I live near seattle, so cost of living is a bit higher than some places. I pay 1000 a month for rent, for a duplex, my girlfriend pays half. I get medical, dental, vision etc for around 87 dollars a month from my company.
Also it's hard not to love a job, where every day if you want, you can go home, sleep, go to the gym, go pay bills etc for about 4 hours. I have a job where I go to patient homes, and our routes are quite small most of the time, but have to be ready to go somewhere when a patient is in need or just out of the hospital, so most of the time there is lots of downtime, with about once a week where there is nothing but work to do all day.
Lots of people who have had my job, move straight up to management after a few years, my boss had my job, the area manager had my job, and from what I can tell, they make 60-100k a year. My employer will pay for my schooling to become a Respiratory Therapist. The only problem is, once I'm done with the classwork side of it. I'd have to take time off work to get all the clinical hands on learning done. I'm not sure they'd still pay if I wasnt putting in atleast 20 hours. The schools within 100 miles of me, don't offer the nighttime clinical hand on classes.
I must go now, Going into work early today, I can get 10 hours of overtime a week, so my non clocked out lunch and getting to work an hour early really helps up the pay.
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