Pros
Benefits, retirement (if you can endure 30 years). If all you want to do is work, this is your place. Bank some money for a couple of years and quit.
Cons
You’ll give this company 400-500 hours a month of your life. Your life will be taking naps in hopes that you’ll be rested when that 24/7/365 call comes in. You’ll be able to take two weekdays off a month without getting in trouble for availability. If you can work three full time jobs at $22 per hour you’ll make as much money as you can here and you’ll at least have a schedule. They need machines not humans to work here. Management in Ft Worth is beyond disconnected from the work force. There’s no future in railroading. Automation will take over. They’re trying to cut all jobs. You will not retire from here.