My last job was my favorite job I've ever had. Great boss, good pay, paid winters off, leading crews, lots of people I liked. But the hours sucked the rest of the year, and it was fucking hard work.
My new job is union, pay isn't as good, but the benefits (health/retirement) are fantastic. Also, it's a 37.5 hour work week. I don't have paid winters off, but I have plenty of PTO, sick, and I can accrue comp time. No more overnights, and the work is a lot less physical.
If I were you, I'd take whatever job offer you get and try and leverage it for a raise and ask for the opportunity to move up. With all the training you said you've been doing, it's obvious they know you know what you are doing. They may want to keep you around.
Ages ago, when I was in the army, my best friend couldn't get promoted because his arms wouldn't straighten. It was a super dumb issue which prevented him to properly do a push up, and because of that he could t pass the PT test.
Finally months and months of doctors and paperwork, he receives a waiver and is getting promoted.
Our commander is giving a little speech about follow through and perseverance or something, and he says, "and because of his funny arms"
I immediately blurted out, "Yeah, they're really humourous."
In a crowd of 40 people, I think one person got it. I still think it was my best joke I ever cracked at a moments notice.
I went to university, and I currently work at university. Unless you know what you want to do, and that absolutely requires a degree, and you are 100% certain to get a job in that field, then go to university.
Otherwise, go learn a trade and join a union. By the time your friends are graduating college, you'll already be well established in your career and making much more than they likely will straight out of school.
The income ceiling is lower without a degree, but you get there much faster, have great benefits, and get to retire a lot earlier.
Also, there is nothing saying that you can't eventually go to university and get a degree.
There's some things imperial is just better at. Like temperature. 100 f is hot, but literally not even half as hot as 100 c. We as people can perceive imperial temperatures a lot better than metric.
I think a lot of people are over thinking this. I don't think anyone would say next Saturday meaning this Saturday at all. You'd just say Saturday.
Like, "I'm going to see dune 2 Saturday." There is no need to clarify which Saturday it's going to be if you don't muddy it by trying to qualify it needlessly.
So next Saturday should always be the Saturday after this upcoming one.
I, unfortunately, do most of my grocery shopping at Walmart. And, since my local store has offered curbside pick up, I have picked that option.
I'm sure I could probably get pretty close to the cap, but it would take so much time and effort to go through all my orders and figure up how much I've spent on that stuff, it almost isn't worth it
And what is the maximum?