Monday, March 14, 2005

中午忙裡偷閒

好累好累。
有點頭痛。
脖子好酸。

看著電腦,
等一下又要開會。

昨天與好友講電話,講到一點多。
她在香港工作,剛好是午餐時間。
要讀CFA,因為人人都在讀。
壓力好大,也不知道到底自己真正喜歡甚麼。
在加拿大回去香港的朋友不少。
大家都有自己的原因: 
家人在香港,
另一半要去香港,
在加國找不到工作,
或是自己想要試試。

不同的理由,

有著一些共通點;
畢竟是外國人的地方,
加上加拿大可是「萬稅之國」,
要賺大錢也要繳多稅。

一個加國大學商科(B-com/BBA)畢業生,
第一份工作,平均應該有兩萬八到三萬加幣年薪。
除稅後,有兩萬二/三左右,
亦就是每月港幣一萬二/三。
可能比在香港工作的收入多一點點。

但以工作的步伐與環境來講,
加拿大應該比香港少一點緊張與擁擠。
有同事在這裡工作到九點半,
已經差不多是最後離開公司的人。
在香港,他九點半離開,
還有整公司的人在工作。
那以平均時薪來說,加拿大比較高。

但加國有消費稅,安大略省十五巴仙。
加上又會給小費,所以平常開支也不少。
在香港的開支也不少,
因為會shopping得比較瘋狂。><
結果都是存不了錢。

交通方面,在香港要坐車;
暑假時回香港,又覺得交通費變貴了。
一天來回兩個地方,輕易花掉三十塊。
在加拿大就要開車。
燃料費,保險費,保養費,汽車耗損。
真的要看看你是怎樣開車才能估計。
很難比較。

其實,對剛畢業的人來說,
可能兩地的收入/支出差額差不多,
在加拿大生活比較舒適,安穩。
在香港就是比較多投機或發展機會。

[marz] @ 3/14/2005 02:42:00 p.m.

1 Comments:

# at 3/15/2005 12:57:00 a.m., Blogger Kelvin said... Personally I must say that I'm favourably biased towards working in Canada. But if you look at it in terms standards of living, it really doesn't take a genius to figure out where to work. In HK, the culture is to dedicate your whole life to work, eventhough people are often not productive at work, they would stay at work until the boss leaves. This is the exact opposite in Canada, if the whether is good, sure, take half a day off, enjoy the sun, enjoy life. I don't see how working 12 hrs a day can do any good for people (either mentally or physically). Personally, my philosophy in life is to enjoy life, and working is just something that I MUST do in order to enjoy life. What's the point of working if I can't enjoy life? I think the ppl in HK have their incentives mis-aligned.. work is not the end-all and be-all.  

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