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Got a call back from a job I applied for, but the hourly expectations are way above what I expected. I was only expecting three days of availability but they evidently want 40 hrs. for 6 months so now I need to figure out if I can go down to two days with my current job, if I can handle 7 day weeks for 6 months and how often I can give up shifts for my current job to have a day or two off every now and then. I could really use 6 months of that pay (at least $5 more/hr than I currently make). Ugh. Stress time!
 
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scarletmike said:
Got a call back from a job I applied for, but the hourly expectations are way above what I expected. I was only expecting three days of availability but they evidently want 40 hrs. for 6 months so now I need to figure out if I can go down to two days with my current job, if I can handle 7 day weeks for 6 months and how often I can give up shifts for my current job to have a day or two off every now and then. I could really use 6 months of that pay (at least $5 more/hr than I currently make). Ugh. Stress time!
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If you're stressed now, imagine yourself two months in of 7 days a week with 4 to go.....

I've done 7 days a week, 12+ hours a day....if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it can be worth it but you just gotta make sure that light is very, very bright!
 
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BUCKYLE said:
Yeah making good money is fun, but having no time off really gets to you after a while.
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When I worked a schedule like that in Iraq it wasn't horri b le but it was pre-kid and it's not like there eas much else to do.

I just ended a 3 month stretch of no less than 5 - 10 hour shifts but more often 6 and a few times 7, on mids no less. Not fun at all indeed.
 
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Mike80 said:
When I worked a schedule like that in Iraq it wasn't horri b le but it was pre-kid and it's not like there eas much else to do.

I just ended a 3 month stretch of no less than 5 - 10 hour shifts but more often 6 and a few times 7, on mids no less. Not fun at all indeed.
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Shit, before I had a kid, I'd work 90 hr weeks constantly and still had me time, which means i had bar time.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
[Mark May], before I had a kid, I'd work 90 hr weeks constantly and still had me time, which means i had bar time.
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No doubt your job was more physically grueling than mine is - usually what my job entailed these past 3 months is getting the chiefs ready for their morning briefings, figuring out what the hell the previous shifts did and running through massive software upgrades and patches and hoping and praying the old ass equipment we're using didn't break while doing it.

Edit to add: it will be nice after this week off for my crew because I'll be able to devote more time to training them up on a couple things that they've had to learn on the fly.
 
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Waiting in the HR lobby and a guy walks in carrying a baby and sits down in the lobby as the baby starts to cry. Why!?

I know, I don't know the situation, but come on! The guy is waiting for his wife/gf because she came out real quick, but still...why?
 
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scarletmike said:
Waiting in the HR lobby and a guy walks in carrying a baby and sits down in the lobby as the baby starts to cry. Why!?

I know, I don't know the situation, but come on! The guy is waiting for his wife/gf because she came out real quick, but still...why?
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It's awful. A lady had a screaming baby in here a couple months back -- they were only here for maybe 10 minutes, but in that time....wow. I understand how babies get shaken. I wanted to throw it out the window.
 
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