Relocating this summer...

[esianoyam3]

I work at the U in a very entry level job (front desk in a doctor's office). The pay isn't great, but the health benefits are amazing (and I worked in health insurance for a while, so I've seen a lot of different health plans). However, parking at the U is a nightmare. You can either deal with the lackluster shuttle service for free parking, or you can pay quite a bit for better parking closer to the hospital. The parking situation does seem to discourage some people from working at the U.

I don't know what pay or parking is like if you work for the University itself rather than the hospital, but I believe the health benefits are the same.

[Princeza]

Thanks for the info. Good benefits are really important for me, so that's one of the reasons why I'm looking into working at the U. Although, their vacation plan seems a bit stingy. Does anyone know if the employees get a winter break? I currently work at a University here in Philly and we get the week after Christmas off, in addition to 24 vacation days.

[BorderGirl]

Originally Posted by Princeza

Thanks for the info. Good benefits are really important for me, so that's one of the reasons why I'm looking into working at the U. Although, their vacation plan seems a bit stingy. Does anyone know if the employees get a winter break? I currently work at a University here in Philly and we get the week after Christmas off, in addition to 24 vacation days.

I just started working at the U myself, and as far as I know, we do not get any additional days off for Christmas. However, my department is staffed 24/7, but as far as the Administration goes, we get the 25th off.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Originally Posted by BorderGirl

I just started working at the U myself, and as far as I know, we do not get any additional days off for Christmas. However, my department is staffed 24/7, but as far as the Administration goes, we get the 25th off.

It makes a difference if you work for the hospital part of the U or the university part of the U.

If you want hospital work, there's also the IMed (Intermountain Medical) and St. Mark's and Salt Lake Regional for large hospitals. LDS Hosp is much smaller now and laying off people as patient loads dropped after IMed opened.

[Zibbet18]

Why is the rental situation strange? How is it strange? I have to rent a home and really don't want to deal with a landlord who thinks it is acceptable to raise the rent 50% in 6 months. I think we will get in SLC in June and want to move in by July. Does that seem logical?

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

I passed by the Incline Apts. the other day - looked nice from the outside, don't know a thing about them except they are very well located, on the slope where 5th South tuens into 4th South. On the TRAX line, between downtown and the U. Maybe someone else knows something about them? or else a place to check when you come.

[cinnabon]

Originally Posted by Zibbet18

Why is the rental situation strange? How is it strange? I have to rent a home and really don't want to deal with a landlord who thinks it is acceptable to raise the rent 50% in 6 months. I think we will get in SLC in June and want to move in by July. Does that seem logical?

I don't mean this in a bad way, but what are you talking about?

[Jcoombs]

my fiance and I just relocated here in january. We stayed downtown for a few months at emigration apts.. they are pretty small, but we only stayed in a one bedroom. The downtown apartments are a little expensive. And that's weird to us since we just moved from the baltimore, MD area where rent is sky high for a 1 bdroom. Now we rent in cottonwood heights. We found that some of the nicer and more affordable apartments are outside of the downtown area. Coming from a high traffic metro area, the traffic out here commuting to downtown isn't bad at all and we usually travel around 7am.

We also just bought a home in south jordan/daybreak and will be commuting from there to downtown as well.

If space is an issue, i would consider renting in a suburb out of downtown, possibly cottonwood?

[c-rouge]

To the OP,

I did the Park City to SLC commute every day for a couple of years. 25 minutes flat (near downtown). Studded snows are the way to go. I had a little Honda Civic and would pass the poor, stuck semis during a storm. It wasn't too bad really. Sometimes however, they close the canyon, so you have to listen to reports. If they close the canyon or they forecast closing, head home asap or be prepared for a longer drive around the mountain. Honestly, I only had to beat a canyon closing twice.

Good luck. Park City is cool - expensive though.

:-)

[BorderGirl]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

It makes a difference if you work for the hospital part of the U or the university part of the U.

If you want hospital work, there's also the IMed (Intermountain Medical) and St. Mark's and Salt Lake Regional for large hospitals. LDS Hosp is much smaller now and laying off people as patient loads dropped after IMed opened.

I work in Health Sciences. My last post was about a week after starting the new job, so I didn't know all of the details. I have heard that last year that all of the admin staff were off for a week (which is what I'm hoping for so much!) and then everyone else was there as normal.

I don't have a parking problem as we have our own lot, but I have had to travel all over campus for training and other work purposes and parking is a mess!