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[–]JamieKlinger 62 points63 points ago

Who are they trying to attract with this advertisement?

[–]langaraorange 33 points34 points ago

Young people riding the bus. It's a government skills program.

[–]SnakeDiver 1 point2 points ago

Not really. It's a website that showcases a series of videos which highlight different jobs around the province. Everything from bus driver to chef.

While aimed at young people, it is useful for anyone looking to shift their career. Or even those just interested in what's involved in other jobs.

Here's a faster link for you: www.careertrekbc.ca

[–]Moh7 86 points87 points ago

Art students

[–]CuriousAbra 14 points15 points ago

Nah, it's all the damn hip scientists choking up the city. Thinking they're too cool for quantized light, talking all this mess about a luminiferous ether.

[–]probablynotyou 0 points1 point ago

I think it's more of a 'whole world revolving and ideas blossoming here's a spark where is this from where is this going where do you want to go where did you come from lets go over there and do something productive and not be lazy and start a conversation or do something else or hey enjoy thinking about something new on your train ride or thinking about who you can inspire in a positive sense because you already have a job, or a friend, or a computer, or eyes, or legs, or something or anything and everything, etc. all at once" - it kind of has different meanings to most anyone, even including hipsters.

[–]PDK01 1 point2 points ago

Jesus, punctuate man.

[–]papadopus 0 points1 point ago

irony

[–]Ceejae 18 points19 points ago

Exactly. Hipster is a derogatory statement. No one (or very few people) actively considers themselves to be a hipster, just the same as very few assholes consider themselves to be an asshole.

[–]bobdobbsisdead 10 points11 points ago

It's been reclaimed and adopted by a lot of east van hipsters.

[–]mal4ik_mbongo 2 points3 points ago

Just to clarify, it has been adopted ironically.

[–]shamecamel 2 points3 points ago

I wouldn't say being a hipster is bad, there just are hipsters who are douche bags, and it's not exactly hard to tell when you say hipster to be an insult.

[–]Wondering_Wandering 3 points4 points ago

It's ironic because everyone is a hipster. Right now our culture is based upon "hipster ideals" (ie reclaiming and reinventing the past and the resurgence of individuality.) Probably because we're in a sort of cultural slump.

[–]shodanx 7 points8 points ago

people who think they hate hipsters

and by hipsters they mean anyone who is different

actual hipsters probably don't exist

[–]zublits 1 point2 points ago

Different? Lol.

[–]shodanx 1 point2 points ago

that's pretty much the only usable definition

"rides fixed speed bike and wear homeless person clothes" hardly qualifies

[–]Cytosine 0 points1 point ago

How about "communist liberal faggots who spend all their time drinking expensive coffee, bitching about the government, and not contributing to society"?

[–]shodanx 1 point2 points ago

that's not really hip now is it ?

[–]robbysalz -4 points-3 points ago

trust fund people that jetset around to fashionable places and hang out around town

[–]bobdobbsisdead 9 points10 points ago

jetset

I do not think this word means what you think it means.

[–]rm01 98 points99 points ago

"My affliction t shirt and tribal tats still qualify me for unemployment benefits though, right?"

-Surrey

[–]jerradlabrie 26 points27 points ago

I drive a vehicle.

-Langley

[–]KINGKRONG 23 points24 points ago

"Corn!" - Chilliwack

[–]darthricardo 8 points9 points ago

"Wine!" -Penticton

[–]Arngrim60D 6 points7 points ago

I don't need to werk. The government pays for everything for me. -prince G

[–]calmlunatic 2 points3 points ago

"Let's go to Vegas!" -Prince Harry.

[–]Norse_of_60 1 point2 points ago

if you can't get laid in Chilliwack there is always Hope.

Also. Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone whatcha gonna do?

[–]only-for-throwaway 2 points3 points ago

You mean horse. Horse capital for shame...

[–]jerradlabrie 0 points1 point ago

True. But I'm part of the langley city folk.

[–]only-for-throwaway 0 points1 point ago

as was I ('swood); but I escaped ;)

[–]Norse_of_60 2 points3 points ago

Feeding whores to my pigs - Picton.

[–]jerradlabrie -1 points0 points ago

I went to his trial. He looked greasy as fuck.

[–]radioslave 10 points11 points ago

"Get in line"

-Whalley

[–]dkonradm 13 points14 points ago

This ad isn't targeted to hipsters. It's targeted to the to the go-getters, who don't want to be associated as a hipster.

