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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snake" data-source="post: 5495714" data-attributes="member: 7051"><p>When I first got hired my supervisor which was a great guy told me that he was going to start training me for two weeks on a operator job that was going to come open and that I would get it.  It was a top level job and I was at the lowest pay just above in hire which was several dollars less than the job an hour he wanted me in but in all reality I probably made as much if not more than the top operators because I worked a lot of overtime . My position was straight days and the position that he wanted me in was shift work . I respectfully declined his offer and told him my children were young and I'd like to stay on days for my wife and them , he understood but said that's a lot of money difference. Well any way I managed to select the jobs I wanted to stay on days and did so for 40 years and only topped out probably the last 10 because most day jobs where a lower scale except maintenance but for almost 30 years I held the position just under top pay . The last 8 I made top pay on shift which is aleast $ 10 , 000 more at the same scale for days because of the built in overtime . In a nutshell I gave up tremendous amounts of money to try and stay on days and  in doing so I didn't miss any of my kids functions.  Money is not everything as long as you can survive and we did ok by me staying on days , our company paid pretty good wages it's just I could have made much more . It effected my pension and my SS quite a bit . One guy that worked almost identical to my tenure in years . He was hired 2 months before me and retired three months before I did but he chose the money route by going on shift about a year or so after he was hired . His pension in monthly installments was about 3 to 400 hundred dollars more than mine and his SS was about 300 dollars more so I even lost out there but if I had it to do over I wouldn't change a thing. I would have even stayed on days the rest of career but I had no choice as my job along with others was done away with when they converted to the other process . We was offered a good severance if you call it that if we wanted to retire early and it would have been great had I been about 3 to 4 years older . It really worked out good for some that was close to retirement any way.  The money they were giving equaled one and a half years pay but the kicker was you couldn't draw unemployment or take another position anywhere until that time was up . All in all like I said thinking back I would have still chose my path taking the less money but being home every night and weekends except for rare instances of being called in . Money you have to have to survive but I can sincerely say I don't have the "love of money sin" 😂</p></blockquote><p></p>

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