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OP, I honestly think you are better off staying employed with the state. Since you work six months out of a year, you could go to school online during your time off. I wouldn’t recommend quitting your current job. The economy is unstable. These days there are many college graduates with little career prospects.
Plus, if you stay employed with the state, you could either get tuition reimbursement or have your student loans (if you decide to get student loans) forgiven for being a public servant. Good Luck!
I'd strongly encourage you to do a compare-and-contrast of benefits between Wal-Mart and your state, both the type and extent of benefits and the cost to the employee. My younger kid learned a hard, hard lesson about the critical necessity of examining the benefits package with a keen eye before taking a seemingly advantageous job offer; I won't go into details, but really look carefully at what it would cost you to get the same health insurance coverage you get from the state at Wal-Mart. If you've got other benefits as well - dental or vision insurance, longterm care insurance, disability insurance, income replacement, etc - see if they exist at Wal-Mart, and if so, how much they cost the employee.
The other thing I'd comment is to agree with those who mentioned the insane hours around the holidays. Do you have a family? Do you have regular holiday traditions; do you like to travel around the holidays? Will it bother you if you have to work on Thanksgiving, until 10:00 pm or later on Christmas Eve, on New Year's Day, on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, and so on? How well do you handle working 50 and 60 hour weeks? Are you ok with being on your feet and on the go for ten to twelve hours a day?
Having worked both in retail and for a state agency, I can tell you that I'd far rather work for the state than for Wal-Mart. There are drawbacks, most assuredly, as there are in any job, but one of the biggest advantages in working for the state was it actually allows time and energy for a life outside of work.
I have been working for the state for the past 6 years sometimes i look back and i asked myself how did I come this far and i plan on going back to school full time online at liberty.edu I work 6 months out of the year. I work 12 or more hours shifts for 4 to 5 days and then i am off 4 to 5 days. I luv my days off mon-fri. BUt now i am stuck with a house payment it's a brand new house. I love my days off. But my dream job is to become a librarian. If you had the option of going to wal-mart and struggle with bills or would you stick to the state job and suck it up?
Totally would stick with the state job. You work for six months a year, that's it? You work 12 hour shifts for 5 days and then get 5 days off? SWEET! Does it pay well enough to keep you afloat and have a little cushion?
Wal Mart isn't going to pay you a whole lot even if you stay on for a few years.
Just suck it up with the state job. Get your school, (while you have every other week off! Blessings!), and then start looking around for something else. It's going to look a whole lot better on your resume that you had x plus years at a state job while going to school than it is to have 6 years at a state job and then x years at Wally World.
Why on earth would you trade in a state job for Wally World?!!?!?
OP, I honestly think you are better off staying employed with the state. Since you work six months out of a year, you could go to school online during your time off. I wouldn’t recommend quitting your current job. The economy is unstable. These days there are many college graduates with little career prospects.
This.
OP is one of the very few who want to further education and have a job with significant blocks of time off that allows them to do it. Take advantage of this.
Full time at Wally-World won't pay you a living wage. Or even make your house payment.
Keep what you have. And BTW, librarian jobs are difficult to get and the competition is brutal. And the number of jobs is declining. It is definitely NOT a growth field. Go to school if you want to go to school. But don't expect a degree in Library Science to buy you much. Especially if it's only a bachelor's of some kind. Most require at least a master's.
I have 2 relatives who are librarians and it took one of them almost 15 years to get a job in the field. Both of them say there's no way they would tell their kids to become librarians. There aren't enough jobs.
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