Actually, I’m working all the holidays this season:
Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
New Year’s Day
I’m also working Black Friday, Boxing Day, And New Year’s Eve, but those aren’t holidays at my place of business.
I get paid about $1400 a holiday (maybe more for (New Year’s Day, as I should be getting a raise at the beginning of the year). So do you all think it’s worth it? I’m not rich enough to not appreciate the money, but definitely feel like I’m wasting a bit of my life at work.
Only you can make that determination. Congratulations on providing for yourself and/or your family.
You're getting paid $1400 a day on four occasions so that others can take a day off? You're a good man. The world needs more people like you.
Are you working in the retail big box stores? I would assume you're an associate but 1400/ day seems a tad bit too high for a customer service job. What other industries would require one to work all major holidays? My best guess would be a job in the hospital, probably a nurse. Anyways, congrats on providing for your family.
Not necessarily poor life decisions. My father is a Doctor and usually had to work Christmas and/or Thanksgiving/Easter/July 4. Someone in the group did, so the guys would rotate holidays.
It does make you think twice about becoming a Doctor though when you grow up with it.
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I get paid about $1400 a holiday (maybe more for (New Year’s Day, as I should be getting a raise at the beginning of the year).
Do you realize how many people work these same days for a fraction of the money? There are privates in the Army pulling 24-hour duty shifts from 0900-0900 every one of those days all around the world and they only make about $1730 per month or about $58 per day.. You make almost as much money from those four days alone as they will earn in three months. And let's not forget those who spent those holidays in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 20 years. From personal experience, there is nearly a 100% chance that a base will take rocket and/or mortar fire on American holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4, you name it, it's a day to get fired upon. What about the police patrolling the streets those days, or the firefighters who need to respond to fires from candles accidentally starting fires, etc? Do they make $1400 per day? Nope. And as other posters already mentioned, hospital workers are on duty 24/7/365.
You may miss your holiday time but you are certainly making serious money for your work those days.
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