I want a busier job
My current job is nice in that it has cushy benefits and I get paid enough to take vacations, but I think that I am seriously starting to become lazy because of it.
If I added up all the time spent actually working in the span of my eight hour shift then the total would hover near three hours. The rest of that time I spend either reading a book or watching Netflix / surfing the internet. And I'm just tired of it all. I want to be doing something useful and feel as though I am a valued employee.
There is an opening in another department at the university (which means I would keep my benefits) but it is at the HelpDesk and I'm not sure that should I pursue a position with them as I have NO interest in remaining in that area of IT for the long-term. The position would offer two rather large pros, though. 1) Monday-Friday @8:00am-5:00pm (I currently work Tuesday-Saturday @12:00am-8:00am), and 2) a bare minimum $2.00/hour raise.
The pros of staying where I am are, 1) Possible promotion to the daytime shift within a year or two (Salary, baby, no more of this hourly crap!), and 2) being able to use the free-time to work on school stuff when I'm taking classes again.
I just have no idea what I should do.
In other news my doctor has decided she wants to try and kill me by prescribing me Metformin. I haven't had anything good and fulfilling to eat in about two weeks due to the, uh, side-effects of the drug. But, hey, starvation does work as a weight loss option, amirite?
If I added up all the time spent actually working in the span of my eight hour shift then the total would hover near three hours. The rest of that time I spend either reading a book or watching Netflix / surfing the internet. And I'm just tired of it all. I want to be doing something useful and feel as though I am a valued employee.
There is an opening in another department at the university (which means I would keep my benefits) but it is at the HelpDesk and I'm not sure that should I pursue a position with them as I have NO interest in remaining in that area of IT for the long-term. The position would offer two rather large pros, though. 1) Monday-Friday @8:00am-5:00pm (I currently work Tuesday-Saturday @12:00am-8:00am), and 2) a bare minimum $2.00/hour raise.
The pros of staying where I am are, 1) Possible promotion to the daytime shift within a year or two (Salary, baby, no more of this hourly crap!), and 2) being able to use the free-time to work on school stuff when I'm taking classes again.
I just have no idea what I should do.
In other news my doctor has decided she wants to try and kill me by prescribing me Metformin. I haven't had anything good and fulfilling to eat in about two weeks due to the, uh, side-effects of the drug. But, hey, starvation does work as a weight loss option, amirite?