[–]Smuglord 108 points109 points ago

I HAD A JOB

BEFORE IT WAS COOL

[–]A_1337_Canadian 23 points24 points ago

It's a real job, we just haven't heard about it yet.

[–]n1c0_ds 20 points21 points ago

It's okay to say "hipster" is not a real job? Being a hispster doesn't imply unemployment, and I doubt it would get any unemployed hipster to apply.

[–]gavriloe 14 points15 points ago

Yeah really. I mean a sub culture of hispterism is possibly rebellion against capitalism, which includes a DIY nature, but to suggest that all hipster are unemployed is not very good advertising.

[–]Blahface2 2 points3 points ago

I would say a Do it Yourself nature is a particularly prominent part of hipsterism, because if you want something and dont do it yourself (or buy from some local small business) you have to buy into the capitalist order and thereby support it. The 'capitalism'-subculture hipsterism is instinctively repellant against is the 'real job' the desk job, working for the man, molding oneself into a square shaped peg to fit into a square shaped hole. This ad will be laughed at by every hipster. But somehow i dont think it is targeted at hispters.

[–]leafsleafs17 0 points1 point ago

I don't think that advertisement was to get hipsters to go to the website. I think it was one of those ads to make the website 'get out there'.

[–]care_sauce 36 points37 points ago

Who is pretending it is a real job?

[–]terriblehuman 6 points7 points ago

hipsters

[–]ipfreely_12386 0 points1 point ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

[–]no_sense_of_humour 53 points54 points ago

Apparently, hating hipsters is now mainstream...

I was hating hipsters before it was cool.

[–]shamecamel 7 points8 points ago

Weren't the"hated people" before them, the emos? Hate guys for being fake, not because they wear trendy clothes. Reddit is starting to sound like an angry old man in the 70s who hates "them hippies"

[–]vanostran 19 points20 points ago

I hated hating hipsters before it was cool.

[–]entirely_irrelephant 10 points11 points ago

I heard you liked hating hipsters.

[–]HolodeckJizzmopper 7 points8 points ago

Thinking what this implies ... "We put a hipster in your hipster" ... hurts my brain ...

[–]swilts 31 points32 points ago

Fuck I love Vancouver. You guys are really giving us a run for our money as being the coolest city. If only it didn't cost infinity million dollars to live there.

[–]RoflCopter4 15 points16 points ago

Hey, don't forget Edmonton. We have... uh...

Fuck me.

[–]renegadecanuck 8 points9 points ago

We have relatively cheap rent and gas prices? (Emphasis on relatively).

Also: controversy over any project that attempts to improve the city.

[–]swilts 3 points4 points ago

Nah we have that too. I think it's an any urban centre in north america problem

[–]RoflCopter4 3 points4 points ago

The difference is that here people don't just argue about money and space, they argue that the city is good enough already and we shouldn't bother improving it. It's absolutely baffling.

[–]PhedreRachelle 1 point2 points ago

I thought there were a number of improvement initiatives in the city? Cleaning up downtown and extending the LRT are 2 I am certain of

[–]teasin 0 points1 point ago

No no no on the cheap rent. Cheap to buy a house, cheap to buy a condo, and I could hardly wait to move back to Victoria when I finished at the UofA so my rent and food costs could be reasonable. Vancouver has some really affordable areas/buildings to rent, if you look for them. Source: my sis, who is on her 3rd affordable apartment in the West End.

[–]DankZappa 3 points4 points ago

wem..

[–]PhedreRachelle 1 point2 points ago

Well I wasn't happy when I first came here, but then I started to dig deeper.

We have one of the best music scenes in Canada. EDM and Metal in particular, but we get all of the other big names as well as the more obscure.

We are really the city of festivals (although authorities are fighting this hard).

The arts culture is actually extensive and provides real opportunities.

If you're more on the professional side, many high profile businesses come out of here. J. Ennis Fabrics and The Brick Warehouse to name 2. We are able to attract great talent from all over the world (this happens to be my job).

Yet with all of this it still has that small town feel.

I like Edmonton now :). Not everything or everyone, but in general it has definitely grown on me

[–]thewetcoast 0 points1 point ago

A tree?

[–]LinuxUser4Life 0 points1 point ago

No PST? That is pretty huge. I wish I didn't have to fucking pay 13% tax on everything, shitty Ontario.

[–]itsSparkky 29 points30 points ago

I like how people think you're using hyperbole when you explain the rent prices.

