So i have a job offer on the table. It's paying $9/hr with a $50/week attendance bonus. It's full time with chances for overtime....13.50/hr every hour ot.
Here is the but...Its an hour drive away so basically that $50 attendance bonus would be diesel money and nothing but.
So would yall take it, or pass for something closer.
Take the job. Then find out if there are others in your area that you might be able to carpool with. Good luck!
Take the job but continue to look for something closer or more money.
At the end of the day you have to workout whether what you would be earning with this job minus desil will it be more than what your making now, if so take the job its better doing something than nothing.
Emily.T xx
Take the job. It is far easier to job hunt while employed with the comfort of a check coming in than to try and do it with no certainy of income in the future. That and staying employed actually makes it easier to be hired as you definitely want the least amount of unemployed time in your resume as possible.
Take the job, do well at it. I have my cushy government job not because I have any fancy degree(I don't) but because I was helpful to a government official that was a customer at my menial retail job. He snatched me out of there, and I haven't looked back.
take it and then flip it
Perhaps try public transit instead of gas guzzling diesel?
This thread is just chock full o'good advice.
Take it all, and the job. Do well in your endeavors.
And, congratulations!
:)
Quote from: Willow on November 17, 2013, 11:26:52 PM
Perhaps try public transit instead of gas guzzling diesel?
Dont have public transportation in my little city.
Btw i realized i made a booboo......it's only paying 8.50/hr not 9
In this economy?
I would take it, no question. They are basically paying for you to drive out there, even though they might not know it. If you look at it only as a bonus, you really arent paying anything for gas at all. Just my opinion.
Quote from: kariann330 on November 17, 2013, 11:38:20 PM
Btw i realized i made a booboo......it's only paying 8.50/hr not 9
if you are not employed at the moment then I'd take it. Is it good pay? Not really but it is work with potential for overtime something that is becoming a very rationed commodity nowadays. Further more how long is the commute? Once upon a time I had to drive more than an hour for work and received no per diam for showing up. Its all on you and good luck either way maybe you could do motel rental to cover the stress of travel and wear and tear on vehicle just another idea.
Quote from: kariann330 on November 17, 2013, 11:36:40 PMDont have public transportation in my little city.
This is unfortunate.
Quote from: ThatTallGirl on November 18, 2013, 12:14:11 AMThey are basically paying for you to drive out there, even though they might not know it. If you look at it only as a bonus, you really arent paying anything for gas at all. Just my opinion.
Makes it sound like a pretty good gig when you look at it that way.
It's hard to give advice without knowing your personal circumstances, industry, educational background and skill level. And I hate to be a naysayer, but this sounds like a classic trap to me.
At full-time, plus an hour each direction, you're looking at 10.5 hours every day (half an hour added for lunch). Throw in overtime and you could be committed to 12-hour days before you know it. While it's true that it's easier to find a job when you have a job, you won't have much energy to look if that's your schedule. And if you have to miss half a day in order to interview somewhere else, there goes your attendance bonus.
So, be sure to do your math. Without the details, I can only estimate for you. But here goes: Since it's an hour's drive, let's say it's 60 miles each direction. That's 600 miles per week. Let's say that your car is average, meaning somewhere around 22 effective miles per gallon. That's about 27 gallons (two tank-fulls) per week. At $3.50 per gallon (I don't know how diesel differs, and regional prices vary), that's $95 per week, or $4750 over a 50-week year (assuming you get a couple of weeks off, and fuel prices remain more-or-less steady).
It's also important to remember that commuting costs a lot more than just gas. Driving that much each day, you have to expect your auto expenses to spike. Unless your car is less than two years old, budget at least a couple thousand dollars in routine maintenance and repairs per year. (You might do better than this, but you're safer to assume the worst and hope for the best.)
Suddenly $17,680 ($8.50 per hour annualized) looks more like $10,930 (or $5.25 per hour). Perfect attendance would add back $2500, and an average of 5 hours per week of overtime grosses $3188 (time-and-a-half being $12.75), making it $16,618 altogether ($7.98 per hour). But that is all BEFORE taxes. Your effective take-home after expenses in the best possible circumstances would be around $250 per week. More realistically, it looks like $175 to $200. There are very few places where that represents a living wage (maybe your situation is one of those).
