How much more $ would it take you to go to shift work? I’ve got a pretty nice job offer but it requires shift work and I’m currently steady daylight, 8-5 airtight, weekends off.
Job pays 20% more with profit sharing bonus…damn this decision is killing me.
Is 20% worth shifts?
i think it would depend on the shift… if it is midnight do they pay shift differential or is it just a 20 increase over all…
me?
i work 4pm-11pm most days, so I wouldn’t care.
If I was offered 8-5 every weekday, with nights and weekends off, at 20% less than what I make now, I’d take it.
A previous job I had it was a 10% bonus to work nights. It was ok for a little bit, in fact it was the most money I ever had since I never went any where or did anything.
take the 20% you’re old and don’t do anything anyway 
haha… but seriously… take the 20 and work at it for a good 6 months and see how it plays out… can’t really tell if it’ll be good or bad… i’d probably go for it…
It’s 20% more, across the board, than I’m currently making. The work itself isn’t hard, as long as you don’t mind the hours. Which are 5 daylights, two off. 5 of 2nd, 2 off. 5 midnights, 2 off. There’s alot of career oppurtunity, or so they claim. I have reasons to believe this to be true. Corporate is in Wheeling WV and Youngstown,OH. dunno if I wanna go there but I guess you cross that bridge when you get there. This job is closer but still an hour away. It’s really tempting. Current job is safe, easy and comfortable, but suckatcular for career growth. I’m not ready to be a bump on a log just yet.
Depends on what you do for a living and whether it’s an outside or inside location.
For what I do now (sit inside at a comp all day), a second shift would be OK.
For the previous job (work in a very drafty and poorly heated shop environment), the late shift kinda sucked because it got colder at night.
Do you have children? Family? Wife?
If you are all by your lonesome, then I’d say go for it…
I’m married, no chilluns.
It’s the oppurtunity that makes it so tempting. That and it’s heavy industry, which is very cool in a testicle swingin’ sort of way.
But then again, there’s more to life than money. I do like my weekends, my daylight job.
This one is freakin’ tough for me…
To distill it, I think it’s oppurtunity knocking that makes it such a draw. I don’t want to work shifts given the choice ,but oppurtunity is good.
If I pass on this, I need to step up and make my own oppurtunity. Grad school, career councilling, something.
career counseling??? :nuts:
I know, just saying I can’t sit around thinking “coulda shoulda woulda”, got to go make something happen if I pass on this.
I was a shift supervisor when I lived in Texas. We worked 7 (am or pm) to 7 (pm or am) in 12 hour shifts. After doing the rotation for a while, I found that the work wasn’t worth it. I had to get to work at least 1 hour early to assign equipment, write up my shift plan, and ride the job with the previous shift’s supervisor. I also had to stay later than my crew to fill out paperwork. My shift turned into 14+ hours.
Some of the things I didn’t like:
In the end, I wouldn’t work shift-work again unless they paid me $40-50/hour. The hassle just wasn’t worth it to me.
Yeah, that’s what I fear. Add to that I’m a juvenile diabetic, could be a tough road. I’d figure that angle out as far as control goes, but on top of feeling like shit, I’d be even more shitswaggled.
20% of $20K per year is nothing, 20% of $80K is a lot. Only you can decide if the move is worth it.
I won’t give up my weekends because I have kids, but your situation may be different.
good luck in your choice
yeah but 20% more than what you’re making is 20% more.
two or three years ago i would of said what i’m making now is ‘a lot’ … but now i consider it ‘enough to get by’… so it’s all relative.
the question is… is right now a point in your life where you can change your entire schedule? if the wifey is on board and you don’t think it’ll kill you… do it.
20% would be nice and working for a bigger / better company with room for advancement cannot be argued with!
If you have diabetes, I’m telling you from watching it personally, shift work is not for you. I have two supervisors that have it and it sucks. The one just go an insulin pump so its working a bit better, the other one just got diagnosed with it and is having troubles adapting.
I work rotational shift work, which usually goes weekday day light, Weekend daylight, Weekday night turn, weekend night turns. We work “USUALLY” two 12s two 8s. but there is a schudle which is two 16s and one 8 (which I get next scedule.
Each schedule is 4 weeks long. so every for weeks you change. So basically you work 8 weeks of overnight, and 8 weeks of daylights. Some times that is tweaked depending on needs since we are open 24/7 and have to have minimum staffing.
There is always a shit load of OT availible so currently I make more than my supervisors. I am going to clear 500 hours of OT this year.
which is why a flat tax would never work as well.
I guess look at it as its 20% more than what you had before and if its a great opportunity go for it. But as a diabetic/Insulin Resistant human being I am saying Good luck because I work a normal 8-5 and I still get the shit kicked out of me every once in a while. Eating every 3 hours on a shift job I don’t think will go over very well… Whatever way you decide Good luck!