Just have to be here, and be willing to bid on these jobs (or work for someone who is). Places like LL, Banff, Canmore, Waterton, etc. dont normally have the manpower or in my case, the type of skilled trade locally, often, especially on larger jobs, the trades are from Calgary or further. They are nice jobs so long as they dont stretch out to long, you are still away from home, living in a hotel. You also run out of touristy type activities pretty quickly, there is a limited amount of things you can or want to do after working a full day, 3 hour hikes are not normally one of them, and there is often not much else.
I also often get sent out there for the absurd jobs, the "install these 3 20ft long 500lb beams on the 3rd floor of a 80 year old wood structure down a hallway full of shoring posts supporting the roof using 3 chain falls a come along, without cutting any holes for your rigging, then weld a clip on without burning the building down", specialty stuff even within the trade
this was LL, install 1" thick ss plates between 400-700lbs ea, me an an apprentice, 2 days to move the 12 plates 200 feet through the site, another 2 days to clean anchors and install plates, a job that was given to us by another steel company that couldn't do the install. Who puts 1" plate around a hot tub ? Rich touristy spots i guess
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