1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

For the one in Alaska they fly me out every 3 weeks and I live on site. The guy said it’s about 300-400 a day.

The one in Idaho is a permanent position. They want to start me at 23/hr, but I wanna try to negotiate.

 

Ew, it's travel, that's even worse. It's like being trapped, you have a place you exist for a bit but nothing to do other than sleep.

 

@eon_blue

FYI

 

Let's take the kid somewhere fun today.


The kid.

 

Yea but then you get 3 weeks off

 

Isn't that more than you make right now?

 

Yea only by 3-5 an hour but it is more. I’d also have to move away from the gf at least for a bit, so I wouldn’t be splitting rent and groceries anymore.

 

Sounds like a tough schedule for shit pay. You said $400 days on the high end? So 400*5=2000*3=$6000... Then three weeks of no pay and another 3 weeks before the next check hits? After taxes what... 4800ish every 6 weeks? That sounds ungood to me. Almost 9 checks a year on that schedule is $51,600 gross.

 

I guess, but it’s only for 6 months and sounds like good experience. I’d get to see Alaska too, and I could work at the cafe on those weeks off.

 

I mean, take a vacation to Alaska sometime? That's a better financial proposition than that job. The hell are you gonna do with every other 3 weeks off with the kinda money they're offering? Unless you plan to sleep for 3 weeks straight and spend nothing. The Idaho position is year round and similar money but you have a permanent position and an opportunity for a raise. The only way Alaska makes sense is if my money math is off but that would mean you either need to work 7 days a week or you need to be paid more per day. But still I'd want at least a tentative offer of a permanent position before I waste a year doing that

 

Yea at least there’d be an end in sight with the Alaska thing tho. There’s a certain amount of existential dread with standard 8-5 jobs. This place in Idaho also seems to be stuck in the 90s with their PTO and work-life balance attitudes. Either one would be solid experience to build off though.

 

Whats the position in Idaho?

 

Natural Resource Planner. I’d be researching and writing reports for clients dealing with NEPA and wildfire mitigation, etc.

 

Probably not the parts that people wanna see.

 

It’s on Admiralty Island which is supposed to be beautiful. I’m sure the mine site itself isn’t exactly pretty though.

 

From what I'm seeing after 45 seconds on Indeed, there's some pretty decent upside potential on that position. Senior level getting up to 150k.

 

Yea maybe not at that company, but it’d be good experience for sure.

 

I haven't been around here long enough to know, but do you have 'career' job experience otherwise?
If not, any professional career type job experience will help a ton on getting the next one. Or stick with it and grow

 

Youre expenses shouldn't be the issue, what experience do you have? It's an entry position yeah? What additional things do you bring to the table to be worth more than their entry pay?