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Old 03-29-2018, 05:55 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia/South Jersey area
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Let me start off by saying, many people have it worse.

I have been at my warehouse job for almost 7 years (june will be 7)...I am about to go from having 2 weeks of vacation (which i got after three years....after year one and two i only had a week) to having 3 weeks of vacation but I am miserable. People, including my dad, have been suggesting that I consider just staying (even though those people know I have been miserable for years and previously they suggested I leave) unless I get offered more money, which is gonna be hard to come by with my lack of skills. I currently make $17/hr which is the maximum that an employee in my position can make. I can't get any more raises. However, I am tired of not making more money and having to deal with the "jail house" bully mentality of working at a warehouse.

I interviewed for a customer service position that pays the same as what I make now, but has better hours (it's a 1st shift job, weekends off, right now I work 4pm-1230am and get almost every weekend off), but the job has high turnover and most people don't last more than a few months. It's a customer service position at a manufacturing facility. I am not sure that they will even hire me because when I was asked my weaknesses, I told them that I don't quite work at the same pace as other people and the manager who interviewed me said that that will be a problem....so I'm guessing they aren't going to call and offer me that job.

I know I have posted on here before about not being able to get a job with my marketing degree. I don't think I want to do marketing anymore anyway. I have been out of school 10+ years and forgotten almost everything I learned anyway, so who would hire me anyway.


Every time I bring up wanting to leave the warehouse job and getting something better or with more potential, my dad and others always say, "well since you have been at the warehouse so long you have seniority so you might want to just consider staying". Seniority at a warehouse? what the f does that even get you anyway? It's not like they consult me before making important decisions.

I just want more out of life and more pay. I don't know what to do with my life, though. I know I will get roasted in here for posting this but I needed to vent.
Let me just say this sweetie (lol Southern roots please forgive me). My wonderful husband died at 53
My awesome baby brother died (cancer) at 49 and then my very best friend died from a sudden heart attack at 50.

The reason why I say this is this is a clear example when people say "life is short", DO NOT SPEND IT BEING MISERABLE.

now that does not mean just quit without a plan. First you seem to be a good employee so many places would hire you. second, try to start exploring what you think you might like. You don't have to know immediately.
Give yourself goals. Say stuff like in 1 year I would like to be...... and then research what it would take to get there.

The first step of getting started is the hardest. so let me challenge you. I want you to think about posting back in 6 months some concrete steps you've taken (promise me). It can be stuff like, "I got my resume professionally done" or I went on line and found 5 jobs I think might interest me.

YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
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Old 03-29-2018, 08:28 AM
 
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Then learn a trade....check your state's trade unions to see about becoming an apprentice....plumber for example......since you live in GA and they have a state lottery check employment opportunities at their website.....maybe drive around an assigned area of the state visiting lottery retailers....restocking tickets and vending machines etc....or maybe land a job holding up Million Dollar Jackpot checks for big winners.....but I still would suggest to learn a trade that automation will not be replacing anytime soon...healthcare is another option....x ray tech training etc....

Get something lined up solid and than leave the job that is making you miserable....your father and others mean will but live your life your way.....and being miserable at a job where you have already achieved the highest pay will just give you health problems in the future.....Learn a trade !!...Long distance truck driving is another option and trucking companies are always looking for good reliable drivers and are willing to pay for them.....Domino's pizza, Walmart and many other companies have their own fleet and rigs.
This!
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Old 03-29-2018, 08:51 AM
 
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Life is too short.YOU need to do what is best for you emotionally.It sounds like you're just not happy and everyone is telling you to stay in this job you're not happy with BECAUSE of the pay.Well why not see if you can downsize your means and then go find a job that might NOT pay as much BUT gives you much emotional joy and happiness because at the end of the day...you can only live for you and you have one life on this planet.Why not live it to make yourself happy and not others?
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Old 03-29-2018, 10:32 AM
 
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DeCastro --

What I would suggest is to stay on your job while you get your office/computer skills up to whatever level the company is requiring in their "help-wanted" online and internal ads for job openings.

EVERY warehouse is affiliated in some way with office jobs. Maybe you work for a company-owned warehouse and all the office jobs are done internally. Let's just start with the office jobs that may be directly tied to the warehouse:
Dispatching, scheduling and traffic clerk, shipping clerk, logistics specialist, receiving clerk, liaison with the with the credit and sales dept [to resolve credit holds on products being shipped -- sometimes the customer must be forced to pay their bill before more products are shipped out], bill of lading clerk [might have different title], GIS tracker .....

