I don't like it...at all. I've been here about 1.5 years - it used to be alright, then I was given a much higher workload & much more responsibility with no pay increase (maybe they're waiting for my 90day review..? Eh, that would've been three weeks ago..so maybe not..). I did get an excellent annual review in February, along with a 4% raise...which, since our health insurance plan changed & my cost went from $9.xx/mo to $73.50/mo, gave me a net pay increase of less than $10/mo. w00t.

Not to mention that one of our competitors' base pay for my position is ~$6k/yr higher than what I make, which doesn't help things.

Sooo, yeah. I have decided to move to Maine - it's closer to my family, and there are many more job opportunities. If I give my notice tomorrow, I'll have a week off, work for the PD on the weekend, have another week off, then work for the PD again..plus I have about ten days of unused vacation time that I can either take as vacation or take in a check...so I have plenty of time to find a new job. It's difficult finding a job in a different state while working full-time...soo, this'll make it easier!

Anyway, yeah.


Cliffs:
NT.

Uh, where are you know to make that conclusion?

Where am I now..? Northern NH.

Why were you in this so long if you could have had $6k more for roughly the same job?

I've decided to quit your job too.

Because what I had is the best I was able to get...the other bank doesn't have an opening for my position.

Did you ever go to your boss about the $6k more thing?

Yeah. It's not my boss that's the issue...it's the boss's boss. I don't particularly care for the job either...though another $6k/yr would help. Though I'm under the commercial banking umbrella now..used to be consumer..but still - my pay range is $10-15/hr, and I'm at $10.40. From my experience with this place so far, a 30% raise just isn't going to happen. The record annual raise at my branch is 4%..

I need an overall change of pace, too - living in a rural 'hardly-anybody-here' setting is getting old.

I thought you were a police officer...

Shush Freelancer! He's an undercover cop posing as a banker/nerd
Geez ><

Maine, huh? Do you know where at? I'm half an hour away from portland. It'd be interesting to know another massassian that matters lives nearby. (read: not ZULLY )

You would know wouldn't you? You blurted it out last and wound up DEAD.

Part-time.



Whereabouts?

come on man, you gotta love NH! so much forest; you can have a lot of fun with firearm propellant and metal tubing

edit: oops, just read the police officer part

i grew up in sunapee/new london/lebanon, where in NH are you?

How in the gee golly Christ does your health costs go up 773%?

Well, minimum wage is going up this week. By 70 cents!

So the worst you can do now is $5.85 an hour.

I'm in Whitefield - right on the border between Coos & Grafton county.

I do love NH...but I think I can handle Maine.



Apparently they decided it was too expensive? I don't freakin' know..but it pissed me right off..


Edit: So, it is done. My last day is August 10.

A word of advice; don't quit until you have an actual offer from another company. Its far easier to find a job when you are employed.

I would never leave the state if there was no sales tax.

/me adds JLee to the list.

I live in a quaint li'l town called Pownal. Barely anyone has heard of it even around here, so I'd be surprised if you can find it. I also live in Brunswick part time.

Yes and no. It's not easy going out for interviews/etc if you're working M-F.

And I am still employed..I've been working two jobs. I've never had a problem finding a job, either..and, come to think of it..I'm usually unemployed when looking for work. I tend to stay places for a while - I worked for Publix supermarkets for over three years (with a ~4mo break when we temporarily moved - long story)..I've been here since February of '06...so almost 18mo. I'm not a frequent job-hopper.

Also... more job opportunities? New Hampshire must be in a sad, sorry state in that case.

I have a new slogan to put on the "Welcome to Maine" sign.

"Welcome to Maine: May I take your coat?"

Northern NH = teh suck as far as job opportunity goes. Sure, I could move down south..Concord area/etc, but I'd just as soon move closer to my family (Norway). Housing is less expensive, too -- I was making a decent wage for the area ($10.40/hr)...1br apartments go for $500-600. I've seen 1br's in Norway for $450, $500, etc.

There are other assorted circumstances as to why moving is my best option, but that would entail a way-too-long story.

No income or sales tax in NH, though...I'm going to miss that.

Seeing this makes me want to bail out of CA so bad. $1,300 in the area I want to move to (closer to work). This is by far not a "rich community." I can find a place for $600 but it would be in the pits of San Diego County.

Yeah..that's ridiculous. Are salaries out there significantly higher to compensate?

I could make $40-50k/yr as a cop in Norway ME -- not bad when you consider I can get an apartment for $500...

Question:

Does working in a bank make you want to like, go crazy? I don't know if I'd be able to do a job that was 100% clerical.

That's one major reason I quit - I just can't take it anymore. I'm to the point where I really don't care...and that's not a good way to be a productive employee...I'm one of the more knowledgeable people there, and I get stuff done...but I have absolutely no drive to do it anymore. If I'm going to work in a bank, I'd prefer to be in constant direct contact with customers - not behind the scenes doing...you guessed it - paperwork. Ugh.

My closest friend works for the same bank, but in a different branch...if we couldn't email each other all day, I'm not sure how I'd be able to take it.

I don't think I'd want to deal with customers all day either.

I bet after about 6 months of it you'll want to strangle everyone that talks to you. :/

I thought you were going to be a cop? That looks like something you could do.

I get along just fine with most people - been here for almost 1.5 years...it wasn't bad at all until they gave me all the responsibilities of a commercial banker assistant...now it sucks. I used to be an overall branch backup - help the teller line, back up the personal banker, etc...basically a 'floater'. It was pretty spiffy for a while.

I already am a cop - I work part-time as a patrolman and fulltime at the bank. I'll probably pick up as many DUI/speed details as I can as soon as I'm done with the bank - that'll easily tide me over until I 1) get hired with the Sheriff's Office I applied with, or 2) find an alternative job if option 1 falls through.

Have you ever considered Private Security?

A guy fresh out of the Marines worked at my hub for about three months before he got a job with UPS for Security. Not sure about all the details, but I know it was alot of money. (He used his experience as a marine to get a management position)

I've seen a few security positions online, but I haven't really looked into it. I think they were low-level 'rent-a-cop' jobs, though - not something like you're talking about.

Yeah, the good private security jobs are mostly by referral or by being in the know.

You wouldn't gain much. The social security and health system there, as well as any taxes, are insane. You'd only gain something if all your daily expenses were made in another country that isn't Scandinavia. As an example; when I was in Norway 2 years ago, a pack of Camel cigarettes cost 3 times as much as over here, in Holland.

Dude, he means Norway, Maine.

What he said.

Poland, Paris, Naples, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Mexico, Peru, China...

Oh my god, you didn't just say that. I work with customers (usually pissed off ones) nearly my entire shift. I'm trying like hell to find a job that involves no human contact whatsoever. All faith I had in humanity is completely gone.

Err. Right. i r smurtz.

Good thing there are people like me who don't mind human contact, then..

What do you do for work?

I'd be rollin' high on $40K out there. I'm making $40K now and I'd be paycheck to paycheck.

What's worse is that our lead software engineer is leaving mid-August. He says he might need to find a roommate up in L.A. This guy makes like $80K!

Holy **** JG. 80k gets you a mini-mansion and whatever else you basically want in anytown, USA. That's nuts.

And JLee, I work at Hell-mart. I'm basically the guy who has to placate angry *******s who throw a fit when we won't let them return a $500.00 TV without a receipt or a pair of boots that look like they went through world war 2 without a receipt. I hate my job. I want to be a ****ing lumberjack or something.