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Thor1590
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I just got out of an interview to transfer to a mail carrier position in the USPS. It pays around $25 an hour, with benefits and overtime and all that jazz. The interview went well, and it sounds like it might be open in a week or so.
I currently work data entry (also for the USPS) and make about $18 an hour (with benefits and overtime as well). My girlfriend works at the same place. What with the USPS' woes, both jobs feel like somewhat shaky options for the future.
The data entry job, however, pays well enough and has night time hours which allow me to go to school during the day. We're able to afford our own apartment and go to school and have quite a bit left over, which is incredibly fortunate.
The question is: should I take the mail carrier position, which will remove my ability to go to school (at least for this semester), but would pay more and spread out our employments so that if the data entry place were to close, we wouldn't be totally screwed? Another problem: many of the classes I need to finish my degree, which I need around 2 more years to do, are seemingly only offered during the day, and the mail carrier position would be much less about lenient vacation/sick leave and would restrict me to night classes anyway. I feel like if I take the carrier job, I'm done for good.
Basically, if I take the carrier post, will I be stuck as an unskilled bum? What have your experiences with night classes been? There are some avenues I can pursue for sort of freelance coding work, but those won't end up with a degree.
I'm 22, I'm pursuing a CS degree, and I love run on sentences. Any advice?
I currently work data entry (also for the USPS) and make about $18 an hour (with benefits and overtime as well). My girlfriend works at the same place. What with the USPS' woes, both jobs feel like somewhat shaky options for the future.
The data entry job, however, pays well enough and has night time hours which allow me to go to school during the day. We're able to afford our own apartment and go to school and have quite a bit left over, which is incredibly fortunate.
The question is: should I take the mail carrier position, which will remove my ability to go to school (at least for this semester), but would pay more and spread out our employments so that if the data entry place were to close, we wouldn't be totally screwed? Another problem: many of the classes I need to finish my degree, which I need around 2 more years to do, are seemingly only offered during the day, and the mail carrier position would be much less about lenient vacation/sick leave and would restrict me to night classes anyway. I feel like if I take the carrier job, I'm done for good.
Basically, if I take the carrier post, will I be stuck as an unskilled bum? What have your experiences with night classes been? There are some avenues I can pursue for sort of freelance coding work, but those won't end up with a degree.
I'm 22, I'm pursuing a CS degree, and I love run on sentences. Any advice?
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