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Absolem0918
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job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it...
#19293786 - 12/18/13 03:18 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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im a working man. its all i do. i do it for my 2 kids.
now heres my dilemma... ive been offered a 14.50 dollar an hour job doing the easiest job ever, and all i do is save people money. i dont sell shit. and every person i help, i get $35 extra per person. the problem is the schedule... 9am - 9pm. 6 days a week.....
so i ask you, would you do it?
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19293791 - 12/18/13 03:20 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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If it doesn't take away father time hell ya worse case you hate it and go on with life
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: fatflash]
#19293793 - 12/18/13 03:22 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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6 twelve hour days? That's fucking criminal, you might as well move in to your office.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: fatflash]
#19293795 - 12/18/13 03:22 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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9am-9pm certainly sounds like it'll be taking away father time for him and his kids. I used to work in a corporate office working late hours and I wasn't able to make it home until after my kid was already asleep 5 days out of the week. I really wish I had been able to spend more time with her but now I'm self employed so that's no longer an issue. Is there absolutely no way they can be more flexible with those work hours? Perhaps if you worked there for a short while they might be able to budge a little?
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Absolem0918
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: fatflash]
#19293801 - 12/18/13 03:25 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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fatflash said: If it doesn't take away father time hell ya worse case you hate it and go on with life
but it would, thats my biggest issue. right now i have shared custody with my sons bitch mother. she lives 100 miles away and we do 1 week with her and one week with me. my daughter lives with me and im with her mother (but shit that might not last long). so if i take this job, other then when i would see him the first hour of the morning, i would see my boy every 2 weeks on sunday. thats it.
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Absolem0918
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: SuperD]
#19293804 - 12/18/13 03:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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SuperD said: 9am-9pm certainly sounds like it'll be taking away father time for him and his kids. I used to work in a corporate office working late hours and I wasn't able to make it home until after my kid was already asleep 5 days out of the week. I really wish I had been able to spend more time with her but now I'm self employed so that's no longer an issue. Is there absolutely no way they can be more flexible with those work hours? Perhaps if you worked there for a short while they might be able to budge a little?
the only flexibility they will do is if your in school.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19293814 - 12/18/13 03:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Do what's best for your kids.
I wish my parents would have spent more time with me than working to buy me shit.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19293815 - 12/18/13 03:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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6 12 hour days? I wouldn't do it, not for very long at least.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: volcomstoner]
#19293863 - 12/18/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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You're young. A little extra sweat won't hurt ya' and the money is great. Buy your ex and kid more nice things, keep up child support, then modify those weekend visits so maybe you can do more with the kid when you are available.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: volcomstoner]
#19293874 - 12/18/13 03:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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man i feel like they are exterminating white men.
minorities and women get all the preference.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19293907 - 12/18/13 03:52 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Absolem, this seems like a really challenging decision to make and I really hope you end up choosing the option that will make you happy. Regret is a bitch...
Working 12 hour shifts 6 times a week is no laughing matter. In fact, I think that's REALLY dangerous for your health and mental well-being. I'd recommend strongly against it, it's just too much to put up with physically.
But not only will it make you frustrated and potentially cause you to lose your sanity, you would also be completely isolated from your children's lives. You would never have the time or energy to play with them, go to their soccer games, or even see them for that matter. I understand that you would have a lot more money to spoil them with and they'd be ecstatic about it but you would regret it in the long run. Simply keeping your kids happy with materialism will completely weaken the special father-child bond and they'll probably end up hating you when they're teens.
You would also completely miss out on fatherhood. I have no desire to be a dad but from what I hear, playing sports with your kid, watching him/her learn to ride a bike, and so forth are incredibly amazing feelings. But who knows, maybe it's cognitive dissonance!
tl;dr
DON'T COME HOME TO YOUR KIDS LIKE THIS:
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19293933 - 12/18/13 04:01 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Do it for half a year and get fired for making a bunch of mistakes soon after, collect unemployment for 6 months (you will get a lot from UI.)
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: fapjack]
#19293979 - 12/18/13 04:10 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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fapjack said: Do it for half a year and get fired for making a bunch of mistakes soon after, collect unemployment for 6 months (you will get a lot from UI.)
I agree, if you do, don't do it for very long. The turnover rate is probably very high in that company anyway.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Crystal G]
#19294131 - 12/18/13 04:40 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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my dad does something close to that but not on the weekend and he sure as shit makes more then 40000 a year
just get a job managing a miccy dee's or something
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badchad
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19294133 - 12/18/13 04:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Problem is that you mentioned a huge range in pay.