With all that in mind, here are some things to carefully consider before giving up your search and accepting this:
- Could you really live on that amount? (Be honest with yourself. Look at your actual expenses as they are right now.)
- Could you move closer to it? (Saves all those transportation costs.)
- How are the benefits? (Full medical is very valuable and changes the calculations substantially.)
- Do the benefits (if there are any) cover trans-related expenses? (You don't need to ask that question. Just find out who the provider is and do some online research.)
- Is there potential for promotion within the company?
- If it is to be a stop-gap, what is your exit strategy?
- How long are you willing to give it before moving on?
And maybe most importantly...
- Is the work fulfilling? (If you love it, and can live on the salary, the finances are not nearly as important.)
Having said all of that, if you are young and just starting out, and this is an entry-level position with a good company, and you can survive reasonably well on that salary, and it includes good benefits, then maybe it will work long-term. I started that way myself, taking a $3.75 per hour job in 1983, and working my way to a $75K management career over the course of a decade. Then I realized that I hated the work and bailed. But for many people, eventually making the best of it is easier than trying to make it better, and bailing is not an option. Inertia sets in, as does loss aversion and the fallacy of sunk cost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs).
My experience has been that short-term turns to long-term before you know it. Suddenly you've been there for ten years and you have no prospects for other employment and are truly stuck for a long time making a very low wage with long hours. And unless the work is fulfilling and offers reasonable compensation, you might be better off to continue looking. Right now the economy is making more jobs than it has since 2008.
You may feel desperate, but try not to make this decision out of desperation. And if you do take it, be sure to aggressively be on the lookout for ways to improve it, either by moving up within that company, or by moving on.
Don't sell yourself short!
Lora
take it . You can always quit the next day. A job is a job try it out see if it's manageable. I lost my job awhile ago. The pay was alright ,but not great. It took me an hour and a have to get to because I didn't have a car.
I agree with translora.
But for me, there is no way in hell I would commute for two hours a day for 850 an hour. Unless you really love that job I'd pass it up. Soooo much wear on the car and so much time soaked up just driving there makes it not worth it imo
Good luck
Well to those who said hold out for something closer.....thank you i found two jobs today, also as a machine operator, both full time and both paying $10/hr....also a lot closer to me....and one of them gives me a discount on brakes.
congratulations
Quote from: Willow on November 17, 2013, 11:26:52 PM
Perhaps try public transit instead of gas guzzling diesel?
Gas guzzling diesel? That made me smile. :)
Congrats! :)
that's awesome Karianne!
Congratulations
Definitely take it. You may be able to afford a cheaper means of transport.
Quote from: Ms. OBrien CVT on November 18, 2013, 07:19:10 PM
Definitely take it. You may be able to afford a cheaper means of transport.
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO I love my 3500....I put so much work into her.....KC high lights, brush guard, custom rear bumper, 8 inches of suspension lift, 2 inches of body lift, 38in Super Swampers, 20in rims, quad 8 inch smoke stacks and finish it off with a mini max tuner that can go from a smoke tune to smokeless in the push of a button.
Quote from: kariann330 on November 17, 2013, 09:34:47 PM
So i have a job offer on the table. It's paying $9/hr with a $50/week attendance bonus. It's full time with chances for overtime....13.50/hr every hour ot.
Here is the but...Its an hour drive away so basically that $50 attendance bonus would be diesel money and nothing but.
So would yall take it, or pass for something closer.
Take it, girl. It's easier to find another job when you have one :)
Great news. Congrats! (Sounds like auto maintenance would have been the least of your concerns after all...)
Lora
Quote from: translora on November 18, 2013, 10:42:49 PM
Great news. Congrats! (Sounds like auto maintenance would have been the least of your concerns after all...)
Lora
Nope if anything breaks on Reba i can usually fix it.....i have had to fix parts of my steering and suspension at least 50 times cuz of muddin.
It would be wise to get a second vehicle as a daily considering fuel economy and the mods done. Thats what I do its also good for when the toy is broke or if you need to put it on hold for other priorities.