JojoTheWhale
CORN BOY
- May 22, 2008
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Mitigating risk is cool, it's a mindset my current job has been beating into me for a decade.
Having people want to pay me without understanding my job is a huge upgrade. Currently, every time there is management turnover in a DOT, we have a problem where we are not understood and they do not want to pay us. And then the local office has to scream their heads off. I don't think the bigwigs ever do come to understand what we do, they just understand that paying us the meager amount we require is a good way to make the ops center shut up.
I suspect this is how it is for many now and it's sad.
The truth of it is that we're both necessary and marketing now. Some shops will hire you just to have a guy or fill a requirement for dept size, but you can identity those in less than a week, establish your salary, and be out the door in a year. That year will be miserable to be sure, but you can make that time work for you going forward.
Also, it has reached hard liquor time.