What would you do?

Ok, here is the situation.
DH hates his job and doesn't want to stay there for the rest of his life. He is a supervisor in a trucking company and there is no pension, little room to move up and all around it's not such a great company to work for. Right now he works the later shift and usually comes home around 8 sometimes later. He is making decent money, but not that great.

My brother can get him a job in his company working as an end of day operator but the job is in White Plains. It's about an hour and a half drive each way and he would be working an overnight shift. Starting salary is about what he is making now but they have good benefits from what I hear. He would like to get into another field so this would be a foot in the door but it's a long drive which in bad weather is worse and he wont be home at night. He used to work nights and it really stunk.

So, what would you do if you were in this situation?

sounds like her would be even more miserble with the comute then he is now.
An hour and a half with any traffic ( which would be most days) will be a 3 or even 4 hour drive.. He will be more miserable and making less money cause gas prices are crazy..
JMO

that is so hard... I am a big believer in you have to love, or at least like what you do....

Can he try to find another opportunity closer to home??? If he takes this new job will he be even more miserable with that commute???

i hope this kind of helps...

Personally, I wouldn't want to sleep without DH every night. But is he really interested in the other job? I would always support him in anything he really wanted, but I would not think my DH would be happy doing that commute every day.

i guess my question to you is- are you willing to move and how is your job situation? did you just buy a house or are you able to easily change your residence?

also - where on LI are you now?

fyi my fh is buying a house with me in stamford CT. fh works in new hyde park and will commute from stamford until he finds a decent job.
stamford is about 7 miles north from white plains and about 33 miles from new hyde park so depending on your location, it may not be that bad.

Right now we live in Selden so I think that it is 60 something miles one way. We just signed a lease so we are here at least for a year. We would be willing to move west more on the island but we don't move further than that because family is here.
I think that he would be working one of three shifts, 6pm-2am, 8pm-4am or 12am to 8am so he may not hit traffic all the time.
The company would pay for training so he would want to take computer classes and hopefully move into another position there. The only thing is if he did that he would be on a day shift and would definately hit traffic both ways.
He has gone on so many interviews but because he wants to change fields and he doesn't have experience they all paid so little.
I don't know.

Well maybe by the time he would go to a day shift you could move further west and traffic won't be as bad. I think if he wants to make a change that badly and has little experience he should take this opportunity offered to him.


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