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jcovercash

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I am currently working a job that requires me to be on call. I will be on call for aproximatly 2 years, then I will hold a regular job for 3 years, and go back to being on call after that time is up for anywhere from 10-15 years.

I make anywhere from 40-70k at my current job but I work 7 days a week, on call all the time to make the higher end range, I also have no choice over how much I work it juse depends on how much they need me.

My previous job is offering me $16/hr to come back, this job is monday-thursday 10 hour days. I know its a significant salary drop but I would have a schedule and a life again.....

At my current job I have to pay $125 insurance and $125 union dues a month. Insurnace is free at my previous job. Current job has really good retirment, previous job has 401k and SS. Benifits are slightly better at the current job also. Work load is about the same, but at the current job I work all the time, and never have a schedule so it makes it hard to make any plans.

You think its worth the extra money to stay at the current job and have no life? Or you think that I can survive on the $16/hr pay. Cost of living is pretty resonable where I live.
 
i started to do the math, but i got a headache...if you can survive take the lower paying job/with healthcare and enjoy life for a while. you can always go back to being a slave.
 
How about Choice C) - Neither one. Find one with better pay and a good schedule. What exactly is it you do (and what's your annual income normally at your current job? 40k-70k is a HUGE spread)
 
You may actually be happier at the old job. At least you'll have your nights free and Fri,Sat,Sun totally free. 🙂 You'll only be pulling in about $31,000/yr though. Is that enough for you to live on and have money put away in case of emergencies?

If you old job has good opportunities for promotion and higher earnings, I'd probably consider that route, unless you can pull in $70,000/yr consistantly at your current job.
 
Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
How about Choice C) - Neither one. Find one with better pay and a good schedule. What exactly is it you do (and what's your annual income normally at your current job? 40k-70k is a HUGE spread)
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Well thats exactly it, it can vary that much. One paycheck last week was $2300 before taxes (2 weeks - $59800 yr.) This weeks was $1500 (2 weeks - $39000 yr.)

I work for the railroad currently on call. Depending on how much I get called my pay varies, it is slow right now in two months it will pick up and i will be making the higher end of the spectrum, but will be working 7 days a week every 8-10 hours. Spending alot of nights out of town hundreds of miles from home, so some of my off time is spent in a motel room where I can not do anything useful.

Previous job was CNC machine work.

I really enjoyed both jobs, the managment at the current job sucks big time and I depise them which doesnt help, and when I do need time off I can never get in touch with them. Last job was a family run buisness and it was a very friendly atomosphere from all directions for the most part.
 
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
You may actually be happier at the old job. At least you'll have your nights free and Fri,Sat,Sun totally free. 🙂 You'll only be pulling in about $31,000/yr though. Is that enough for you to live on and have money put away in case of emergencies?

If you old job has good opportunities for promotion and higher earnings, I'd probably consider that route, unless you can pull in $70,000/yr consistantly at your current job.
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Im probally looking at topping out at somewhere around $20-$25 an hour at the old job If I went back, but thats years and years down the road. I belive I can live off $16/hr even on my own, I currently have $250 worth a bills a month and one of those is a CC im using to build credit that can be paid off at any time, and the other is a car payment that will be paid off in sub 6 months.

The current job I can make 70k reguarly but I will be working every 8-10hours spending many nights out of town. Working every single day, and when im not at work being on call. I will not have any off days to make that kind of money.
 
Go with life. Life is BS if your working all the time. I can see working a lot and then going out with your friends after work to bars and clubs and stuff but I don't think you are doing that?

Don't waste your youth as you can't buy it back no matter how much £££ you have.

Koing
 
Hey Josh, haven't seen you around since the name change (whenever that happened).

I would recomend that you decide which will make you happier and go with that.
 
Originally posted by: Shaftatplanetquake
Hey Josh, haven't seen you around since the name change (whenever that happened).

I would recomend that you decide which will make you happier and go with that.
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Joseph my man, whats up!

Yea I have been busy busy busy, started this job about the time of the name change. Only reason I am off right now is food poisioning 🙁, just now getting over it (never been so sick in my life)

The problem with deciding what will make me happier is IDK! Im stuck. Im just trying to decide if I can live off the $16/Hr decently on my own. I still live with my parents as they are letting me untill I can move out on my own financially. I have talked this over with them and they understand the situation I am in because they see how much I work all the time.

If I go back im looking at aprox. $1k every two weeks after taxes. So that is aprox. $2200 a month to live off of.... Sounds rough I know but cost of living in this area of NC isnt that high.
 
why are you keeping a balance on the CC? you earn credit by having the card and using it every month. you are not required to carry a balance to earn credit though. pay it off every month so you dont get stuck paying interest.

 
Originally posted by: jcovercash
any more opinions?
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Yeah, counter offer for more compensation. If they don't budge, then I'd stick with the current job for a little while longer and pay off a home mortgage asap so your expenses drop.
 
Originally posted by: Trippin315
Go back, but if they want you back, ask for and extra 4K ($18 an hour)
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Well the $16/hr is already $6/hr more than I was making when I left there. I was underpaid when I left and they are offering for me to come back at average pay for the field of work with my experiance.
 
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: jcovercash
any more opinions?
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Yeah, counter offer for more compensation. If they don't budge, then I'd stick with the current job for a little while longer and pay off a home mortgage asap so your expenses drop.
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😕 I dont have a home mortgage....
 
Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
why are you keeping a balance on the CC? you earn credit by having the card and using it every month. you are not required to carry a balance to earn credit though. pay it off every month so you dont get stuck paying interest.
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STFU man 😛 You are supposed to be helping me anyway, got time to post on ATOT but can't help out your bud!

My CC has 2.99% im carrying like a $1k balance from something I purchased a few months ago... I normally do the buy it pay it off thing, but I bought somehting and used my cc for it instead of charging crap everymonth since my interest rate is so low...... When its paid off im going back to getting gas and food on it.....
 
Sounds like you really want to go back to the old job and get a life again.

Take the old job, and if you really want more money get a second job. You can combine a social life and a second job if you do something like bartending or selling stuff at flea markets or play the piano at square dances or whatever you like.
 
Originally posted by: badmouse
Sounds like you really want to go back to the old job and get a life again.

Take the old job, and if you really want more money get a second job. You can combine a social life and a second job if you do something like bartending or selling stuff at flea markets or play the piano at square dances or whatever you like.
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Well I make some money doing stuff on the net, although I have no time to do that with my current job, and yes I would like to go back to the old job, i enjoyed life so much more when i worked there, even when I was making $10/Hr. at it.... But I will miss the money/benifits.
 
After working 3,500 hours last year and about killing myself (health still is fvcked up), I vote for life!
 
The extra money isn't worth anything at all if you don't have the time to use some of it and enjoy it. I found that out the hard way.
 
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