It's cute.

[–]Wulibo 14 points15 points ago

"And for a small house just outside of the city, so I can still go in for the cool events?" "ONE MILLION DOLLARS!" "Why can't you be serious for five minutes?"

[–]swilts 7 points8 points ago

In Montreal that would buy you two triplexes close to downtown. So space for 6 families.

[–]Wulibo 24 points25 points ago

yeah, but you guys speak french there sometimes.

[–]swilts 9 points10 points ago

zut!

[–]zublits 0 points1 point ago

Apartments aren't that bad.

[–]ipolvi 14 points15 points ago

Apartment prices are still really bad in Van, even the rental market is out of control. Plus wages for "normal" jobs seem to be lower than they would be anywhere else. I love Vancouver, but its doing everything it can to drive young people away.

[–]Wulibo 4 points5 points ago

Pretty much. I want to go into teaching, but there is no way I can live in this fantastic city AND do that. Unless I just live with my parents forever, but I kind of want to live with my girlfriend eventually

ugh

[–]darthricardo 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, I was seriously considering moving there for a while. The only kind of place I could afford was your stereotypical shitty apartment 2 hours out of downtown. No thanks.

[–]bkinley 2 points3 points ago

Haha...whats cute is moving here after living in SF.

Deals everywhere!

[–]canuckmoose 0 points1 point ago

Yeah but SF has a real economy.

[–]bkinley 0 points1 point ago

Haha, people in SF say the same about vancouver.

[–]MichaelTiberiusScot 0 points1 point ago

Have you seen the rent in place like Toronto? Also, San Fran, New York, and LA make Vancouver look cheaper when you compare neighbourhoods.

Job market isn't too shabby if you pick the right field too. Overall, Vancouver is a pretty cheap place to rent considering how much it would cost to buy the same place.

[–]Rumicon 1 point2 points ago

Who's us?

[–]pigmamicron005 37 points38 points ago

The "hipsters" I know are the most hard-working of my friends. Seriously. Style costs money.

[–]fernguts 32 points33 points ago

Not all hipsters are the same. One of my hipster friends works two jobs (as well as going to university part-time), and buys all of his clothes second-hand. His bike is ancient, and he does all the repairs on it himself.

I have a couple of other hipster friends though, who get all of their money from mommy and daddy's trust fund. They shop at boutiques and ride $2000 bicycles.

[–]gavriloe 49 points50 points ago

So basically... They are just like other people? Who would have thought.

[–]muddzm 16 points17 points ago

Seriously, and it's not as if "hipster" style was even clearly defined. You can call anything/anyone hipster these days and you'd be correct.

[–]Thumper86 5 points6 points ago

If you're spending money on your style you're not hipster.

Goodwill yo.

[–]murdochmoss 1 point2 points ago

something reddit doesn't understand yet, hipster does not mean scenester, people who want to "look hipster" but are more like preps. Hipsters and granolas have much more in common.

[–]Thumper86 4 points5 points ago

hip·ster    [hip-ster]
noun Slang.

  1. a person who is hip.
  2. a person characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships.
  3. a subset of the cereal family. Similar other grains such as oats and granolas.

[–]youthattack 5 points6 points ago

  1. a person who has an understanding of design and aesthetics that I find threatening

[–]pizzlepaps -2 points-1 points ago

/s right? big woosh on me?

[–]mgomob 11 points12 points ago

Unemployment in Vancouver just shot through the roof.

[–]transformers3 1 point2 points ago

It's really bugging me that this this so grammatically incorrect.

[–]kano321 5 points6 points ago

This ad is only useful in Vancouver if it was on the #3.

It would cause a public outcry in montreal though!

[–]gavriloe 0 points1 point ago

Yeah seriously those Indian hipsters need to get it together.

[–]Vranak 10 points11 points ago

I prefer hipsters to people who think that if you're not working that there's something the matter with you.

If work is so great then why does everyone complain about it? If it's so great then why wouldn't everyone want to do it? If it's so great then shouldn't I be doing it of my own free will?

[–]ipolvi 15 points16 points ago

At any other point in time or in most other places on Earth if you didn't/ don't work, you'd die of starvation. A job is the equivalent of hunting or gathering. You can't just opt out of it because you don't "feel" like it and expect the rest of society to support you.

[–]aeppelcyning 0 points1 point ago

I'm not sure why this comment has upset so many people. I think maybe people are having difficulty distinguishing between those who refuse to work and those who are down on their luck or have suffered unemployment recently but who are fully willing to take employment if they find it.

