Job offering

befarrer · Post by **befarrer** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:41 am

I just started a new job at the beginning of October, I work at the same place as my GF, it started out to be a tempory job to get some money, but I like it, and the bosses like my work, I am already doing the more technical stuff there. My boss is transferring to FtMcmurray at the end of this month, and he has offered me and my GF a job up there. Right now I am making $16/h, but if I take this job, I will be getting $26-28/hr, which isnt much for FtMcmurray, but they supply us with a 2 bedroom condo, and I will be getting a company truck, and doing field work too, so that takes care of the expensive housing up there. I like the idea, but FtMcmurray is remote, and I dont know if I would like it or not, I may have to give up stuff like my AutoX and things like that, since Edmonton is a 4 hour drive or so away.

Here is who I work for:

www.hazco.com

DiggityBiggity · Post by **DiggityBiggity** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:54 pm

What's your g/f think about it?

The Dark Side of Will · Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:01 pm

If your GF is up for it, go for it, live simply and sock the money away for a couple of years (sounds like your living expenses will be basically nil), then move somewhere you'd really like to be.

What is it you do?

befarrer · Post by **befarrer** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:18 am

Right now I just repack the incoming waste. I go through it and sort it out so it can be sent to the right disposal place (incineration, landfill, recycle, etc...), I do the more complex ones though like the flammable liquids (MEK, Methanol, Toluene, Halogenated Solvents, etc), and the other chemicals (Acids, Bases, Corrisives, poisionouses, etc...), I have to bulk them with like substances, to be sent away, we get some interesting stuff, like I had some organic peroxides one day, and some nitric acid the next. In Ft. McMurray, I will be what they call a field tech, I will be going to the collection sites and picking up the hazardous waste, sorting it, packing it, and sending it where it has to go.

The Dark Side of Will · Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:19 am

LMK if you run across and mono-methyl hydrazine or nitrogen tetroxide... :thumbleft:

Hypergols are what the REAL pyros play with...

Billybo455 · Post by **Billybo455** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:40 am

you'd be nuts not to take that job! go for it man!!!

Unsafe At Any Speed · Post by **Unsafe At Any Speed** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 1:26 pm

Paid transportation and housing plus that much an hour? Sounds like a pretty good deal. I have no idea what I make an hour, but that seems like a lot! As already mentioned, go for it and save up some money.

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:17 pm

Sounds like a wonderfully safe working environment.

p8ntman442 · Post by **p8ntman442** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:17 pm

Unsafe At Any Speed wrote: I have no idea what I make an hour.

I have a formula for figuring this out.

gross pay/total hours = $$/hr

general rule of thumb, $25/hr =$50k/year on a 9-5

The Dark Side of Will · Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:31 pm

52 weeks/yr * 40 hrs/week = 2080 hrs/yr

less 2 weeks vacation = 2000 hrs/yr

$$/hr * 2000 = $$/yr

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:32 am

Thanks for making me cry, Will

p8ntman442 · Post by **p8ntman442** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:58 am

The Dark Side of Will wrote:52 weeks/yr * 40 hrs/week = 2080 hrs/yr

less 2 weeks vacation = 2000 hrs/yr

$$/hr * 2000 = $$/yr

your missing some units.

The Dark Side of Will · Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:10 am

I figured the units on the conversion factor would be obvious. :scratch:

Always nice to know my math gets checked around here :thumbleft:

Dirty Sanchez · Post by **Dirty Sanchez** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:55 pm

Yeah, vacation pay counts as part of your annual salary.