Yep, 8.25 an hour, $1/hr raise in 30 days. The 5am-9am shift. THey kept asking me what shift I wanted, I figure I am a night person and a morning person, but the middle of the day really sucks.

 

hehehe... wow, that ain't even half of what I make at the post office!

Sorry, I was kinda surprised to see that big of a difference.

Good luck to ya anyways!

 

Yeah but how long have you been working at the post office?

I still get weekends off, and I can work the rest of the day anywhere else, I want to go apply at Checker, too bad they aren't hiring.

Its 1/3 of what my mom makes.

 

Any full-time openings?

 

No fulltime, but Wendy's up here is hiring, FT all shifts.

 

I figured it high time untroduced myself...


...well here goes it,
my names Dan....im 17 and still in school...only 1 semester away from the real world...in my off time i usually work my **** off at subway...it doesnt seem hard but it is....

aside from work and school, i dont do much, kinda lazy if you might say...

yea, its late right now and i cant think of much to say....im not a huge poster like my counterpart here who has like 20 ba-zillion more posts than me(i think its cause i have a job and he doesnt....until wednesday)....
...i guess if you have anything to ask me, itll be atleast a week before i reply...part laziness, part drunkenness(from sub fumes) have to deal with it...

well im off...

 

Heh, "the real world". It's funny you should say that. I remember back in high school that the teachers would say that to my class and there were always the few that picked a verbal fight with the teacher. I just sat back and thought; "yeah, so all these years of growing up on the farm and working my hind quarters off for next to nothing isn't the real world." I just kept my mouth shut and scribbled in my notebooks. The days went faster that way.

Though, there are a lot of people that have no clue about the "real world" when they leave high school. I know of a lot of people who are a lot older than I am and still haven't entered the "real world".

 

Hey Matt,

My son worked at "fredex ground" in Billings about three years ago on the 2pm to 7pm shift. He enjoyed the work but he said they get real nasty when you put a package on the wrong truck.

 

Yep thats where I work, but mine is the sunrise shift. I wanted the morning shift so when it gets to be summer, it will still be cool in the morning, I plan on working here until I can get the student loan stuff paid off. Its really nice being able to work this shift and still be able to work the rest of the day somewhere else, fulltime.

I got Fred Ex from a national guard pilot that had the patch on his flight suit. I thouhgt it sounded cool.

 

My name is Doug. I live in Colstrip, Montana, the nowhere capital of the world.

I grew up on fords, leaving the differential of my dad's 1959 1/2 ton 292 ford in the parking lot of a Shakey's pizza parlor in the late 60's. It went uphill from there.

I bought a 1979 ford f-150 brand new in 1979 and have been hooked ever since. I just recently purchased a 1978 f-150 4WD(Lariat package) with 84,000 original miles with everything still original except the wheels/tires.

If it weren't for "support groups" like this and e-bay and motorhaven, it would be very hard to keep a 25 year old truck in running condition.

 

Hehe... I like that... "support groups".

 

Hi Doug, nice to meet you. Coalstrip is over by Broadus isn't it? Your intro brings back memories - I drove my dad's pickups (drove the 56 GMC into the back of the 8N Ford tractor, drove the '64 F100 into a wet field and got stuck, etc) Bought my first new pickup - a '77 F100, plain jane 300/6 cyl, 3 spd on the tree. Drove that all over the country and traded it 12 years and 176,000 miles later for a used '86 that's in my gallery.

Dan, it's good to meet you as well! Hang in there with the job - if it wasn't difficult they wouldn't call it 'work'. Integrity means giving your best whatever you're doing, because it represents what and who you are. Back in the day I worked in an orchard packing apples, cleaned carpets/ashtrays/toilets in a men's clothing shop at the mall, picked mushrooms at a commercial cannery, etc. while going to school. Always tried to be the best apple packer/toilet cleaner/mushroom picker anybody ever saw. Hang tough and work hard - it'll pay off down the road.

 

Hello Tim, Colstrip is 30 miles south of Forsyth, off the interstate. It sounds like you were an apple pickin', toilet cleanin', mushroom pickin' son of a gun. I also did the fruit pickin' thing in Colorado where I grew up. It was kind of sad to see the orchard owners give their migrant workers a dollar for picking a bin of apples. If you've picked apples, you know how many apples that is. Thank You for the welcome.

 

Hey, I am from Jefferson, Iowa, my name is Matt Bednarik. I was raised around fords and working with them in everyway, i could not imagine having it anyother way. I have a 78 f100 i just purcahsed, sort of a project truck, has a lot of potential though. I think i treat my folks diesel better than what they do, but its that way when you love the truck. I think it is about time that we got our own forum, every one else did. I think my main hobby would have to be working on my truck, a 25 hour a day job. Second hobby would have to be mud bogging and breaking stuff, or getting my axle stuck 2 inches under mud in a trench, took a decked out superduty to pull me out. We had 2 chevys and a dodge hooked on, and then got 3 fords, and the ford came through. Hooked 2 fords on the front of the superduty, and he used his winch and pulled my 4x4 limo out of the trench. Hopfully we can figure out a get together for the local FTE folk, If any of you live around jefferson, Iowa feel free to drop a line in and maybe go boggin or something.

 

Welcome Matt. We'll always welcome you guys from Iowa.