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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 661557" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This is a very big personal decision you are about to make.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Your use of the word career caught my eye.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">As a driver at UPS, you will never have a career, only a job (at least as the way a career is defined in college lore).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The key difference is if one has a career, they typically will work at several companies working in jobs that are related and that have a pay progression and probably a realization of additional responsibilities as they move from company to company.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The driver position at UPS is at the pinnacle of the progression chain and responsibility. No other company pays as much as the UPS driver and no other company has the level of responsibility as the UPS driver.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So if you decide to become a UPS driver your ability to progress in a career is very limited. You can aspire to become a feeder driver or to go into operations management which will have very limited mobility as a career path without a degree.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Just some things to mull over.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #231a0c"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">PS - If I were in your position, I would get my degree somehow. Later in your life, the ability to have choices will be important and read Dave Ramsey.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 661557, member: 18222"] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]This is a very big personal decision you are about to make.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]Your use of the word career caught my eye.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]As a driver at UPS, you will never have a career, only a job (at least as the way a career is defined in college lore).[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]The key difference is if one has a career, they typically will work at several companies working in jobs that are related and that have a pay progression and probably a realization of additional responsibilities as they move from company to company.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]The driver position at UPS is at the pinnacle of the progression chain and responsibility. No other company pays as much as the UPS driver and no other company has the level of responsibility as the UPS driver.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]So if you decide to become a UPS driver your ability to progress in a career is very limited. You can aspire to become a feeder driver or to go into operations management which will have very limited mobility as a career path without a degree.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]Just some things to mull over.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#231a0c][FONT=Verdana]PS - If I were in your position, I would get my degree somehow. Later in your life, the ability to have choices will be important and read Dave Ramsey.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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