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Is it worth it to stay here as a package handler while working 2 jobs?
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<blockquote data-quote="drazzy93" data-source="post: 2509471" data-attributes="member: 64619"><p>The starting wage for UPS truck drivers is 16 dollars right? I literally met a new person today who had been working at my facility for over 33 freaking years, and he proudly told me that he had turned down every single opportunity to drive trucks. I guess I posted this hoping to get some responses from old-timer PT package handlers who could help give me some insight in why this dude turned down the FT driving job opportunities. </p><p></p><p>There are so many FT old-timers in my department who have actively turned down driving opportunities (small sorts), and there has to be something beyond benefits keeping them there. So, I thought about it a little bit at work doing the most boring, menial, and physical shift I had in weeks. According to this paper I got during my orientation I get a dollar raise every year. </p><p></p><p>I already got my first raise, and let's see... My coworker has been working there for 4 years, and still isn't driving. She says she still has a ways to go, and realistically in 5 years I will be making more than a truck driver's beginning wages. I don't know if I would even want to change positions at that point, but I'm just mainly interested in why the heck there are so many old-timers at my department who turned down opportunities to drive despite having seniority. </p><p></p><p>Someone, please give me a glimmer of hope. I don't HATE my job, but let's be real guys. This is one of the most menial and boring jobs out there. At my job in small sorts I basically just either sort, which is picking up a package, scanning it, putting it in the correct bin. Or I bag, which is vigilantly keeping an eye on the keypad until one of the keys light up, opening it, typing the code that is pasted across the back of the lid in the keypad, scrambling like hell to get all of the packages in the dumb forever bags before your sorter decides to press another button, walking to the end of your aisle, throwing the bag onto the belt. </p><p></p><p>Repeat for 5-6 hours. I love the people with whom I work, and I really don't want to believe that this is a dead-end job. I don't want to work at a job full of empty promises with supervisors constantly dangling carrots over me to get me to do work for them. I'm getting to the age right now where every single job I take is an investment. And a dead-end job is most certainly not a wise decision to make at my age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drazzy93, post: 2509471, member: 64619"] The starting wage for UPS truck drivers is 16 dollars right? I literally met a new person today who had been working at my facility for over 33 freaking years, and he proudly told me that he had turned down every single opportunity to drive trucks. I guess I posted this hoping to get some responses from old-timer PT package handlers who could help give me some insight in why this dude turned down the FT driving job opportunities. There are so many FT old-timers in my department who have actively turned down driving opportunities (small sorts), and there has to be something beyond benefits keeping them there. So, I thought about it a little bit at work doing the most boring, menial, and physical shift I had in weeks. According to this paper I got during my orientation I get a dollar raise every year. I already got my first raise, and let's see... My coworker has been working there for 4 years, and still isn't driving. She says she still has a ways to go, and realistically in 5 years I will be making more than a truck driver's beginning wages. I don't know if I would even want to change positions at that point, but I'm just mainly interested in why the heck there are so many old-timers at my department who turned down opportunities to drive despite having seniority. Someone, please give me a glimmer of hope. I don't HATE my job, but let's be real guys. This is one of the most menial and boring jobs out there. At my job in small sorts I basically just either sort, which is picking up a package, scanning it, putting it in the correct bin. Or I bag, which is vigilantly keeping an eye on the keypad until one of the keys light up, opening it, typing the code that is pasted across the back of the lid in the keypad, scrambling like hell to get all of the packages in the dumb forever bags before your sorter decides to press another button, walking to the end of your aisle, throwing the bag onto the belt. Repeat for 5-6 hours. I love the people with whom I work, and I really don't want to believe that this is a dead-end job. I don't want to work at a job full of empty promises with supervisors constantly dangling carrots over me to get me to do work for them. I'm getting to the age right now where every single job I take is an investment. And a dead-end job is most certainly not a wise decision to make at my age. [/QUOTE]
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