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This type of comment always surprises me, it is very short sighted.

so the criteria for success is 'making six digits' which you correlate to hard work and intelligence.

That ignores the following cases:

- Intelligent, hard working but not high income ( Academics)

- circumstances, today you make 'six digits' but due to thousands of variables ( Market, industry, health) you lose the ability to generate that income after having kids

- being hard working, intelligent does not make you any better parent, in fact there is a case for the opposite where you cannot dedicated time to the raising of children.

- Anecdotally I personally know many people who are making six digits, who would probably make terrible parents

"Article also doesn't advise strongly enough to do an online or early checkin."

What is not clear from your statement is that, if you try to check in online, you must pay for seat selection, unless You check in to the website 'exactly' 24 hours before your flight, even a few minutes earlier you have to pay extra just to get a damn seat.

there is no option for "I dont care just give me any seat"

you do not have the option of checking in and choosing a seat at the time of purchasing your ticket. I dont know about you but that feels like they just want to charge me extra unless I jump through ridiculous hoops just to get a seat for a ticket that I have already paid for.

I have been put on GTE for exactly this reason at least 6 times in the last year, and have not eventually been given a seat only once and bumped to the next flight

Air Canada is one of the worst airlines I have ever had the displeasure to fly.

I had this exact experience a few weeks ago with Air Canada out of Vancouver. I ended up with the dreaded GTE on my boarding pass, buy essentially refusing to be extorted ( paying for preferred seating)

You would think, buying the damn ticket entitles you to a seat, but not in Air Canada, unless you are willing to pay extra.

the most recent time I had this issue, The office travel coordinator booked my flight, I got an email asking me to go online and select a seat. except the system wanted to charge me $15 to select a preferred seat, and no option to select a seat without paying extra.

I actually called customer support and they told me, the only way you can be guaranteed a seat, without paying extra for it is to wait and login to their website exactly 24 hours before the flight and manually choose a seat.

otherwise you will not be guaranteed a seat and will be on standby and assigned a seat at the gate.

It felt like extortion, and is one of the sleaziest companies I have ever dealt with.

unfortunately, I cannot book my own business trips, and it takes a while for the new travel coordinators to believe me when I tell them "I would rather crawl across the country then fly on Air Canada"

you are imaging bigotry where there is none in the above comment.

it would equally apply if the wife was the sole bread winner,

Im having the same challenges. In my case working from home not by choice, and will likely continue to be remote for a few more months.

Its not too bad when the kids are at school, but my biggest challenge is to convince my wife that 'I'm working'

I keep telling her 'No, I cannot watch the baby or run errands' because I need to focus on what I'm doing. She tells me she understands ,but after a few days it starts again.

I've done Coffee shops and libraries and I like working in that setting, my two main concerns are

- Meeting/Phone calls ( I dont want to disturb others)

- Physical Security ( too much of a hassle to take my laptop with me to the bathroom, and no proper anchor point)

If I don't have any more meetings for the day, I will just go and work from the Library/Coffee shop.

I've seen other guys working from coffee shops, that somehow take phone calls and attend meetings ,and I can barely hear them. If I ever master that skill "speaking quietly, yet clearly without actually whispering" it would make a big difference in my life.

I must have missed something in the article. the main cons I gleaned are

- some items are not as cheap as walmat/costco like Fluor

- they dont create as much jobs as traditional grocery stoes ( 9 vs 14)

I assume the folks who are struggling are not stupid .. and have looked at every conceivable way of stretching their dollar and judging by the demand it (Dollar store) is providing a valuable service.

I take another exception to the approach this article takes .. instead of complaining about dollar stores moving into poor/urban areas why are they giving a pass to the established grocery chains for moving out ? it seems like providing 9 employment positions is better than the 0 being offered by the other stores.

Like most people here, it is purely an issue of momentum. I completed my studies and got married in this city.

Where I live is ok, im used to it lots of family around .. but deep in side somehow I feel stifled