if you're making 4500 every two weeks I'd stay with that job that is if they have a fare amount of work. 17.30 an hour you're driving 20 miles in that dually isn't to good of gas milage I bet, I just don't know if I'd go that low. I drive a car that gets 39 mpg and I think i'd only take that if there truely was nothing around and plus no benefits now and possibly none later that just isn't worth it to me. With benefits yeah it would be worth it for a while. I think stay on you're truck
I'd stay in the truck. Make the money while its there to be made.
Shad I have been in mining for almost 20 years now and 17.30 is helper wages. I pay my welder/mechanics much better 21-30 depending on experience and upper 30's if they can pass the OM6 test. Sounds like they are trying to get a good guy really cheap, with no bennies and the possibility of lay off in Dec I don't think I would do it. If it were me i would keep running the truck. I have no contacts in Texas but many in NM, AZ, CO, UT and NV if that sounds like something you may be interested in?
That is low pay for a good industrial maintenance guy. If there are no bennies involved...I personally would not do it. With good insurance, paid time off, sick time, 401 matching....well maybe. Stash some of the cash your making now and stay on it if you can stand it.......gives you time to look for something better whether they pick you up or not. I have been out of work for 6 months, maybe I am stubborn but If I take a regular job I still demand to be paid what the work is worth with me doing it.......so far no body has come up with the $$. I have never ever drawn unemployment so long.....but I am not giving away my skills and sweat untill they shut off my lights and I cant have a cold beer every once in a while.
Don't sell yourself short Shad.
Tommy
Wade the decision has been weighing on my mind since i got out of there and i'm not gonna take it if it is offered to me. Italked to my mom today ( she works at the power plant they supply the lignite to) and told her what they said and she said she didnt have any answers for me it was a tuff decision and knew what i am facing. Ihave worked long and hard to get where i am today and i just got back in with the outfit i'm with now and i will not be titled a quitter to go on a gamble i might get a full time job it just aint worth it. What company do you work for yes i'm intrested. Really any of those places would be fine but New mexico sounds real good. I really just want to weld i dont want to turn wrenches i can do it but i am by no means a heavy eqipment mechanic.
Shad, you go with it , you will not be happy.
You know you are getting low balled and they know they are low balling you.
Benefits are $6-8 per hour. So at 18 plus 8 that is $26. And they are telling you you have a job till the end of the year?
What is the upside?
To me I cannot see it. If this was in the $40-45 range, I could see making the change, not for this.
This is truck driver wages.
BK there is no upside and i aint goin if its offered. Ifigured it up and what i would make in 2 weeks goin there i can make in a day if i bust my ass really good
37,400 gross income at 18 an hour.
At 45 an hour, you need to work 832 hours a year to equal the full time gig. (remember, you cannot count health insurance any more as a benifit given the obama health care crap)
832 hours at 50 hours a week breaks down to 4 months work vs 12 months of work for the same money.
If you have 4 months of assured work, vs 6 months and a maybe, you would have to add dummy to your job title if you got out of your truck.
Gerald 4.5 months of work at that wage is 12,698.55 and a maybe it aint worth it i can make that in 6 weeks where i'm at now. So i'm gonna stick it out the oil field is starting to pick up around here so hopefully things will get even better
Around here $17/hour is good mechanic wages, if you can weld around here and turn wrenches then that's considered a freeby....for the employer. No bennies, layoff in another 4.5 months, yeah I'd go for the big no thank you. While your wasting away in the shop with oil running down your arm into your armpit your cell phone will be ringing saying, "Hey Shad, where you at? Got a big job in blah blah land making $50 an hour. When can you be here?". Then you'll be kicking yourself. I'm not getting in 50 hours a week running my rig and still won't take a mechanic job. Do they want you to supply your own tools? That's a big price tag in itself. Sounds like they need a mechanic to crank out some work temporarily til they get caught up, tell them to call staffmark or something.
yea thats another thing i gotta supply my tools i say forget it
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