Sunday July 29th, 2018

The exercise:

As promised yesterday, today we write about: pros and cons.

Probably my last in-post contribution for the foreseeable future. I'll try not to disappoint.

Mine:

So I've got a new job, just not the one I was initially hoping/aiming for. Let's have a little look at how things ended up, from my point of view.

Pro: I've got a job! A permanent, year round job!

Con: Unlike the utility worker position, it's not full time. That means no benefits.

Con: I'm missing out on the final two months of my cleaning position contract, which is a higher paying, more hours per pay period job.

Pro: No more ten hour days. No more four on, four off. In a typical week I'll work two six hour days, two four hour days, and one eight hour day.

Con: Again, that means fewer hours per paycheque.

Con: At a lower pay rate than what I'm making at Public Works. Can you see where my hesitation was in applying for this job yet?

Pro: The new job has a pay range and they're starting me at the top of it, so the pay cut is actually fairly minimal. I didn't find this out for sure though until they offered me the job.

Pro: With me working fewer hours, and on a consistent schedule, that means spending less money on babysitters and more time for Kat to book clients and promote her counselling business.

Con: It's a desk job for the most part, so I'll be fairly stationary (other than when I'm running programs with the kids, like floor hockey and basketball and whatever else they want me to do). No more walking around outside on nice days, working on my ta-aahhh, my um... fitness. Bicep curling garbage bags and stuff.

Pro: The weight room and gymnasium will be nearby on the five days a week I'll be working at the community centre. That means no excuses not to make use of them. I might even end up in better shape compared to working the cleaning job. Speaking of which...

Pro: No more cleaning public washrooms.

And... game over. But also...

Pro: The community centre has always felt the most like home to me out of the four locations within town I've worked. I like the people there a lot. This is where I'd rather be working, and I'll be doing what I'd rather be doing. That, really, was what settled things in the end for me.

Today was day eight. Only seven more work days to go before the switch.