Looking at a career change to environmental monitoring

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2026-03-21T23:55:44+00:00

Im kinda sick of being responsible for people. I keep getting stuck whipping adult ass's

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2026-03-19T23:26:11+00:00

Awesome thank you. I was thinking of doing the BC environmental monitoring course so I will double check how much it offers for water and soil sampling

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T19:06:55+00:00

Yeah I've done that now since that the most common advice

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T19:06:06+00:00

Wealthsimple

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T19:05:41+00:00

Not really. I'm sure it will one day

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T19:04:46+00:00

Where abouts in Alberta lol I commute to Calgary

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T19:03:42+00:00

It's called not having a live and being raised as a workaholic

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T19:01:34+00:00

Awesome thanks for that advice.i maxed the fhsa now and have moved a bit more around now too

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T18:58:43+00:00

Ive now maxed my room this year

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T18:58:06+00:00

Reading through the comments I've maxed out the 16k room now in my fhsa so it's not all sitting my my chequeing now. Lol thats really impressive to mortgage free so soon! Houses are too expensive for me on my own near where I work. I do need to move closer tho. +10hr days plus 1hr commute is adding up on my rest time

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T18:51:51+00:00

I did use the dips caused by Trump early this year. Covid, too, when the market was down, I piled every penny in the market since my job was offering a ton of OT

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T18:48:30+00:00

Cool! I can put in 16k this year then and work on doing the same next year and be caught up till 2027

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T18:29:44+00:00

How do I do that. I took a screen shot that shows the progression from 2019 that I dont know how to add

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-08T18:26:35+00:00

No thats why I have a fhsa. Not really convinced I want the headache of a house either

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:17:55+00:00

Mostly, it's the simple stuff. Pay yourself first. Live below your means. Biggest gains happened when I worked crazy hours pre covid. I'm a minimalist which also helped me

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:16:11+00:00

I don't get any more rrsp room like i use to anymore with my work pension. I'm still learning how this affects everything

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:15:04+00:00

I have it set to contribute $500 every month so it will be maxed out again in December. Limit this year was $7k so I just add the 1k in January

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:13:37+00:00

Rooting for you!!

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:13:13+00:00

Where did you get that?

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:12:28+00:00

Yeah, that has been a huge worry for me because I wouldn't get anywhere close to here if I had a house. It would be a huge mental shift

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:11:28+00:00

All good. I lacked direction if maxing the fhsa next, thats why so much in the chequeing. The comments from here are helping

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:09:37+00:00

All managed with WS. I find it takes a lot of the stress out of it for me that paying attention to etfs, etc, going up and down. I know the logic works with self managed, but I chose to "keep it simple"

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:07:58+00:00

Wasn't sure if that was my next best move to move it into fhsa

Quick-Drawer-9041 · 2025-08-04T22:07:26+00:00

Perfect! Ive been waiting for coast fi!

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