I have two job offers, HALP

[RossMAN]

Since the lesser-paying job is driving a school bus...this is more than appropriate:

My first LOL of the day and it's almost 2PM, back in the day this would've happened by 10AM.

 

[eng2d2]

congrats

 

[BrokenVisage]

4am start time? fuck that.

 

[SKORPI0]

4am start time? fuck that.

I've been with my current job working from 4am-1pm, Mon-Friday for the last 5 1/2 years. Prior to that was 7-4pm. Good thing I only drive about 2 miles to work.

 

[rudeguy]

4am start time? fuck that.

I would love it.

My dream schedule is 6-2:30

 

[Ruptga]

Well, I thought I'd be getting up at 4 in order to be on time at 5, but it turns out the shift starts at 5:30, so I'll probably be getting up at 4:30.

...gods damn it, just reading that makes me hate my life. I'm gonna be asleep by 9 every night, I didn't even do that when I was in grade school.

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

Well, at first you'll just be tired at work, then you'll start going to sleep early out of necessity. You'll handle it.

 

[rudeguy]

Well, I thought I'd be getting up at 4 in order to be on time at 5, but it turns out the shift starts at 5:30, so I'll probably be getting up at 4:30.

...gods damn it, just reading that makes me hate my life. I'm gonna be asleep by 9 every night, I didn't even do that when I was in grade school.

You will soon covet naps.

Grats on getting 2 job offers. Who cares if they aren't ATOT 100k jobs? A job is a job.

 

[Ruptga]

Yeah I've done this before, had to be at one job by 5 every day. I'll adapt out of necessity, doesn't mean I have to like it though

I'm still happy about it though. It's true that neither option is a good choice for a permanent job, but they're both still a step up.

 

[BoomerD]

Well, I thought I'd be getting up at 4 in order to be on time at 5, but it turns out the shift starts at 5:30, so I'll probably be getting up at 4:30.

...gods damn it, just reading that makes me hate my life. I'm gonna be asleep by 9 every night, I didn't even do that when I was in grade school.

Why? You're young...you don't need more than 4-5 hours of sleep. You can sleep when you're dead.

 

[Ruptga]

Why? You're young...you don't need more than 4-5 hours of sleep. You can sleep when you're dead.

No, 4-5 hours is in the adjustment phase. Running on 4-5 hours is what makes sleep by 9 seem appealing.

I tried doing 4-5 hours long term in college... it didn't work. By 11am I was coherent enough to pass as a normal college kid, but the problem was the 6-11 hours, especially in the winter when the sun wasn't up until about 8. There was once I was doing my thing, driving east, then suddenly I shook myself awake and I was a mile away from my last known location and driving south. Never again.

 

[iGas]

IMHO, if I were in your shoes, I would try to find a job that pay more while working at the factory, then take night school to increase my employability and potential for growth in wages.

I get up at 5am, job start at 6:30am, but I'm swipe in often by 6:00~6:15am, and I live 6-7 minute drive away from work (about 10 minute by bicycle in the summer).

Best of all is that my bosses are the best bosses that I ever had, and I get pay a heck of a lot more than 1K/month.

 

[Ruptga]

I might just do something like that, but for the next few weeks I'm just going to be learning this job. I doubt the job itself is that complex, but it takes some time to learn it, learn the employer, learn the co-workers, etc. After 3 months at the most I should have a pretty good idea of my prospects for advancement at that factory. Right now the plan is to (finally) get to AF boot camp in early summer, but if I like the company and, say, I find that I could move up to a 20-25/hour job with an associates in X, I would probably take that over boot camp.

If it were entirely up to me I would have been in the Air Force a few months ago, but between having asthma when I was 7 and having some late payments on my credit history (none current) they decided to bury me in paperwork and waiting periods. Never mind that I scored a 98 on the ASVAB, we have to file medical and financial waivers for things most sane people wouldn't even give five minutes' thought.