I live in BC, when it comes to finding jobs for people that are new programmers, it's either a startup or nothing. Startups have no stability. You have to remember that not all of this country is setup for people to just get fancy tech jobs, easily. In some provinces with less technical jobs, the people that have them hold on to them.

Also what I meant is most professional jobs REQUIRE you to have a bachelor's degree and often they require dumb ones.