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<blockquote data-quote="Duckwithapipboy" data-source="post: 2676896" data-attributes="member: 66249"><p>As a few have said here, it's very rare to just walk in as a driver and a pipe dream for a high school drop out who is only 19. You'll likely be a loader first off. So if you're serious, drop the chicken wing and use those legs to start walking. Before I started at UPS I was nearing 260 lbs and didn't have the upper strength for lifting 45+ lbs. waist high. Now I'm 180 chucking 120 lbs irregs onto the dock and loading at a 550 package per hour pace. <span style="font-size: 12px">(Ideally they want you at 360 at the end of the night, but don't complain much if you are over 250.)</span></p><p></p><p>Get a 20-30 barbell and start lifting. You don't need to be a hulky bastard, but just enough where your arm isn't looking like an attractive Jello bowl and you can handle a 40 lb. package on your own. After you start loading and get into the pace of it, you won't need to bother with the weight anymore. Every day is like going to the gym. Seriously, go start walking longer if you aren't already. Drivers have to be quick on their feet, but for a loader the only way we get to sit during our shift is if we take a dump. Minimum time is 3.5 hours. Longest I've been in so far was 11 hours in peak season.</p><p></p><p>Start drinking and carrying around a water bottle with you at all times. No soda, tea, coffee, Kool Aid, lemonade, 4 Loko, whiskey, etc. You'll be going through a lot of those working and if you start working in the dead heat of summer like I did, UPS wants it to become second nature to you so you don't collapse in a trailer due to heat stroke and dehydration. Not to mention it might help you to stop drinking all of that sugar. Once you get the nice pace and weight loss balance from the job you can go back and add those back in. You burn<strong> a lot</strong> of calories per day if you work hard enough.</p><p></p><p>You also need to shore up a thick skin against being roasted and harassed. If you let a couple of kids pester you into dropping out, you'll be a target for some of the people you'll be working with. You will be hazed, and you will need to make sure you don't hit a breaking point and quit. I was extremely hazed everyday for a few months until I got over it and just roll with it. If you do near that point, talk with your FT supervisor or HR, or even a shop steward if it comes from your own supervisor.</p><p></p><p>And seeing as how you are interested in comedy, here is a thread about a guy who thought he was being funny too until he reached that breaking point. For the sake of your future job, don't be like him.</p><p><a href="https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/i-was-termed-today.367586/" target="_blank">https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/i-was-termed-today.367586/</a></p><p>[<a href="https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/i-was-termed-today.367586/" target="_blank">I was termed today.]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duckwithapipboy, post: 2676896, member: 66249"] As a few have said here, it's very rare to just walk in as a driver and a pipe dream for a high school drop out who is only 19. You'll likely be a loader first off. So if you're serious, drop the chicken wing and use those legs to start walking. Before I started at UPS I was nearing 260 lbs and didn't have the upper strength for lifting 45+ lbs. waist high. Now I'm 180 chucking 120 lbs irregs onto the dock and loading at a 550 package per hour pace. [SIZE=3](Ideally they want you at 360 at the end of the night, but don't complain much if you are over 250.)[/SIZE] Get a 20-30 barbell and start lifting. You don't need to be a hulky bastard, but just enough where your arm isn't looking like an attractive Jello bowl and you can handle a 40 lb. package on your own. After you start loading and get into the pace of it, you won't need to bother with the weight anymore. Every day is like going to the gym. Seriously, go start walking longer if you aren't already. Drivers have to be quick on their feet, but for a loader the only way we get to sit during our shift is if we take a dump. Minimum time is 3.5 hours. Longest I've been in so far was 11 hours in peak season. Start drinking and carrying around a water bottle with you at all times. No soda, tea, coffee, Kool Aid, lemonade, 4 Loko, whiskey, etc. You'll be going through a lot of those working and if you start working in the dead heat of summer like I did, UPS wants it to become second nature to you so you don't collapse in a trailer due to heat stroke and dehydration. Not to mention it might help you to stop drinking all of that sugar. Once you get the nice pace and weight loss balance from the job you can go back and add those back in. You burn[B] a lot[/B] of calories per day if you work hard enough. You also need to shore up a thick skin against being roasted and harassed. If you let a couple of kids pester you into dropping out, you'll be a target for some of the people you'll be working with. You will be hazed, and you will need to make sure you don't hit a breaking point and quit. I was extremely hazed everyday for a few months until I got over it and just roll with it. If you do near that point, talk with your FT supervisor or HR, or even a shop steward if it comes from your own supervisor. And seeing as how you are interested in comedy, here is a thread about a guy who thought he was being funny too until he reached that breaking point. For the sake of your future job, don't be like him. [URL='https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/i-was-termed-today.367586/'][/URL] [[URL='https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/i-was-termed-today.367586/']I was termed today.][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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