Sounds great to me. It is paying nearly double of my last job and a lot more hours. On top of that, you get to work nights only! I don't really see the bad side. Sure, the pay isn't what you would want to raise a family on, but for a single person living with his parents, it isn't bad.

Take it. 10 USD is pretty good.

If the hours are worrying you thenfind a way to get enough sleep while still being awake for some time. My father tried sleeping for about 3 hours a day and he does very well during the day. Maybe you should try that on one of the weekends.

Wow. That sure kicks my job's ass... I get about $100-130 a week and I end up working around 20 hours. You should definately take it.

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Plus they don't bitch about your speed in the daytime.

I wish I had your boss. Mine doesn't seem to realize that guiding customers to an item takes time. My daytime plus is the ladies, they're generally prettier than the stock crew. ;)

And your job is? I'm going to take a shot and guess something in the advertising buisness?

I think its ok as a part time job. But as always you need to be thinking about a serious carrer. I dont know how old you are but you shouldnt plan on doing that for a long time.

Heh, yeah, when I worked days I worked with only ladies. When I worked night crew, I worked with 10x more men and I was only one of two people there (out of like 30) who didn't have a severe drug problem, coming into work all hopped up.

Career? One of the big trends with the current generation is to separate our your job and what defines your life. Like all the web cartoonists who don't make much money at that so they work regular jobs, but if you ask them what they do, they'll tell you they're a cartoonist.

I have what is pretty much my dream job... data entry with performance-based pay, meaning that the faster you can type, the more money you make. Since I am the Incredible Hulk of typing (including the fact that the madder I get, the faster I type), I can earn some serious money... well, serious considering that it's neither physical labor nor skiled labor. Factoring in my monthly bonus with my hourly pay level, I'm earning 25 cents a minute for... typing stuff.

That in itself isn't why it's my dream job, though. It's my dream job because it requires maybe like 10% of my mental faculties, leaving the other 90% of my mind to do whatever.

A job like this isn't a career, by any stretch of the imagination... but since my chosen career requires vast stretches of time I can spend in uninterrupted thought and won't actually pay my bills for several more years, this job is perfect for the mean time.

And the company I work for offers flexible hours (meaning, if you're scheduled for 40 hours a week, you can show up any 40 hours. They're not picky that it be 9-5 every day, Monday through Friday.), and while they're very strict abou things like time use (that is, making sure the time they're paying you to work is spent working), they allow headphones. I have a broadband capable phone for internet radio, and a Zen Vision for massive amounts of music, audiobooks, and movie sound tracks (for movies I know so well that I can get the effect by listening to them without actually seeing the screen).

Now, a lot of people... like my former high school teachers that I run into sometimes, or possibly some of my relatives, wonder what the hell I'm doing in a zero-advancement, entry-level position... because they're stuck in the idea that the only road to success is by "climbing the corporate ladder", which, incidentally, usually requires a college degree... something I walked away from years ago.

No matter how society advances, we will always need people to stock shelves, dig ditches, etc. I can hope we'll always need data entry clerks, but a lot of that work could be eliminated if companies simply updated their processes a bit. My first data entry job consisted of taking fields from one database and typing them into another... fields of raw text. I was so struck by the absurdity of what I was doing that I told my bosses the techs were full of it when they said there was no way to automate it, and stuck by it until the company no longer needed me. :P

But anyways, the point is that society needs a lot more people doing "grunt work" than they need in "careers." The key is in recognizing that even if you're one of the "grunts", the way you choose to pay your bills doesn't define who you are or what your life is about.