With 52 weeks a year, you're making either 52k or 104k.
Big difference.
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Absolem0918
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Crystal G]
#19294138 - 12/18/13 04:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Crystal G said:
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fapjack said: Do it for half a year and get fired for making a bunch of mistakes soon after, collect unemployment for 6 months (you will get a lot from UI.)
I agree, if you do, don't do it for very long. The turnover rate is probably very high in that company anyway.
im thinking this. and im not doind "to but my kids more stuff". i live in a shitty little apartment attatched to the basement of my parents house. i have a car thats about to blow the fuck up. i want a nice house for them to grow up in and decent transportation for us. and a lil saved up college money would be nice.
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Absolem0918
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: badchad]
#19294142 - 12/18/13 04:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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badchad said: Problem is that you mentioned a huge range in pay.
With 52 weeks a year, you're making either 52k or 104k.
Big difference.
52k is twice as much as ive ever been able to make in my life... and all i do is work and work and work...
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19294158 - 12/18/13 04:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd work till I could buy something nice. Like a plot of land or a car. Then if you're spent start looking for a new line of work.
I have done 60hour weeks before and they suck. You will really see free time slip away. And your kids take that hit.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19294160 - 12/18/13 04:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Absolem0918 said:
52k is twice as much as ive ever been able to make in my life... and all i do is work and work and work...
After your first 72 hour week, you might not think its quite as much.
On the other hand, you can probably stick out 104k for a while.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: badchad]
#19294167 - 12/18/13 04:50 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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badchad said: Problem is that you mentioned a huge range in pay.
With 52 weeks a year, you're making either 52k or 104k.
Big difference.
Take away taxes from it, and it's either going to be around 30k or 75k.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19294184 - 12/18/13 04:55 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Absolem0918 said:
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badchad said: Problem is that you mentioned a huge range in pay.
With 52 weeks a year, you're making either 52k or 104k.
Big difference.
52k is twice as much as ive ever been able to make in my life... and all i do is work and work and work...
tell ur kids to get good grades and stay out of trouble. tell them to go to school for IT or engineering (stay out of the fucking environment unless u want to sell ur soul to the devil). if you can co-sign loans get them to go to medical school. otherwise, just keep it patched up til they get old enough to go out on their own. nintendo/xbox and a warm house goes a long way when u don't care about getting laid, traveling or doing drugs.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Crystal G]
#19294191 - 12/18/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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52k is terrible money for that many hours.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Crystal G]
#19294200 - 12/18/13 05:00 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you really need the money, or if you have debts/mortgage to pay off then definately.
I would do it for a while. A person can put up with anything if the know there will be an end to it.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19294235 - 12/18/13 05:09 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Absolem0918 said:
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SuperD said: 9am-9pm certainly sounds like it'll be taking away father time for him and his kids. I used to work in a corporate office working late hours and I wasn't able to make it home until after my kid was already asleep 5 days out of the week. I really wish I had been able to spend more time with her but now I'm self employed so that's no longer an issue. Is there absolutely no way they can be more flexible with those work hours? Perhaps if you worked there for a short while they might be able to budge a little?
the only flexibility they will do is if your in school.
Well, what a coincidence. You just became a part time student.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: SuperD]
#19294313 - 12/18/13 05:28 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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my answer is fuck no.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Absolem0918]
#19294718 - 12/18/13 06:59 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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For no more than 1 month.
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Absolem0918
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Repertoire89]
#19297086 - 12/19/13 08:41 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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orientation is tomorrow, i think im going to try it for a few weeks and see how i like it.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Lynnch] 2
#19297106 - 12/19/13 08:51 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Lynnch said: 6 twelve hour days? That's fucking criminal, you might as well move in to your office.
For that many hours you should be selfemployed.
Life isnt meant for tomorrow, its for TODAY.
Your kids will only grow up once. Know what matters most to them? Not whether you were poor as a shithouse rat, because most people are but WAS DADDY THERE FOR ME. If you weren't, no expensive presnts can fill that void. Be there for them.
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Re: job opportunity: $1,000 - $2,000 a WEEK. dont think ill take it... [Re: Asante]
#19297897 - 12/19/13 12:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Self-employment is a lot more achievable if you have some start-up capital though. I'd say do it for a few months and save up some money, while keeping an eye out for less demanding work. Seems like a poor strategy on the employer's part to hire only people who will work such a crazy schedule though.
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