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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by csxengineer98 are you ready to work evey 8 hours...working on call at least 6 days aweek....and are you married or have a faimly...keep in mind...this job is very hard on the family life... not knowing when your going to work..or when your going to be home.... you ready to work in all kinds of weather with no way out of it untill the job is done.....you willing to traval to differnt terminels for work....you think you can stay awak on a train at 3am after only getting a few hours sleep in the first place...this job can be a nasty one at times.... im just giveing you some of the bad points up frount... working for the railroad is not all get on the train and ride..and get off and come home... it dose beat the hell out of sitting in an office for hours..and working in some kind of manufactoring job... hardly ever any managment looking over your shoulder...but sping on you in the weeds.....but every call is differnt..evey train is diffent... you might be going over the same railroad day in and day out..but its never the same trip... but you have to ask yourself the questions i put to you..and you have to awnsere yes to them all....especily the family and wife one if you have one... i was somewhat lucly...my wife met me while i was on the railroad..so she knew what it was like befor we got married... not saying that we dont have problems becouse of work once in a while...but it is realy hard for someone that comes from one field into the railroad workforce that has a family and/or a wife....one guy i work with his wife told him ..i dont care what shift you work...but find a reguler shift yard job...or find yourself a new wife....this guy worked 20 years in a mechinshop and it closed up and moved to mexico...so going to the on call never knowing when your home lifestyel was to much for his wife...and it is for alot of them.... if you want to talk 1 on 1 about the job..feel free to talk to me on Yahoo IM ..my handle is csxengineer2001 csx engineer [/quote]
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