After my 5 month Carpentry program at MITT, I quickly started a job at WinnPro Construction. WinnPro has built a number of well known buildings from ground up around the city such as Mastermind Toys, Za Pizza, Jollibees, and Marks Work Warehouse, to name a few. I helped with concrete forming and pouring, as well as framing, siding, molding, as well as Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries sub contracted maintenance work.

Drove grain bin tractor in Western Australia during Australia’s harvest season. Farm had fields of Canola, Wheat, and Barley! Amazing experience working overseas. Learned a lot about working hard during 16+ hour work days in the scorching Australian heat! Other farm tasks included herding sheep and cattle to different fields, tail docking sheep, building sheep and cattle fences, cleaning grain bins and equipment apart from regular daily machinery maintenance.

My role at CWS was to clean, cut down, and throw old used chemical bins in a large machine that cut the bins down into small pieces to then be reused to make new bins. Very labor intensive job that was short lived because I started the MITT carpentry program.

Seasonal landscaper for Green Prairie Landscaping. My duties involved laying sod, filling in rock beds, fall leaf removal, and winter snow removal. Spent the majority of my time with the company during fall leaf removal as well as during winter snow removal until there was a period of no snow, which meant very little hours which caused me to quit prior to my carpentry apprenticeship course starting at MITT in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

I worked in a department called Think4D, where I was a quality control worker. Think4D is a plastic forming section of Friesens print factory where they create molded plastic packaging for companies like Gillette. This job included working from 6am - 6pm, sitting around a table with 7 others, checking to see if the print on the plastic lined up with the shape of the Gillette razor packaging. The days were very long and VERY repetitive, but I worked with some very energetic and talkative people which made the work more tolerable. I usually worked four 12-hour days in a row, so we had some flexibility with our schedule which was very nice.