Hey all,
I took a job back in October because the job was in the same state I live in (Indiana) and paid much more than where I was. I moved up to Northwest Indiana about a year ago and started as a data entry clerk making $12 an hour at a trucking company. By the time August came around, I moved over to being a dispatcher due to one of the dispatchers quitting. I took it because it paid $13.50 an hour and much better hours overall.
The communication was absolutely terrible but I powered through it. The job did offer health insurance but I was still on Kentucky Medicaid (where I was living) so I didn't take it. My current employer reached out to me on Indeed and had me come in for an interview for a dispatcher in the town I was living in.
The environment is much more calmer there. They offered me $18.50 an hour starting(I bring $580 home a week after taxes, $740 before), with keeping my 6am-2:30pm shift which is fantastic to me. I have learned a lot in the two months even though I consistently mess up due to my two week training back in October before my coworker went on vacation (and is still on vacation for two months). The other guy I work with makes me feel like a dumb piece of shit calling me out on every mistake I make and why I can't multitask as fast as the other guy (trainer who went on vacation that's been working there for 4 years and is also one of the bosses' son. Family business I work for)
I took the job because I liked the higher pay, I have never paid more than $13.50 an hour in my life. I never asked about benefits when starting when I should have. Turns out there are no benefits at all.
When open enrollment started, I applied for health insurance and the bare minimum insurance was $310 a month! That was with a deductible of $8,500. I just felt that was an absurd amount as a healthy 32 year old woman that doesn't smoke.
My boyfriend and I talk here and there about getting married because it breaks his heart that I don't have insurance now because it's just at an absurd price. Even if I picked up a second part time job, that premium would probably go up to $350+ a month if I got it through the marketplace.
Anyways, I really hate being a dispatcher and it's not a job for me overall. The guy I work with makes me feel dumb and useless, "I'm just trying to teach you to be better and manage everything better" even though I do practically everything.
I have 3 years experience in data entry and about a year being a billing specialist. I prefer being in the financial field overall. I have an Associate's Degree that I received back in 2016 that specialized in Finance. (I did awful in Managerial Accounting, but exceled in Financial Accounting, Marketing and Management classes).
I have no idea what to do. Should I go back to making $12 an hour doing menial data entry/office work that has benefits? I do work in Chicagoland so the jobs are here.....as is all the competition.
Thank you for reading my wall of text. Happy New Year everyone!
Submitted January 01, 2018 at 07:27AM by LollerskateDJ http://ift.tt/2lvX1kA
