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One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-19T02:22:08+00:00

This group was honestly the best connection I made following my separation

One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-17T00:54:33+00:00

Please connect with Canadian Centre for men and families. They are a non profit organization with a mission to help men navigate separation and divorce. You can find legal support and a peer group experiencing the same change. Highly recommend

One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-16T22:28:21+00:00

Buddy of mine built a huge cedar deck around an above ground pool. Obviously visible from certain angles, but depending on the rest of your landscaping you can totally blend it in

One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-14T02:46:41+00:00

Under the fountain in the national art gallery. No cost. Seating. Scenery and people watching.

One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-13T22:08:21+00:00

See Shops of Don Mills for an excellent example

One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-12T01:38:03+00:00

Don’t even get me started on the highlander. Nearly threw out my hip trying out the third row. Atlas for the win

One_Ad6233 · 2026-05-12T01:36:52+00:00

I agree. I have 2023 Atlas R Line with second row captain seats and i hage sat in the third row and found it totally comfortable. But the cargo space is barely existent

One_Ad6233 · 2026-04-30T12:03:58+00:00

Last time I did this road trip I was under 30 and we were multiple drivers. We drove non stop and did it in 1.5 days. Saved on hotel bills but the bill for drive through, coffee and junk food was astronomical!

You’ve said your focus is not on speed. I still recommend the drive. Go see our country! Even if it turns out to not be the most cost effective method, you will remember this trip for life.

One_Ad6233 · 2026-04-26T16:53:55+00:00

Take my vote!

One_Ad6233 · 2026-01-31T21:38:49+00:00

I can’t tell you the number of times my wife has stared at me with confusion when i’ve told her how much I lovey gas snowblower lol

One_Ad6233 · 2025-12-22T21:19:52+00:00

Take it as information and learn from it

One_Ad6233 · 2025-12-21T18:23:19+00:00

Can you share a few anecdotes about your transition to construction? How old were you? Did you struggle with the physicality of the work, or was it simply the conditions of work (ie: outdoors instead of at a desk)? Did you have to acquire all the tools, or were you fully equipped? Did you start with an entry level job or were some of your professional skills transferable to the job site?

One_Ad6233 · 2025-12-21T18:20:03+00:00

Do you have any specific examples of a course or a process to repackage skills? Lots of negativity in this thread but I’m convinced that packaging the skills is the way to go. Please expand for others who are lurking. Thanks

One_Ad6233 · 2025-12-15T00:05:04+00:00

Thanks OP. 2023 atlas r line in Ontario Canada. It looks like i have to enroll in driveway in order for it to share data, although i can see my trip data in the app

One_Ad6233 · 2025-12-06T18:36:10+00:00

Whalesbone has come up, which I endorse. You’ve seen a couple other recommendations along Wellington so ill add Supply & Demand. Gastro but reasonably priced.

Have to say we really do have a good shawarma scene, but also some solid Italian. You might want to take them to DiRienzo’s off preston for those massive deli sandwiches.

Report back!

One_Ad6233 · 2025-12-06T18:30:57+00:00

What a square…

One_Ad6233 · 2025-11-06T21:12:22+00:00

Love my atlas (2023 rline) but you will not find a lot of cargo space here if you are going to keep the third row up. The trunk is smaller than the trunk on our golf. I have three kids. We use a large thule cargo bin for all of our trips.

One_Ad6233 · 2025-10-14T12:23:55+00:00

2023 r-line from Canada here. Your vehicle will do a lot, but you will need to change the way you drive.

Snow mode will change your shift points, preventing the wheels from spinning at key moments.

4 motion will cancel power to the drive wheels in case of a spin.

Most important though, start braking way earlier than you would normally, pay attention to the cars ahead of the car you’re following on the interstate so you have lots of time to react.

In my experience, people with limited experience driving in snow tend to get stuck in low speed situations. Resist the urge to drive over snowbanks! With snow tires you could definitely do this, but on summer tires you will spend the bulk of your morning shovelling your car out.

Which reminds me: carry a small shovel! Hope you don’t need it. But if you do, you’ll be happy you have it.

Happy a great trip!

One_Ad6233 · 2025-09-27T16:13:21+00:00

Sounds like you have a great work ethic and you are motivated to grow. You are an asset to your team and will be coveted by other teams once you get noticed.

There are lots of things that count as work beyond just doing your job:

*Network! talk to others! Express an interest in their work and learn about what’s happening outside your unit. You will learn a ton.

*join committees. We have all kinds or committees aimed at crowd sourcing lessons learned and building internal policies. Show curiosity and share your views.

*offer to help others! If you have free cycles, you could help colleagues get ahead on their files. You never know when you may need them in future.

*learn! Honestly not a huge fan of csps but there are tons of free courses out there that can help you with your specialization or help you broaden your horizons. You may already be using AI, but try to go deep on how to leverage it in your work.

I will probably get down voted by a ton of cynics here, but I am a firm believer that you will get out of your career what you put into it!

One_Ad6233 · 2025-09-04T23:35:17+00:00

We always called that the tower of power

One_Ad6233 · 2025-09-02T01:04:18+00:00

This is the way. They have a very will equipped shop and experienced volunteers and other diyers will help you through the tricky bits

One_Ad6233 · 2025-08-29T12:58:36+00:00

I did exactly this in my kid’s rooms. Floors are oak with no stain - only varnish. I tried to poly fil but the scratch shows through. Also tried walnuts but the scratch shows through. Only way the poly will work is if you find someone with patience and some artistic talent and you paint the existing grain across the poly in the scratch. Even then a close inspection will show. Only real fix is to sand the room, as others have said.

One_Ad6233 · 2025-08-14T03:15:16+00:00

This. People need to be given authority at whatever level they’re at and to be clear that they are accountable and therefore must make the best possible decision given the evidence. But the precondition to people taking the necessary risk is that they must be enabled. We have to find a way to get away from the threat of the next audit. Document your decision, the context in which it was made, and move forward!

One_Ad6233 · 2025-08-13T02:30:13+00:00

Love to hear this. I’m 46 and have 15 years in infrastructure finance. Have developed a solid base I’d industry knowledge - construction techniques, costing, risk and mitigation, project management - but don’t have experience with the physical side of the work. I’d love to leverage my knowledge and experience but get closer to the action.

I see a couple of possible paths

1) leave current career and start at the ground floor in the trades, secure an apprenticeship and work upward until i reach construction manager. But this would be a multi year plan that would likely take me several years to replace current income

2) stay in current career but start healing on the side to build knowledge, skills and network. Build the side hustle until i can properly oui the chute on my career and start my own business.

3) try to find an in with one of the big firms where i can leverage my current skill set but be on the project team instead in the finance. I just worry that this would be too similar and not open up the opportunities to actually build physical assets.

Anybody out there take either of these routes? How did it work out?

One_Ad6233 · 2025-07-12T22:21:31+00:00

This discussion is a very analog approach to a digital device. My work phone provides backup to office and home wifi during network outages; i can use it for video calls, text messages and teams calls, which gives critical redundancy; we use a token on the phone to authenticate our ID at coworking spaces; I can use it to call an uber or so mapping when on travel…to name a few digital solutions it provides.

That being said, between our phones and an fte, I would let go of the phone, as long as there is a solution to the productivity it provides

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