The bottom line is that we all enjoy the benefits of living in society (you can read this, for one). I am always particularly perplexed by those who deride the moral value (and it is a moral issue) of working and then demand more social programs on the other. I'm not against more social programs at all, but the point is that they are funded as a result of economic activity (work).

ipolvi's right, you would die several hundred years ago if you didn't work. If you decided to stay in bed all day, your field went unsown and you didn't eat, simple as that. We happen to live in a society of plenty now, aided by technology, so we have built up a very generous society. As such it is theoretically possible now for someone not to contribute anything and still be supported by society through programs built out of compassion (and the fact we have such abundance). I really hope people are capable of understanding that, and don't honestly believe their social support payments just magically appear. I really hope they know that these come from other people who are working, who are giving up a portion of their labour's fruits out of charity.

Of course, unemployment is the other side of the coin and certainly nothing to make fun of. A lot of hardworking loyal people have been hit hard the last few years and ipolvi's point I don't think was denigrating them. The system they contributed to over the years has built the social support system which they can now turn to, to support them. I think it was a Conservative leadership candidate in the 70s who said "I have nothing but admiration for all who work; nothing but sympathy for those who can’t work; and nothing but contempt for those who won’t work".

[–]Vranak -4 points-3 points ago

So let's see, is hunting, fishing, or collecting berries "work" in your worldview?

[–]jjrs 2 points3 points ago

Yup. "Work" isn't some novel concept dreamed up by parents in the 1950's just to eat up the free time of their adult children. It is defined as:

  1. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; toil.

  2. something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking:

  3. productive or operative activity.

Hunting for food for you and your family most certainly falls in those definitions.

[–]ipolvi 3 points4 points ago

Hunting, fishing and collecting berries is most definitely work if your life depends upon it. Especially when conditions are less than optimal.

Building shelter, collecting wood and cooking are also work.

Going to work to earn money is the equivalent of these things. All of those survival tasks would have taken up the majority of your waking hours a few hundred years ago. Quite frankly, sitting and pecking at a key board is really really fucking easy compared to what your great great grandparents had to do to not die.

Everything is amazing and no one is happy.

[–]Vranak -3 points-2 points ago

You seem to have some sort of protestant work ethic ingrained into you thinking, where life has to be tough and if it's not then you're doing it wrong. Needless to say I think this is a pretty regrettable attitude. If I'm wrong and I am misjudging your comments, so much the better.

I find stuff like building a shelter or a fire or catching a fish to be fun (as long as you know how to do it), and thus not work. Just because it helps you survive it doesn't mean it has to be grueling or unpleasant or something you wish you didn't have to do, like jobs tend to be.

[–]filipendulous 3 points4 points ago

Does work have to suck? Can't you enjoy work?

[–]Vranak -1 points0 points ago

Sure but the very fact of having to go in for eight hours a day, five days a week, 45-51 weeks of the year, year after year after year, all so you can afford to make your mortgage and car payment, it seems pretty silly to me, especially since your reward at the end of it all is cancer or a heart attack or dementia or what have you. I don't want any part of that routine thank you very much.

[–]ipolvi 0 points1 point ago

"building a shelter or a fire or catching a fish" is fun when your life doesn't depend upon it.

You live in a fantasy world of plentiful resources and eternal summer. Go live in the bush for 5 years then we can talk. Camping is fun, surviving in Finland without technology is work.

You seem to have no understanding of the world outside your bubble.

Furthermore, you clearly have never had a decent job. You can work for yourself, or a boss/ company that you like doing fulfilling work. It happens all the time. If you hate your job so much go try something else.

Trying to throw some poorly understood Weber crap at me is pretty weak sauce.

[–]Vranak -3 points-2 points ago

You're right to a degree, but you see the more people living close to the land, the easier it gets. It's when the whole economy is built around oil that it becomes difficult to make it in any sort of traditional lifestyle. But as that oil runs out it will become increasingly feasible and attractive.

[–]ipolvi 1 point2 points ago

"You're right to a degree, but you see the more people living close to the land, the easier it gets."

Baloney! Have you ever actually tried "living close to the land"? Have you even tried farming?

The way people idealize it blows my mind. There's a reason that life expectancy of the remaining northern nomadic peoples is about 49.

Traditional lifestyles are nasty, brutish and short.

