Dick, lol.
Age and current time with your employer?
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We're 36 and 48 also, more 3 and 4 days on/off in a row. Every 5 weeks we get an 8 day break by working mon-thurs and don't go back til the next friday night. I like to take those next 4 nights off and have a 2 week break by just taking 40 hours vacation. Like you said, I could never work a mon-fri 9-5 job again.
The power industry is all over northern California.
Also planning and scheduling means different things depending on who you work for.
At some places a planner scheduler helps facilitate maintenance outages and tracks the associated budget. Others they do the same but in more of overall project role for things not related to the actual power plants.
Can you be more specific as to what you're looking to do?
This is the same shift I work. Like you, 12hrs on a concrete floor in a non climate controlled plant. I had some coworkers leave and start a job at local power plant. The pay was a little more and the benefits are also better. But a few months of working that Dupont 24/7 schedule they was begging to come back. One made it back already, two are waiting for a job opening to come back. The two waiting are about to lose their minds working that shift.
Crazy.
Here we have some new hires that don't last a day. I've also worked up on the intake side where we load and unload cream and milk from tankers. Climbing trucks full of ice and snow. Or dealing with the hot summers.
This place definitely isn't for everyone. It's like a revolving door, so many people come and go.
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I thought you were getting your college degree and then enrolling in the police academy.
One huge benefit to working for the Texas Legislature. All of the time below counts towards retirement. The annual leave also gets paid out (on top of counting towards retirement). I accrue 8 hours of sick and 15 hours of annual leave per month. So I currently have 56 weeks of time off 
Haha, what power company do you work for and do they cover Northern California?
I’m more specialized in asset maintenance planning and this covers both project level planned work and creating work orders with defined work plans. 15 years generator technician and 6 years planning. I’m a super user for SAP and IBM Maximo.
PG&E is my main target but I fear nepotism is gatekeeping me from making it to interview!
in a sense yeah, honestly I was used to staying up to 2, 3, 4 am in my late teens through my 20's. The bigger adjustment was going to bed at 9:30am after getting off shift.
I took the position because someone on third shift wanted to move back to first due to scheduling conflicts with his military duties. Originally it was supposed to be temporary but I liked it so much, I've been on this shift since the summer of 2021. No more 3 meetings a day, can be left alone to just do my job at night.
45 years old. 14 years in my field, just over 2 years at the current job. Crazy busy the last two years and only getting busier. Hip/knee surgeon. I plan on doing it until it’s physically difficult to do the surgery.
35 years old. I’m coming up on 2 years with my current employer. Was at my first company for 12 years. I was in college before that.
34yo
9 years as a LEO. Same department in center Ohio.
Loved loved loved the job the first 5 years. Then society began to dislike us. Then the department and city prosecutors created massive policy changes. Literally can't do anything without violating some policy.
Riots happened, prosecutors head hunting for LEOs, more policy's.
COVID- all stop of any police work.
Now there is no direction and no one with more than 5 years is doing anything. You can barley take anyone to jail now. All summons.
Hiring standards are in the toilet bc no one wants to be a cop, so we are hiring subpar employees.
Only reason I stay is because I have a family, make great money, take tons of time off and hang with my family.
Go back nine years and I'd do something different. But I'm 3rd generation LEO and wanted it since I was a kid.
9 years as a LEO. Same department in center Ohio.
Loved loved loved the job the first 5 years. Then society began to dislike us. Then the department and city prosecutors created massive policy changes. Literally can't do anything without violating some policy.
Riots happened, prosecutors head hunting for LEOs, more policy's.
COVID- all stop of any police work.
Now there is no direction and no one with more than 5 years is doing anything. You can barley take anyone to jail now. All summons.
Hiring standards are in the toilet bc no one wants to be a cop, so we are hiring subpar employees.
Only reason I stay is because I have a family, make great money, take tons of time off and hang with my family.
Go back nine years and I'd do something different. But I'm 3rd generation LEO and wanted it since I was a kid.
39 years old. 22 years with the same employer.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
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32 been with my local for 7 and a half years now. Sucks last couple years It used to be so easy to get your hours and work was plentiful not anymore.
36 in April, been at my Toyota dealer for almost 19 years( June 15th is my anniversary). It has its ups and downs, but overall I’ve been happy there. We have been slammed with work since 2020 that we can’t keep up, and we have maybe 15 guys flat rate including me, and the express side doing basics. Guess the fact that the car market was so high, people couldn’t afford new cars so they have been fixing the old ones, which I’m totally cool with haha
What trade?
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I spent a couple years in the IBEW local 27 here in Maryland back in the mid 90's. I made it through my first year apprenticeship/school but left because journeyman were telling me how they could be laid off for months at a time. Not really thinking it through then, I could have easily gotten by with side work being an electrician had I stuck with it.
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