car dept FTW. and congrats on your dispatching job. i concidered putting in for it, but going a different route right now. how long will you be down at school? ATL? im heading down for a week in March for a class.
nothing wrong with railroad jobs. pay is good, reliable(selkirk is one of the biggest yards in the country itll be there forever), good benifits. im happy enough that ill never leave.
i dont make $10,000 a week like love4boost but i do pretty good.
KBB- we just had a guy move from VT to work with us. hired on in the car dept. he worked for some private railroad up there or something.
If its the RR around my area that he came from I can understand why. They offered me a job doing the same thing I am now for $16/hr. Pack it in your ass.
Are you a car knocker for CSX?
401K is BS.
I’m lowering my contribution. I’ve been putting money into it…got like 35k in there and I went to withdraw some of it (I’m only 24 - so to me it’s hardly a big deal being that I have 40+ more years to work) to use for my wedding at the end of summer and they told me I have two options:
Take a loan from my account (which will cut into my take home pay as it gets paid from each of your checks)
Do a hardship withdrawal.
Problem is…hardship is like eviction, medical bills, etc. Not weddings.
It’s MY F’IN MONEY + the match that I have EARNED from my company for working there so many years! WTF does the IRS have to do with what is sitting in my 401k? I’ll gladly take it out and pay the necessary taxes on it so they get their ‘uncle sam cut’ but the rest of it should be able to be used by me whenever, or however, I damn want.
/rant
Thats one thing I will NEVER do is borrow from my 401K. Unless it was life or death.