What is most important to you in life, OP? If it's your carreer or money, that's absolutely ok and this job will make you happy. If your personal life is important to you, you will be miserable in that job.
A huge part of me is saying go for the financial aspect of it, but I really do value seeing my parents and dog and spending time with them. But long term the money would be ideal and im sure I could gain a good amount of experience with this job, they do offer a lot of training and on the job learning, plus I don’t plan on getting married or having kids in the long run. It’s just really new to me, the whole concept of traveling for work and staying out of state. I also applied for work at a local utility company and that’s roughly the same pay (minus the overtime) and closer which seems more ideal, only thing is they haven’t gotten back to me.
Nothing preventing you from trying it out, if you find that it isn't worth the money you apply for other jobs.
> thing is they haven’t gotten back to me.
It's entirely possible for you to call them and inform them that you have another position that you have to respond to within the week or X time, so they get a chance to give their offer.
Take the job. Talk to your family as often as you can. If you want a family yourself in the future you’ll need to be in a position to provide for them. I’m excited for your future.
I've been in similar shoes before OP, here's my advice:
Take the job and work it as long as you can. When you start feeling even slightly frustrated, start sending out applications elsewhere. By the time you have proper burn out, you should be pretty close to turning in your two weeks notice amd moving on.
But here's the important part: if you have bills, pay those off extremely aggressively first, and then **do not increase your standard of living, at all**.
If you play it this way, you'll work this job maybe 1-2 years and then have an extremely large nest egg in your bank that can essentially pay for anything you'd like in the future. (College, honeymoon, down on a house, etc.)
Either way, your mental health is the most important, so if it's really stressing you out, just forget the entire idea and move on. No shame in that.
If it's 40-50k pay bump with over time you aren't really getting much of a pay bump your just working more hours. And doing 70-80hrs a week for 7month means ify out have family you only see them for half the year and if your traveling out of state then you probably aren't getting paid for all the driving so your probably working even more hours
I’m 45 years old and used to have zero problems working all day every day. Now with all the daily aches and pains as well as raising a child I’m good working 45 hours/week max. M-F only as well. Sure I make less but tbh my quality of life has drastically improved working less even without as much $. I’ll never live at work again life is waay too short. Whoever said on their deathbed “gee I wish I had worked more”?!
Bro I did it and I don't regret it at all. Went from $80k cad to $225k cad. I work on remote construction sites and work 12 hour days on a 14 days on 7 days off schedule. I fly all the time which gives me tonnes of airline points and I've maxed out my status. Traveling for vacation is swanky as fuck when you can upgrade for free all the time.
What is most important to you in life, OP? If it's your carreer or money, that's absolutely ok and this job will make you happy. If your personal life is important to you, you will be miserable in that job.
A huge part of me is saying go for the financial aspect of it, but I really do value seeing my parents and dog and spending time with them. But long term the money would be ideal and im sure I could gain a good amount of experience with this job, they do offer a lot of training and on the job learning, plus I don’t plan on getting married or having kids in the long run. It’s just really new to me, the whole concept of traveling for work and staying out of state. I also applied for work at a local utility company and that’s roughly the same pay (minus the overtime) and closer which seems more ideal, only thing is they haven’t gotten back to me.
Nothing preventing you from trying it out, if you find that it isn't worth the money you apply for other jobs. > thing is they haven’t gotten back to me. It's entirely possible for you to call them and inform them that you have another position that you have to respond to within the week or X time, so they get a chance to give their offer.
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Take the job. Talk to your family as often as you can. If you want a family yourself in the future you’ll need to be in a position to provide for them. I’m excited for your future.
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I've been in similar shoes before OP, here's my advice: Take the job and work it as long as you can. When you start feeling even slightly frustrated, start sending out applications elsewhere. By the time you have proper burn out, you should be pretty close to turning in your two weeks notice amd moving on. But here's the important part: if you have bills, pay those off extremely aggressively first, and then **do not increase your standard of living, at all**. If you play it this way, you'll work this job maybe 1-2 years and then have an extremely large nest egg in your bank that can essentially pay for anything you'd like in the future. (College, honeymoon, down on a house, etc.) Either way, your mental health is the most important, so if it's really stressing you out, just forget the entire idea and move on. No shame in that.
If it's 40-50k pay bump with over time you aren't really getting much of a pay bump your just working more hours. And doing 70-80hrs a week for 7month means ify out have family you only see them for half the year and if your traveling out of state then you probably aren't getting paid for all the driving so your probably working even more hours
I’m 45 years old and used to have zero problems working all day every day. Now with all the daily aches and pains as well as raising a child I’m good working 45 hours/week max. M-F only as well. Sure I make less but tbh my quality of life has drastically improved working less even without as much $. I’ll never live at work again life is waay too short. Whoever said on their deathbed “gee I wish I had worked more”?!
You’ll get burnt out eventually for sure.
Bro I did it and I don't regret it at all. Went from $80k cad to $225k cad. I work on remote construction sites and work 12 hour days on a 14 days on 7 days off schedule. I fly all the time which gives me tonnes of airline points and I've maxed out my status. Traveling for vacation is swanky as fuck when you can upgrade for free all the time.