Job scenario
 

I've been working at the same lax job for over 2 years now, the job is sweet obviously because I can post on here, listen to music, sit in the air conditioning and the work itself requires almost no thought at all. I just got a call from a local warehouse distribution center that would start me off about $6 MORE an hour and the shifts are 3 days a week 12 hours a shift. Yep, 4 days off! I'm thinking I can keep my current job and drop the hours in half in addition to taking this new job, potentially. I have an interview at 2pm tomorrow and am thinking of an excuse to get off early, this should be fun.

Of course neither of these are really long-term .. that I know of.

I need some advice from the experts.

I'd say keep your current job, try the new job, and if you like the new job, decide if you want to work both, or if you only want to work the new job.

That's exactly what i'm going to do. Since my current job is very, very flexible I can basically setup my own schedule as long as it's not something ridiculous. I'm super excited to potentially be making some extra money here shortly, but I still need to do pretty well on the interview. Oh well, hopefully things will turn out the way that I want it to. We'll see.

Things will likely turn out however they're supposed to turn out, D3v. Go with the flow :P

Oh and the +additional money (they said) they would start me out around 16.50/hr. That's pretty damn good money for only needing a damn high school diploma.

I can say with certainty I'd like a job that pays that well that I only have to work 3 days a week. I'd take that over my desk job any day.

AB-SO-FUCKING-LUTELY.

I have a buddy that has been working there for almost 6 months or so, hence I might be able to get a good word in. It's funny because the middle siblign in our family already went and had an interview like a week or so ago, and now i'm up (he applied a week before I did). We'll see what's up.

I'll probably update tomorrow and see how it went. I already know what they're going to be asking me down to the specifics, and how long it will take before they inform me if I have the position or not.

Any update? How did the interview go? What does the job entail, does it involve a lot of physical labour?

I'm moving to a 4 day work week soon. Front-loading with 12 hour days to make up the hours. Woot.

Hell yeah, that's whasssuppp.

Okay, well I went to the interview yesterday afternoon. The interview itself only took about five minutes. I watched one of those pre-orientation videos of the basic job outline and what the job entails. There are only two weekend shifts available at this time. Friday/Saturday/Sunday from either 4am-4pm or 5am-5pm (different sorting hours). The woman interviewing told me basically you come in at that time and leave whenever your section finishes their work. The job will start me off at 16.15 if I get the job and I will find out by next week (next wednesday) if I have it or not.

I'm starting to already have second thoughts though. I would have almost no life for the rest of this summer and possibly even longer, cutting out fri/sat/sun that is. I'm still going to wait and see if they hire me, we'll see. If I don't get it it's w/e because I still have a great job ATM in which I can still position myself for more advancements while i'm still in school.

You should be amassing money right now while you can. It's hard for a lot of kids to even find jobs.

I skipped everything in this thread to read Grav's witty remarks. He let me down. :(

Do you have to take a piss test? I know it varies with certain companies. Also, you may not want to do 12 straight hours of physical labor. No matter how fit and strong you are, your body still isn't used to the workload and will need time to adjust.

Ain't that the fucking truth. I've been job searching for 2 months now.. although I think I finally caught a break. I go in for my 2nd interview tomorrow and unless I make a complete ass of myself I'm 95% sure I'll get the job.

Yes, I would have to eliminate smoking out of my daily routine. The 12hour thing isn't too scary to me. They get 1 hour lunch breaks and 2 15 minute breaks, so that's fine. It's not like you're going to die. The labor part of it includes walking around with a motorized palet jack and filling an order onto the palet and walking it to either a truck or another area, dropping it off, and starting over somewhere else.