It's a job. Nothing glamorous about working on-call 24/7 365. - Conductor Union Pacific Employee Review

Unless you are able to hold a regular job, you will be working on-call all the time. Of course most of the time the phone will ring in the middle of the night which is no fun. You will miss your kids birthdays , games , and your wife. Most longtime railroaders have been divorced. The railroad ranks up there with the military when it comes to divorces. So all that money you might make, will be called for. You will be a broke s.o.b. with no life when it's all said and done.