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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 3788692" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>I had a conversation with a locomotive engineer last year and he said much the same thing. The money was good, but the trade off consisting of sleep deprivation and often having to be awake during all the dark hours was becoming too much. It's not a great job when the end result is keeping you from having any life much less a healthy one.</p><p></p><p>I guess with that in mind, I'd be hesitant to declare driving for UPS as a better long term career move since the company seems bent on creating as much "flex" scheduling and route area shifting as it can into the future. 6 or 7 years ago, a long day was 8am to a little after 8pm in the month of December. Now, it's 9am to often past 9pm just in the summer and 1030pm was literally every single night last peak season and that gets extremely draining in bad weather. It's demanding enough even making the full scale wage. If I were a new hire making nowhere near that for years on end, I can't say I'd tolerate the working conditions that have persisted these last 5 years. If you're willing to start over making far less money and even willing to relocate in the process, then you might well have choices that could be far more personally fulfilling than UPS would ever be. My advice would be after having to put up with an employer that could care less about you or the lousy work environment they stuck you with, then if you are going to leave then move on to something you have a good idea you will derive a sense of personal satisfaction while doing - whatever and wherever that might be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 3788692, member: 4550"] I had a conversation with a locomotive engineer last year and he said much the same thing. The money was good, but the trade off consisting of sleep deprivation and often having to be awake during all the dark hours was becoming too much. It's not a great job when the end result is keeping you from having any life much less a healthy one. I guess with that in mind, I'd be hesitant to declare driving for UPS as a better long term career move since the company seems bent on creating as much "flex" scheduling and route area shifting as it can into the future. 6 or 7 years ago, a long day was 8am to a little after 8pm in the month of December. Now, it's 9am to often past 9pm just in the summer and 1030pm was literally every single night last peak season and that gets extremely draining in bad weather. It's demanding enough even making the full scale wage. If I were a new hire making nowhere near that for years on end, I can't say I'd tolerate the working conditions that have persisted these last 5 years. If you're willing to start over making far less money and even willing to relocate in the process, then you might well have choices that could be far more personally fulfilling than UPS would ever be. My advice would be after having to put up with an employer that could care less about you or the lousy work environment they stuck you with, then if you are going to leave then move on to something you have a good idea you will derive a sense of personal satisfaction while doing - whatever and wherever that might be. [/QUOTE]
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