Then, start applying for the office jobs as an internal applicant. Your foot is already inside the door and this company has fantastic benefits. You just need to get that first office job, and prove your self. Learn your job and do it right. You have been at your company seven years -- you must be liked. Get noticed -- maybe even something like signing up for a PICNIC COMMITTEE! The little stuff can help.

Today's work world requires specific skill sets, so try and get the skills. If you live near a community college, take some classes in traffic management -- for example. I am using that as an example because some of your warehouse skills may transfer over [work adjustment due to delays, inventory issues, weather, truck break-downs, etc].

Good luck to you!
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Old 03-29-2018, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Santa Fe, NM
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The days of being secure in your job because you have been there a while are over. Don't stay because of that. If you are not happy working there, make a plan to move on to something else. Run TO something, not AWAY from something.
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Old 03-29-2018, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Houston
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What do you mean when you say you do not work at the same pace as others? Is that just some tasks are most of them?
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Old 03-29-2018, 10:41 AM
 
Location: morrow,ga
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What do you mean when you say you do not work at the same pace as others? Is that just some tasks are most of them?
Almost any task that needs to be done that is given to a group, I am the last one to finish my portion
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Old 03-29-2018, 12:06 PM
 
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During college and the year between college and law school, I had experience at a department store working in bill adjustments, cutomer service, and collections. I graduated with a BA in Political Science. After completing the first year of law school, and deciding not to go back for the second and third years, I worked for my friend's parents in their liquor store for minimum wage for 6 months. I couldn't find a decent job in LA, so I moved to NYC, and lived with my Dad for 6 weeks until I got a job as a credit authorizer for a credit card company and a place of my own to live. I stayed at the company for 7 years, and moved into training other authorizers and writing an authorizers procedure manual, then became a supervisor of credit authorizers on the midnight shift. From there I moved to another company where I stayed for 27 years. I wrote credit procedure manuals, then became an internal audit manager, got demoted from that job, was in limbo for a year and finally in my early 40's got my dream job of becoming a sys admin and data base admin with the task of implementing a computerized drafting system. Up to that point, I basically did whatever job would give me a paycheck. The sys admin job I really loved. I did that job for the next 16 years until I retired. That job was my true calling because I was a computer hobbyist for years and loved computers, but had no degree in computers so couldn't break into the field. It was just a lucky break. I had done a bunch of special projects for the VP while I was an audit manager, auditing non-profits he was involved with and installing computerized accounting systems, and when he needed someone to fill the sys admin/ data base administrator position fast, he figured I could learn it and pull it off, which I did. I became really good at the sys admin/dba job (that's basically the job Edward Snowden had at the NSA) and a year after I retired I got bored and went online looking for work in the field and got a 6 month contract for a major pharma company overseeing their business to business ordering servers on the 7PM to 7AM shift. Those servers processed about a million dollars an hour in direct internet sales, mostly to pharmacy chains. Then my old company called me and gave me an 18 month contract to fix data base errors in the drafting database from home. After working from home for 18 months I was too spoiled to commute to work again so I retired for good.

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Thanks. What did you choose to do instead?

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Old 03-29-2018, 12:08 PM
 
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I don't see anything wrong with wanting to change jobs. I do agree that you shouldn't quit unless you are offered something that is reasonably likely to be "better" - whatever "better" means for you, whether that is more money, different hours, or a more pleasant daily experience, or some combination thereof.

To give a real-life example, I work at a non-profit that cannot afford to compete with wages and benefits paid by other employers that compete for the same type of employee that we need. However, this non-profit has very low turnover because people are treated well, they like what they do, they have some amount of autonomy, and (BIG "and" here)... they have made the personal choice to work at a job they love, rather than to make more money yet be physically ill, never see their kids' baseball games, or have their marriages break down because they are chronically stressed out, anxious, and irritable (or drunk, high, or other things that people do to medicate their pain).

I'm not knocking anyone who makes the personal decision to go for a high-paying albeit stressful job. Those decisions are going to look different for each person. At the same time, if those well-meaning advice-givers cannot provide any more positive reason than, "But you've been there so long..." that doesn't seem like a good reason by itself to keep doing something you hate.

Rather than limiting yourself, why not consider what type of work you'd really like to do, and then complete some short-term courses or other training to get yourself into that field? Or maybe move to a different area that offers something different that you could try?

You must be a hard worker if you've made it this long where you are, AND you completed a degree. Start looking at the assets you do have, and don't let the naysayers bring you down. Best wishes!!
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Old 03-29-2018, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Northern California
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It shouldn't matter what others think, it is your life & your decision.
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