Depends on the day.
Anyone else hate their job?
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My Job:
I have burns on my body that will likely never go away. ( I say this as I Went to a funeral for a guy a couple years back who in the same profession who had the same burns.) From crude oil, and constant h2s exposure.
Umm.. On thanksgiving at 3am, I was sleeping in my truck as I was called out
Over 18 hour shifts are becoming common. Hell yesterday I started at 4am... got a call at 11am saying. " we are about to do a 12 hour job and have to have someone here"
My job sites are a 3 hour round trip from home... so if I'm on call, Which is 2 weeks a month, i have to respond to any call. Which last week happened every single day from Wed-Sun. So quality of life at those times is basically shot. So at any point I could be sleeping or having dinner.. I have to immediately get home or wake up, and rush out to a site, even if I had just got home from a 15 hour day.
But the pay.. is insane basically. I took an interview yesterday for a supervisor position at another company... 40k pay cut. I've lost count of the number of divorces I've seen. Deaths. Few suicides. It's a brutal industry. But at the end of the day I'm a high school drop out.... the only jobs outside of this industry I've had in my life, I didnt make over 500 a week.
I have burns on my body that will likely never go away. ( I say this as I Went to a funeral for a guy a couple years back who in the same profession who had the same burns.) From crude oil, and constant h2s exposure.
Umm.. On thanksgiving at 3am, I was sleeping in my truck as I was called out
Over 18 hour shifts are becoming common. Hell yesterday I started at 4am... got a call at 11am saying. " we are about to do a 12 hour job and have to have someone here"
My job sites are a 3 hour round trip from home... so if I'm on call, Which is 2 weeks a month, i have to respond to any call. Which last week happened every single day from Wed-Sun. So quality of life at those times is basically shot. So at any point I could be sleeping or having dinner.. I have to immediately get home or wake up, and rush out to a site, even if I had just got home from a 15 hour day.
But the pay.. is insane basically. I took an interview yesterday for a supervisor position at another company... 40k pay cut. I've lost count of the number of divorces I've seen. Deaths. Few suicides. It's a brutal industry. But at the end of the day I'm a high school drop out.... the only jobs outside of this industry I've had in my life, I didnt make over 500 a week.
I’m in the same boat as the op. I’m 28 and I’ve been a tech for almost 9 years now and hate it. I’d love to get into a different career but have no idea what to do.
Six figure pay sucks?
Yes, I hate my job so much!!!! I wish my Asthma was bad enough that I could go on disability.
I thought the same thing. Police work can pay above average with a pension to boot.
plus everyone knows the cops have the good dope.
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It's not six figures in AZ, starting pay for mesa PD is 54k and that would be a decent pay cut for me, if I sold my Shelby I could do it. But I don't want to do that
cops around here work off duty for $30 $50 an hr. for standing around.
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That's with yer endorsements though. Ugly cops only make mid 30's.
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12 years as a TDCJ correctional officer had it ups and downs. Actually more downs than ups, but Im not gonna get into that right now.
Valeting high end cars is great until you have to talk to the dipshit owners and explain that there is 10 other “special edition corvettes” sitting in the lot. Yes that really happened and he was very pissed, but tipped a 20$. I make decent for being a non educated non life productive dummy. It has a flexible schedule which benefits me and Ive driven everything from Focus cars to brand new TrackHawks and a couple of R8. Its not 6 figure cop salary, but my morals prevented me from going into that profession.
Actually about to clock in now and make my chump change and watch YouTube while i wait for the spring to come around so i can get done with school and do a job I want.
Valeting high end cars is great until you have to talk to the dipshit owners and explain that there is 10 other “special edition corvettes” sitting in the lot. Yes that really happened and he was very pissed, but tipped a 20$. I make decent for being a non educated non life productive dummy. It has a flexible schedule which benefits me and Ive driven everything from Focus cars to brand new TrackHawks and a couple of R8. Its not 6 figure cop salary, but my morals prevented me from going into that profession.
Actually about to clock in now and make my chump change and watch YouTube while i wait for the spring to come around so i can get done with school and do a job I want.
I've come to realize Mike Rowe is right: Your enjoyment of your job has very little to do with the actual work itself.
I've slowly learned it's more about the people you work with and your attitude. I don't like the work I do right now at all. But the people I work with are fun to be around, and my job keeps me close to my daughter. So, I live with the work.
I've slowly learned it's more about the people you work with and your attitude. I don't like the work I do right now at all. But the people I work with are fun to be around, and my job keeps me close to my daughter. So, I live with the work.
This is it.
If you like/respect the people you work with and for, you’ll enjoy going to work each day.
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If you want, email me your resume. My old lady does IT recruiting. She could surely keep an eye out for a good fit for you, buddy. No problem. She keeps a few of my friends resumes on file so when she finds a fit they’re top of the contact list.
@OP, changing jobs shouldn’t matter for a house as long as it’s the same career path. I just bought a house and i changed jobs 3 months ago. No biggie.
Worked for the PO for 35 years. Got into maintenance and that made it better. Worked way up to top Elec Tech. The job was easy. Just sit around and wait till something breaks, then go fix it. Anyway as I said the job was nice but the management sucked big time. That basically made it a terrible place to work. I stuck it out because by the time it got really bad I was in for the long haul as they had a good retirement. Since then they have changed the retirement system over to SS so not as good a deal. Anyway you have to do what you need to to provide for family. If it meant driving some distance to get a better position I would do it.
Sell the car if you really want to be an LEO. I would. We ain't getting any younger.
shiiiiiit cops out my way don't make half of that.
But then again, they don't have the jawline of a god.
I could not disagree more. I love my job and enjoy going to work. I look forward to retirement also because that will be the next adventure in my life.
And I didn't read all that shit after this comment.
Do Lexus tech. Make big money? Cops can make a good living, just depends on the state and department.
6 figure job, great benefits, pension, massive amount of time off( I took 11 weeks off so far this year), All large suburbs in Franklin county Ohio make 90-95k. That's with out overtime, shift diff, longevity pay, court time. Factor in benefits, 120k easily. I couldn't imagine dealing/ risking so much for a penny less.
It's either feast or famine though. You either work at a good department and make money or you work at some bs place for 20 an hour.
I'm going on 5 years as a LEO (not registered on this site). It was a blast for the first 3. Now I arrest the same D bags all the time and deal with the same crap everyday. Truely a thankless job. People say thank you for your service and will be the first ones to criticize. Don't get me started on the departmental BS and massively HUGE egos of some cops. It's tiring.
I love being a cop, but it will eat you up if you don't work for a good boss have good partners and make good money. Luckly my Sgt. And my shift are great and when we want to, can do fantastic work.
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