So currently I am working for a radiology company routing images to doctors and nurses and getting reports. The pay is okay at $13/hr but it's not exactly the field I really want to be in. I've been seeking out jobs more in the electronics / technical side of things and managed to get a call from Sprint for a phone technician position (the guy that fixes stuff lol). The pay is around the same at $13.35/hr + commission on accessory sales and I would probably like the job a little more... but I've come to a conclusion that has pushed me to decline this offer.
Floating schedules. Not just floating days, but floating hours as well and all subject to change on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. Days are not off side by side and are almost always split on random days of the week. In my eyes, a schedule like this is a nightmare! I haven't worked a schedule like that since I was a teen.
This job is a technician job with retail hours! You could pay me up to $16-$17/hr and I would still decline. My static M-F job is far more important to me. How would I even begin to make plans doing, well, much of anything?
Anybody here work constantly changing schedules? Would you take a floating schedule for a small pay bump? Would you prefer a static schedule?
I think work schedules are an important aspect of a job, but I don't think one type is better than the other. How it works for someone depends on how it affects other aspects of one's personal life. That's as much advice I dare give on the subject.
Floating schedules are prone to sinkage. :biggrin:
Yup Shoe..working from home or self employment does require a degree of discipline. It's actually not that tough to get started, but over time people have a tendency to slack off, take the day off here and there, go to lunch early and so on and before you know it your bank account starts looking kind of sad.. On the other hand you get to pat yourself on the back and enjoy the fruits of your own labor instead of handing it all over to some corporate asshole.
Glad you turned down Sprint wolf. I turned them down too, not employment, but paying them for shitty service. Have you considered using your skills to earn your own bread instead of paying some corporate CEO to fuck you over?
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on June 29, 2014, 04:08:09 PM
Yup Shoe..working from home or self employment does require a degree of discipline. It's actually not that tough to get started, but over time people have a tendency to slack off, take the day off here and there, go to lunch early and so on and before you know it your bank account starts looking kind of sad.. On the other hand you get to pat yourself on the back and enjoy the fruits of your own labor instead of handing it all over to some corporate asshole.
Glad you turned down Sprint wolf. I turned them down too, not employment, but paying them for shitty service. Have you considered using your skills to earn your own bread instead of paying some corporate CEO to fuck you over?
Several people were given the opportunity to work from home on my last job. Some ended up coming back, because they either lacked the discipline to work at home with distractions or else actually missed the office setting. I was the acting facility manager and had to physically be there, even though other aspects of my job qualified me to work from home. At that point I was so used to working away from home I probably would've turned it down anyway. I was always paranoid some shit would go wrong or some politics were being played without my knowledge when I wasn't there.
When I'm going full steam with my art on a drawing (before I got a second job) i liked being able to designate a few days a month to have off if I needed it. So if someone invited me somewhere I could take a "vacation day" and go spend some time. I would only do 3 a month. And I would work on Sunday and Saturday, so basically the idea of a weekend is a lost concept...
I got a lot of work done, but because I'm not established enough yet, I need a second job and now I have a set schedule that is given to me the month before. But knowing that when my art career starts going in gear enough to just do that along side some workshops for supplemental cash, I can do the first schedule I said. 3 days off a month that I can take in an instant. And the rest is work time. It takes a ton of discipline because the only person that makes sure I'm actually working is me, but it worked in the past!
Sent from your mom
Quote from: drunkenshoe on June 30, 2014, 06:18:23 AM
This is similar to my current position. But sometimes I lose track and the vacation day becomes a vacation week. :redface: Esp. in summers
This is a bit off topic, but looking back, the best jobs I had, and I've had many, were ones that allowed me to be autonomous. The last job kind of sucked because I was working indirectly for military officers who are all trying to get promoted, so they bug you about ridiculous shit you have no control over. But as facility manager, which took up a lot of my time, I was largely in control of my situation. Plus I was dealing with stuff no one else knew about like air conditioning issues, equipment issues and mechanical issues which I have a long history with. I also ran the coffee fund and oversaw building maintenance, including cleaning contractors and document shredders, copy machine repair, etc. Busy day but interesting. I was the "go to" guy. :biggrin:
I was a retail mgr for many years. The schedule sometimes sucked, but I really liked having a weekday off now and then. No lines at the grocer, etc.