I got a job interview with RJR in Winston.... (Greenville: community college, live)

[coped]

Originally Posted by jdub0385

So you don't think the job has growth opportunities?

I mean, it might in the short term. But always be looking for transferable skills to other industries.

Tobacco has been dying a slow death. There are fewer and fewer users each year - at least in the states.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by coped

Tobacco has been dying a slow death. There are fewer and fewer users each year - at least in the states.

Before too long the manufactured and adulterated and advertised industrial product
known as packaged cigarettes will be made completely illegal.
Real leaf rolled cigars and loose tobacco for pipes or hand rolling will have to do.

The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.

[LLN]

Hope you smoke 'um on your interview.

[laneynewport]

Originally Posted by chewies

I wouldn't move to Winston-Salem. Greensboro is a lot larger city with less crime, friendlier people, and more to do. Yep, Greensboro is better than Winston-Salem.

I can't make any sense of this except to conclude that chewies enjoys sarcastic humor and decided to give it a shot but got bogged down with the sarcasm and forgot that the point was to actually be funny. A good case can certainly be made for living in Greensboro but it has all the usual pros and cons of any large city. And it certainly isn't safer or friendlier. I do some business in Greensboro (I live in High Point) but I find the traffic to be much more difficult than Winston. For someone who has accepted a job in Winston, there's no good reason I can think of to recommend living in Greensboro. Clemmons, Kernersville, Lewisville are all great places to live if you don't want to live in Winston but don't want to commute but the only reason I can think of to move to Greensboro because you've found a job in the triad area is if that job is actually in Greensboro.

[akwebb81]

Originally Posted by jdub0385

Thanks well I have an AS degree in electronics engineering I want to begin a BS in Electrical Engineering if I get this job... The pay is attractive but I agree its much more to a job than pay. I'll keep you updated.

FYI, as far as I know, the only engineering program in the triad is at NC A&T in Greensboro. Good luck to you on the job and move. While I do agree that tobacco is a dying industry, so don't expect to be a lifer at RJR, it is experience. Just completing your degree and finding a decent paying job a field that will qualify as experience is good news in any economy. You'll have plenty of time to figure out your direction while building the valuable prerequisites for future endeavors.

[WFW&P]

Tobacco exports are up and the largest tobacco company no one ever talks about is NOT laying off employees.

[Aspe4]

Originally Posted by jdub0385

Thanks well I have an AS degree in electronics engineering I want to begin a BS in Electrical Engineering if I get this job... The pay is attractive but I agree its much more to a job than pay. I'll keep you updated.

My sis lives in Gboro I've been to both places just never lived in either city. I just would like to stay in a safe neighborhood near singles.



So you don't think the job has growth opportunities?

What would you do for RJR? Do they have actual manufacturing plants in Winston Salem. That's where I would assume an engineer would be needed. Good luck, it's good to hear people are still getting jobs in this economy.

[SunnyKayak]

Originally Posted by Aspe4

What would you do for RJR? Do they have actual manufacturing plants in Winston Salem. That's where I would assume an engineer would be needed. Good luck, it's good to hear people are still getting jobs in this economy.

I dont know if they still manufacture in Winston Salem but he probably work out of corporate and assigned to the other plants nearby in King and Tobaccoville. Development could still be occuring in WS.
Also RJR makes more than cigarettes, he could use his skills with other developments like Camel Orbs and Snus and other products.

[silverwing]

Originally Posted by coped

Tobacco is a dying industry.

Changing, I think, but not dying.

Riding my motorcycle up 601, through Yadkin Valley, I was very surprised to see tobacco fields. That's a main road to get up to the Blue Ridge Parkway, so I'm up that way many times during the year. I haven't seen such a spread of tobacco in at least 5 years - large fields, not just an acre here or there.

I'll likely be riding in the NW section of the state later in the season. NW of the Sparta area, up route 93, once used to be an area where the plant was grown. It will be interesting to see if the crop has returned to that part of the state as well.

As much as I'm against the use of the leaf, its production is interesting. A lot of the old tobacco sheds - built of logs and probably over a century old - were still used for drying. This was from that area in 2004. For such a valuable product, the methods of drying were quite simple.



There's something going on with the industry if people find it a worthy crop to get back into.

[coped]

Originally Posted by silverwing

Changing, I think, but not dying.

Riding my motorcycle up 601, through Yadkin Valley, I was very surprised to see tobacco fields. That's a main road to get up to the Blue Ridge Parkway, so I'm up that way many times during the year. I haven't seen such a spread of tobacco in at least 5 years - large fields, not just an acre here or there.

I'll likely be riding in the NW section of the state later in the season. NW of the Sparta area, up route 93, once used to be an area where the plant was grown. It will be interesting to see if the crop has returned to that part of the state as well.

As much as I'm against the use of the leaf, its production is interesting. A lot of the old tobacco sheds - built of logs and probably over a century old - were still used for drying. This was from that area in 2004. For such a valuable product, the methods of drying were quite simple.



There's something going on with the industry if people find it a worthy crop to get back into.

That's interesting. I had heard that sales were up in places like China and India. But I didn't realize we'd be growing it here again.