Does anyone here know about working for Amtrak? Should I try

>>17874333
Hey desu if you have a shot and already seem to like it and have the senpai connection.

Be humble, it's a good career and sustains you for life. My family has worked in the freight and international privatized transportation industries for four generations. I am partially blind so obviously I can't work those jobs.

You make your own commitments. And yeah aging is pretty painful on the body even if you just sit on your ass till the day you die.

Traveling between states, working with a team, starting young and staying humble knowing what your senpai has earned and provided to you with their lifes work as a sobering backdrop to how you respect the job is a blessing.

You can also always just try, end up failing hard at it, and just going back to your communications focus, or have learned enough from this opportunity to contribute to your future.

Everything is experience, but sometimes you get lucky and land a decent job that makes sense and keeps you fed while meaning something too.

I'm 25 years old. I sound like an old ass man, but I'm not lucky or able bodied/minded enough to hold a working career. But god even I would love to be considered okay enough to have a simple realistic job that could last and make me feel human. More human that my online certificates and 4chan...

>>17874333
I would recommend doing it, but keep in mind you would probably be throwing out your chances of getting a white collar job later on, but from the sound of it you aren't cut out from one of those anyways.

Do you have a job right now? What kinds of jobs are you looking for?

>>17874424
What do you mean I don't sound like I'm cut out for a white collar job? I mean, I could probably do something in the white collar field. What's the point of having a college degree then? Figured if you had a college degree you had a better shot of getting a white collared job. I didn't think you could get a white-collared job without one, also I really don't know what kind of jobs I'm looking for.

That's the issue, I don't have a lot of motivation and don't know what I want to do. I'm not even entirely sure what I can do with my degree besides sales, and even then I'm not really interested in sales. I'm currently working part-time at an antique shop making like $8/hour, I looked up where most of the jobs at Amtrak pay at least $14/hour if not higher. A lot of them pay close to $20/hour even so I could be making at least double what I'm making now and working 40 hours a week while earning benefits.

I don't think that's bad money at all, I'd making probably at least $40,000 a year and that's a lot of money to me considering I don't have kids and I'd only have to support myself.

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>>17874420
>have the senpai connection
>staying humble knowing what your senpai has earned
Jesus Christ man, is typing the extra three letters really that much effort?

>>17874956
Take the job. It seems like it's almost guaranteed. Since it's a union job the odds of ever having to find another job are very slim. Both of these things are hard to come by today for a decent job. Read those lines over again.

While the salary is only okay, even if you hit $20/hour, like you mentioned for someone your age that's pretty good money as a single 20 something guy plus benefits are good. Especially the retirement end of benefits which you'll be thankful you started early.

I'm older than you but I almost had to move across the country for my job and I would have done it. Building a career is an important aspect to growing. Sometimes it means making difficult choices and doing things you're unfamiliar with. So just do it. Worst case scenario you don't like it after awhile and you quit.