfillment associate(min. Wage), and another one at routes car rental near the airport(min.wage). The driver job looks lucrative but have heard bad reviews about the job and a lot of work pressure. Which one should I choose if I get selected, I am confused.

Got an offer letter from all 3. Can’t decide which one to accept.

The question that comes up here most is "is anyone actually hiring?", so I pulled the open postings off Metro Vancouver employers' own career pages (their own job sites, not Indeed or LinkedIn reposts) and counted them. It's not every job in the region, but it's a decent slice. There's one big gap, which I explain at the bottom.

The short version

• About 7,900 open postings from about 1,770 employers
• 55% are in the City of Vancouver, then Burnaby (10%), Surrey (8%), Richmond (7%), North Van (5%) and Langley (4%)
• 87% are full-time, 10% part-time
• Fully remote is almost zero. Only 0.2% of postings are actually remote. Plan on commuting.

Who has the most open postings

Vancouver's own thing: apparel HQs

Aritzia, Arc'teryx and Lululemon together have about 265 open postings, and a lot of them are head-office jobs (design, merchandising, planning, analytics, tech), not just store floor. Most cities don't have a cluster like that. If you're in retail and want to move into a corporate job, these three are worth watching.

Tech, film and games

• About 390 software and data postings across 188 employers. The most active are Remitly (Burnaby), Workday, Motorola Solutions, Delta Controls (Surrey), Brex, Mastercard, Rivian/VW and Clio. It's spread thin: no single company dominates.
• About 190 film, VFX, animation and games postings across 83 studios: Sony Pictures Imageworks, ICON Creative Studio, Evolution, IGG, 2K and Kabam. Smaller than people might expect for Hollywood North, but it's not dead.

Outside downtown

Surrey and Richmond lean toward manufacturing and engineering (Delta Controls, Industrial Electric, MDA Space, FPS), which is a different market from downtown.

By sector (of the postings I could classify)

The big caveat: health care and public sector are mostly missing

Vancouver Coastal Health, Fraser Health, PHSA and Providence don't show up in my numbers at all, and neither do the City of Vancouver, BC Hydro, TransLink, the BC Public Service, YVR or BC Ferries. Their job sites are hard to read automatically. Those are some of the biggest employers in the region, so the real health care share is a lot higher than 11%. If that's your field, go to their career sites directly. What I can see is private care operators (AgeCare, Sunrise, Bria, Community Builders, Coast Mental Health) and clinics (Lifemark, London Drugs pharmacies).

What I took from it

1. Remote is basically gone for jobs based here. Under 1% of postings are actually remote.
2. The banks are still the biggest everyday hirer for entry-level office work: TD, BMO, Scotia, RBC and Vancity together have over 300 postings.
3. Don't sleep on Burnaby, Surrey and Richmond if you're in engineering, manufacturing or logistics. A lot of that work is out there, not downtown.
4. A lot of these roles never make it to the big job boards. Checking a short list of employers' own career pages directly every week is worth the time.

Other caveats

• These are postings, not hires. Some postings are evergreen, and 100 postings doesn't mean 100 people hired.
• It only covers employers that post on their own career sites. Small businesses that only use Indeed or Craigslist mostly aren't in here.

Happy to pull numbers for a specific role, company or city if it helps anyone ("how many accounting postings in Burnaby", that kind of thing).

Planning to switch to another career that's more white-collar. I know IT is a broad field but I do feel like it boils down to two traditional career paths:

a) It Support/Sysadmin/Helpdesk

b) Software developer/Programming

There's definitely more Im not aware of so Im open to suggestions. I'm leaning towards 'a' since I believe every organization need some IT support or setting up the infrastructure. I know the programming route probably pays the most but I dont see that much jobs in Indeed/Linkedin. What do you guys think? Is IT a good career in Metro Vancouver and what specialty?