Posted: 3/11/2010 8:44:04 AM EDT
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It looks like I have 3 offers open to me right now.
1. Daytime Job that pays OK, and has some room for growth 2. Overnight Job that pays more, has more room for growth and working on stuff I like 3. Go back to work for the company that laid me off without any warning 6 months ago; To a position where i will eventually be hired on by their customer full time. Note: I'm 46 my kids are grown up. |
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Quoted: married and/or girlfriend at home?It looks like I have 3 offers open to me right now. 1. Daytime Job that pays OK, and has some room for growth 2. Overnight Job that pays more, has more room for growth and working on stuff I like 3. Go back to work for the company that laid me off without any warning 6 months ago; To a position where i will eventually be hired on by their customer full time. Note: I'm 46 my kids are grown up. |
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married and/or girlfriend at home?
It looks like I have 3 offers open to me right now. 1. Daytime Job that pays OK, and has some room for growth 2. Overnight Job that pays more, has more room for growth and working on stuff I like 3. Go back to work for the company that laid me off without any warning 6 months ago; To a position where i will eventually be hired on by their customer full time. Note: I'm 46 my kids are grown up. Yes Wife, and kids though adults are still living home (but they are never around) |
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I'd do overnights. Mainly because my wife is finishing up nursing school and wants to work overnights...plus I am more of a night person anyways. Yes I am as well Quoted:
Definitely not #3, I'd cross that one off the list now. I could always take it just to quit 
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Overnight job. In less than 8 years, I've gone from general labor to plant supervisor. I have some college but no degree. I've done it by doing everything I can that the entrenched don't want to do, like working overnights, learning skills for in need positions, working weekends, and so on. If you need a job with "room to grow," work the off shift. Show them everyone who's been drinking coffee and working days is fucking off and you can do it better, faster, more completely, without the support they have. That's how you get ahead in industry/labor. |
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Overnight job. In less than 8 years, I've gone from general labor to plant supervisor. I have some college but no degree. I've done it by doing everything I can that the entrenched don't want to do, like working overnights, learning skills for in need positions, working weekends, and so on. If you need a job with "room to grow," work the off shift. Show them everyone who's been drinking coffee and working days is fucking off and you can do it better, faster, more completely, without the support they have. That's how you get ahead in industry/labor. I'm leaning that way. I tend to like night people more as well Less BS as well |
| After seeing first hand what working nights will do to you physically, there isn't a chance in hell I'd take a night job. I'm lucky in that I fell into a day job right out of school, but it easily could have gone the other way. Where I work, the night people make about $5k more a year. My health, lifestyle, and quality of life are worth way more than that. Once you lose those, it's hard, if not impossible to get it back. Working nights also statistically takes ten years off your life. But if you want to, go ahead. Me, I've got more self respect than that. |
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I'd choose number one because of my specific situation, but it seems that nights would be best for you. Yes more and more I'm thinking that over nights nay be the way to go. Less stress (Day people are stressed) Cooler people to work with (Night people are laid back) Working on stuff I like (always a Plus) It may work into a Day Job eventually, The Hiring manager started on 3rd shift and worked his way up |
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Overnight job. In less than 8 years, I've gone from general labor to plant supervisor. I have some college but no degree. I've done it by doing everything I can that the entrenched don't want to do, like working overnights, learning skills for in need positions, working weekends, and so on. If you need a job with "room to grow," work the off shift. Show them everyone who's been drinking coffee and working days is fucking off and you can do it better, faster, more completely, without the support they have. That's how you get ahead in industry/labor. It isn't anywhere I've been. 
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Fuck the old job so cross that one off. They already have shown you they give a rats ass about you. Take job #2. More room for growth and it's something you like which goes a LONG ways. Buy some good heavy curtains so you can sleep during the day  That is really my only concern Last summer I remember trying to sleep with the neighbor kid dribbling a basket ball all day ..... Wham, Wham, Wham, grrrrrrrr |
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Quoted: Quoted: Overnight job. In less than 8 years, I've gone from general labor to plant supervisor. I have some college but no degree. I've done it by doing everything I can that the entrenched don't want to do, like working overnights, learning skills for in need positions, working weekends, and so on. If you need a job with "room to grow," work the off shift. Show them everyone who's been drinking coffee and working days is fucking off and you can do it better, faster, more completely, without the support they have. That's how you get ahead in industry/labor. It isn't anywhere I've been. You're right. Sometimes you have to move to another shop to move up in the world. 3 shops in those 8 years, for me. |
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If you have worked nights and know that it doesn't by itself stress you out then go for 2.
But for some the physiology of working nights really causes them grief. On a long time off, do you sleep in and stay up late, or get up bright n early? This is an indication of your particular diurnal clock. If you fight it consistently, it causes stress at least partly because you are always feeling that you are behind the curve. This is on top of any job-induced stress such as sucky customers or coworkers. This may be offset by doing what you love, but that only goes so far. If you are a day person, I'd only take 2 if I could jump to something else in a couple of years. Good for you to have a choice, though! |
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If you have worked nights and know that it doesn't by itself stress you out then go for 2. But for some the physiology of working nights really causes them grief. On a long time off, do you sleep in and stay up late, or get up bright n early? This is an indication of your particular diurnal clock. If you fight it consistently, it causes stress at least partly because you are always feeling that you are behind the curve. This is on top of any job-induced stress such as sucky customers or coworkers. This may be offset by doing what you love, but that only goes so far. If you are a day person, I'd only take 2 if I could jump to something else in a couple of years. Good for you to have a choice, though! I am a night person, If I can get away with it I prefer to stay up overnight and sleep during the day. It must be how I'm wired, My parents were the same way. They owned a Company and many times we would work through the night Even years after they retired they would be up late watching a movie etc. |