To those who say part time work is not meant to be enough to live off of...
I started working at UPS in 1995 at the ripe old age of 18. I worked on the night sort because I was a night person. Four years later I met my girlfriend who worked the shift before me and extended onto my shift every night. Soon I moved out of my parents place and into hers. I switched to the Twi sort and got serious about school and enrolled fulltime to obtain my bachelors degree in CS and Mathematics graduating with a 3.92 GPA. That was in 2004. Since then, people have asked when I am going to do something with it, and I reply, "Why?"
I make $20.57 an hour. My girlfriend makes over $17 (she got screwed and started 2 months after 97 strike). We have a child together now so she works during the day (12:30-5:15) and I go in for the Twi shift and usually work 2 hours overtime a day. Maybe it is my hub, but overtime has never been an issue, and if there isn't OT work (never happens), I have the option of extending onto the Night Sort (I hate the hour break, so never bother). So pretty much I make what a combo worker makes in 7 hours instead of 9.
I love the fact that neither of us work full time. It allows us to raise our child ourselves instead of a daycare and leaves time for all my various hobbies. If I don't feel like working 7 hours, no problem, I go home after 5.
I am not sure why so many of you criticize one job part-timers. In my case, it is more than viable and makes working full time nonsensical.
Ryan / Nitelite
I started working at UPS in 1995 at the ripe old age of 18. I worked on the night sort because I was a night person. Four years later I met my girlfriend who worked the shift before me and extended onto my shift every night. Soon I moved out of my parents place and into hers. I switched to the Twi sort and got serious about school and enrolled fulltime to obtain my bachelors degree in CS and Mathematics graduating with a 3.92 GPA. That was in 2004. Since then, people have asked when I am going to do something with it, and I reply, "Why?"
I make $20.57 an hour. My girlfriend makes over $17 (she got screwed and started 2 months after 97 strike). We have a child together now so she works during the day (12:30-5:15) and I go in for the Twi shift and usually work 2 hours overtime a day. Maybe it is my hub, but overtime has never been an issue, and if there isn't OT work (never happens), I have the option of extending onto the Night Sort (I hate the hour break, so never bother). So pretty much I make what a combo worker makes in 7 hours instead of 9.
I love the fact that neither of us work full time. It allows us to raise our child ourselves instead of a daycare and leaves time for all my various hobbies. If I don't feel like working 7 hours, no problem, I go home after 5.
I am not sure why so many of you criticize one job part-timers. In my case, it is more than viable and makes working full time nonsensical.
Ryan / Nitelite