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First Shift or Second Shift?
So I just started the job that I'm at last November and I love it. Great benefits, great pay, and the people I work with on second shift are fantastic. I used to live in a small town in Maryland where I also worked second, but it didn't bother me since there wasn't much I was missing out on. Now that I live in Austin there's SO much to do, and I've made a few friends that love to go out. Beyond that there's so much to do that I feel that I'm only 23 and I should be letting myself experience it instead of burying myself in second shift just for a $0.75 difference. Now I mentioned it to one woman that I've been growing close to and she immediately said no. That I would hate first shift, and that the people are dramatic (which they are). And that they would pick on me (which they would) and I couldn't come back to second if I switched. I wanted to argue that I'm only 23, not in my 40s like the rest of the people I work with. I want to experience life, and if I have to put up with a few bitter people to do it then I will. But I just need a second (third, fourth) opinion from maybe someone my age. What would you do? Stay on second for the comfort and the money? Or go to first and deal with the drama, but gain my social life back.
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I don't recommend switching to first shift. If your happy where you are I defiantly wouldn't change it. My husband works a job that he hates. He likes the job but hates the people. He says its drama all day every day. Its to the point where he hates going to work. Having a social life is great, I agree with you there, but having a career and a job you love is more important. 5 or so years from now when you my age, settled down married, with a baby on the way, you'll be thankful for that $.75 extra pay and a job you enjoy.
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I'm not your age in fact I'm old enough to be your grandfather or great grandfather. So maybe the wisdom of my age will aid you in your decision.
The nice thing about second shift is the drama you don't deal with stems from not having the bosses around constantly looking over your shoulder. You don't say what you are doing though what ever it is it must be something important to warrant a $0.75 per hour pay differential. That differential is why you have people so much older on your shift is worth $30 a week or $1,500 a year. That pays a lot of bills for a family.
You can be on second shift and still have a social life it just has to be on your days off and in the period before or after work. What you miss by not being on the first shift is micromanagement by the bosses. Again not knowing just what it is you do though whatever it is you could be going hard at it hours and stop for a minute to rest or figure out what is next on your list. A manager walks by sees you standing around doing nothing and you get a tongue lashing for goofing off. That's part of the drama of first shift.
When I was in the Air Force I was a maintenance controller. Why, because I was an aircraft maintenance person with a career code that gave me knowledge over the primary flight controls. The Deputy Commander of Maintenance(DCM) asked me to take that position.
We were a transit station so I had to decide what maintenance needed to be done and what could be held until the plane returned to home base. There is lot of a paper work that has to be done as well. I had my own way of doing the paperwork during my shift it was not the Air Force way but it was fast and at the end of my shift I would redo the paperwork to meet the Air Force standard.
This worked fine and the DCM who arrived between 0400 and 0500 in the morning got use to it and would tease me about my paperwork asking such things as what language was I writing in. On first shift there were too many bosses around sticking their noses in where they really shouldn't have been. Drove me crazy. It got to the point that the DCM had to give them a direct order to leave me alone and let me do my job.
That is what first shift can be like. Too many bosses around to let you do the job the way your comfortable with so in the end it works out the way it should.
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