Poll of the Day > Would you take a traveling job for twice your current income (details in body).

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• Same job, you just go place to place instead of staying at one place.
• 100% travel.
• Move to random place around america every 3-5 months with you able to veto jobs.
• Paid for transport/hotel/apartment/food/rental at each location.
• Health insurance not included
• Employer sponsored retirement account not included
• Able to take as much time off between jobs as you want, but lose 2% of your income each week you do that.

In other words, the equivalent of a healthcare locum tenens.

Have a few friends with travelling jobs,... one a flight stewardess, the other a locomotive engineer.....they seem rather happy about it.

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blu posted...

Health insurance not included

That's a deal-breaker.

Plus I own a lot of stuff so traveling between hotels would kinda suck.

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Nope, I'm too old for that kind of shit.

No, I wouldn't work for no health insurance or retirement.

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2 x 0 = 0.

I would not take a job for no income.

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Do they pay for your family to move with you each time, or just you alone?
If you veto a job, how long do you have to wait for another option? And are you paying for your own rent/food/etc... during that interim?
The pay really stays the same no matter what location you're in?
What hours do you have to work?

Zeus posted...

That's a deal-breaker.

Plus I own a lot of stuff so traveling between hotels would kinda suck.

It does complicate it, especially with a SO.

streamofthesky posted...

Do they pay for your family to move with you each time, or just you alone?
If you veto a job, how long do you have to wait for another option? And are you paying for your own rent/food/etc... during that interim?
The pay really stays the same no matter what location you're in?
What hours do you have to work?

Just you.
A couple of weeks, if that. You aren't paid when you're not working.
You are paying for yourself during the interim.
Pay varies, but stays approximately 2x.
40h standard, start time varies between 7-10 based on location and lasts 8ish h, get paid at 1.5x (meaning 3x) for overtime.
Free to take time off between locations, you just aren't being paid for those weeks.

ok...can your family live with you, though?
Maybe I worded it poorly. Or is the places they put you up in only big enough for like 1 person to live?

Having to be away from family constantly is the instant deal-breaker. It seems absurd to have 3-5 month stints, over and over, and severe punishment for spacing them out much (lose 2% pay...permanently? each week you take off), without letting people move their families out with them.
Not even the military does that shit.

tbh, my brother was friends with a couple who were both traveling nurses so they'd use one partner's stipend for lodging and save the rest. It probably wasn't a bad arrangement, especially since they were young and it was an easy way to see the country.

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No.

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As a single man I would have but with a wife and kids I couldn't

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Probably not. I voted no.
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If I had no kids, yeah.

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I get paid too little for my job right now, and I don't have a car, so no.

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Doesnt sound like you're really valued at this "job"


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No. It can be an enriching experience but since I volunteer as a Scout leader, such a job would make it very challenging/impossible to continue as a volunteer. Volunteering remotely via email, texting, or phone calls during this COVID-19 situation does not quite have the same impact in my opinion.

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Whether or not anyone here would or wouldn't is kind of immaterial.

The real answer for you depends on what your current living circumstances are, and how tied you feel you are to your current residence. Someone who is settled in to a house they own where they live with a spouse and/or kids, and potentially older relatives they have to help take care of, are going to be much less comfortable with a job like that than a younger slacker who owns almost nothing beyond the shirt on their back and who can't afford a place of their own in the first place.

Presumably you fall somewher between those two extremes, so it's kind of up to you to decide where you fall on the line.

Also, the value of "twice your current income" depends almost entirely on what you're making now, how much you've got saved, and how much you owe in debt. For some people double income isn't all that major a jump, or isn't enough to make up for what they see as the inconvenience that counterbalances it. For others, doubling their income could make a huge difference, or is simply yet another plus added to what they already see as benefits (some people like to travel, others hate it).
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