[–]Vranak -3 points-2 points ago

What I'm saying is that you won't be able to sell a dozen salmon for a lot when some gas-powered boat with heavy electrical machinery can just go crazy with huge nets and drive the price down massively. Take away the gas though and the playing field levels.

[–]ipolvi 1 point2 points ago

Your argument is invalid as it is based on an unfounded assumption. We're not out of gas, although many people wish that we were.

Furthermore, market conditions don't change the fact that survival requires work and that all of our great great great grandparents worked harder than we could ever imagine. Unless they lived in a tropical paradise with a low population density... Which mine most definitely did not.

If you think it's easy to live permanently in the bush, by all means go prove me wrong.

[–]salami_inferno 0 points1 point ago

If you lived in the woods and supported yourself this way, they yes it would be work

[–]salami_inferno 1 point2 points ago

People work to keep the world turning and food on our plates. Our species wouldn't last 2 years if we just started laying around

[–]proudcanadianeh 2 points3 points ago

Damnit, you beat me to it! These are in Victoria also.

[–]itsSparkky 4 points5 points ago

That's the first thing I thought about... this really relates to Victoria, the beautiful land of unemployment.

[–]proudcanadianeh 0 points1 point ago

Wait, what.... What do you mean the land of unemployment?

[–]kiqrgwe 0 points1 point ago

They're also in Prince George.

[–]Norse_of_60 1 point2 points ago

But everyone in Victoria is 80 where hipster means you've had hip replacement surgery.

[–]GreenWasabi 1 point2 points ago

I think this ad belongs in Montreal not Vancouver.

[–]campingknife 1 point2 points ago

O ye of little faith.

[–]xteve 1 point2 points ago

Yes, we still live in a time of compulsory labo(u)r. There's no need to be smug about it.

[–]E_lucas 0 points1 point ago

These are in Kamloops too.

[–]bachinn -1 points0 points ago

What about swag, is that a job?

[–]Devil_Chicken -1 points0 points ago

Dang, I saw this yesterday and was going to post it... Curse you lost karma!

[–]arcticjuniper 1 point2 points ago

Clearly another BC government department out of touch with the citizens. I know many Vancouverites and I can assure you that Hipster is most certainly their full time job. They're daily employment is nothing more than a casual hobby.

[–]TomMichaels88 0 points1 point ago

This makes me so happy

[–]DaweiArch 0 points1 point ago

I saw someone taking a picture of this on a Victoria bus about a week ago. I wonder if they were going for karma too....

[–]inheritor 0 points1 point ago

I love this one. Was this on one of the main street (AKA Hipster central) buses?

[–]Beiti 0 points1 point ago

This needs to be on Austin, TX public transportation. Just sayin'.

[–]chL41 0 points1 point ago

It seems I'm the only one who checked their website. It's good, I suggest looking it up if you're still in school.

[–]non00b 0 points1 point ago

tell that to my barrista

[–]JStrach 0 points1 point ago

I had a job before hipsters did.

[–]part_of_me 0 points1 point ago

i love that the provincial government partially funded the ad.

[–]Serenity101 0 points1 point ago

I thought "hip" and "hipster" disappeared in the late 70's. That'll teach me to grow old(er).

[–]Nomazlab 0 points1 point ago

I saw that when I was on the skytrain. I laughed.

[–]iRapewithiPad 0 points1 point ago

We got the same buses in Edmonton.

[–]jaema 0 points1 point ago

Ha! Saw one of these in Victoria too! Definitely took a pic, but it wasn't quite as nice as this one :)

[–]ngwoo 0 points1 point ago

Is anyone going to walk away from that ad remembering what the ad was about?

Doesn't seem like a very good ad.

[–]Abe_Vigoda -1 points0 points ago

I hate the word hipster. The most overused, irrelevant word in the last decade.

[–]bigpoppastevenson -2 points-1 points ago

I don't know what a hipster is.

[–]Muscovy 4 points5 points ago

It's a subculture thing in which people try to have obscure hobbies/tastes and show their indifference to fashion by very carefully cultivating their own mismatched fashion style.

[–]5tayster 1 point2 points ago

Aww. You beat me to it! I just saw the same advertisement yesterday.

[–]dr_electrofunk 0 points1 point ago

that's awesome

[–]RobMagus -2 points-1 points ago

Repost from /r/vancouver

[–]occupyskyrim -2 points-1 points ago

It is in Vancouver

[–]komenu -3 points-2 points ago

what the fuck does this even mean?

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