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I am moving next week from my home in Newfoundland to a little town of 600 near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (my wife, a teacher, will make about 4 times what I do here, so I'm going too, if for nothing else than the great fishing and hunting).
At first I was fairly scared to death that I would have nothing to do up there in a town of only 600 people (about 500 are natives). But in talking with several people it seems my 11 years in security are very valuable.
It seems that I may be tasked to look after the town lockup on certain days and nights of the week, and I've been told that the diamond mines further north have a high turnover. As best I can figure, security in the mines is good for $30/hr (3x my current salary) and you work 12 hours a day for 14 days, with two weeks on, two weeks off.
The problem is that the companies' web sites, at least from a employment oppurtunity point of view, are poorly designed. I can't tell what's what. One site even provides a link to submit a resume, but offers absolutely no information on the job.
Can anyone offer any advice here? Perhaps somebody with experience in a high-value mine can help. Maybe someone knows a better site, one with decent descriptions of work. Anything would help.
wjohnc
At first I was fairly scared to death that I would have nothing to do up there in a town of only 600 people (about 500 are natives). But in talking with several people it seems my 11 years in security are very valuable.
It seems that I may be tasked to look after the town lockup on certain days and nights of the week, and I've been told that the diamond mines further north have a high turnover. As best I can figure, security in the mines is good for $30/hr (3x my current salary) and you work 12 hours a day for 14 days, with two weeks on, two weeks off.
The problem is that the companies' web sites, at least from a employment oppurtunity point of view, are poorly designed. I can't tell what's what. One site even provides a link to submit a resume, but offers absolutely no information on the job.
Can anyone offer any advice here? Perhaps somebody with experience in a high-value mine can help. Maybe someone knows a better site, one with decent descriptions of work. Anything would help.
wjohnc
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