Total devotion may or may not pay your bills on time. You never know.
Pros
If you can't find any other job (in your own opinion) that is suitable to you, it is worth taking the chance to apply at the USPS. It pays well (in my opinion) and if you can grasp the multitudinous all of the information that you need to do the job within the time allowed(which is decided by your immediate supervisor, who you must click with), you will succeed in eventually(could take years) in getting a great permanent position for yourself.
Cons
Going through the (sometimes seeming long and tedious process of) test taking(easy if you practice memorizing or have a great memory), background check(easy) drug test(easy), answer your phone every time someone calls in case it is the USPS to bring you in for in for fingerprints/paperwork completion, then wait for a approval letter inviting you to come in for the interview(and get hired by interviewer), then go through orientation and training for 1 week and 1 day(mine started as early as 7:30 am), and then train @ another 3 days (starting at 9:30 am) with a permanent employee at the Post Office you are hired for. (Aside from all of that I want to Race is not obvious when we look at a person. (If you need to keep a current job, make sure you have the flexibility around it, because your training days for the 1st 3 days at the post office you are assigned to are never set in stone.) I finished the CCA driving riving training on a Fri., called the office that I was assigned to tell them that I was finished. My immediate super. had told me to come in on Wed. the next wk & then Wed. & Thurs. the following wk., asked for my phone number in case there were any changes. At that time, I’d tried to express the I needed to know when I was going to work(come in early), because I work at another job at night. I had no prob scheduling the job @ any schedule that she would give. (But she did not seem to think outside of the PO. She refused the thought of “Oh okay, you have bills to pay while you are waiting for the PO to get you more hrs.”) So I got with the manager at my other job and scheduled @ the schedule she gave. Wed next week came, I trained that day. At EOD (end of day)she told me to come in Thurs. the same week (when I had not scheduled @ it). So I ended up coming in to the PO on Thurs. as well when I had worked late on that Wed. after I had been at the PO as well that day. I was agreeable to come in & at the same time I was thinking, “God please let me be okay”, “It’s all up to you.”(I am 44 years old and that is not 22). So I went in Thurs. to the and at EOD, I was told to come in Fri.. I said Okay (again thinking, “God ……”). Then I went to wk at my 5-9 (ended up being 5-11). I had to go home, try to get at least 7 hours sleep. Well my body/pain said that I could not go to work and focus on learning Fri. morning at 7 AM when my alarm went off. I tried to have coffee and it just made me sicker. So I called the PO Friday and they let me go (my next scheduled day) Wed. after I had to chase down my paycheck both Mon. and Tues., after I had went to the union to get some uniforms Tues. I tried to communicate and get some understanding on the situation, but I did not succeed. I feel that they felt that I was supposed to drop my other job and hope I would make enough money to pay my bills without a schedule or some idea and hope that I would grasp the job and make a bet on the whole thing and then if I would have WON, great. If I would have LOST (they would not care either). I might have already told the other job(that I have already learned) goodbye by not showing up/ calling in over&over again getting completely fired from that job not to be able to return. Then I would not have a job to go back to. The training was for 3 days. She could not accommodate me for 3 days until I could get something scheduled for 3 days in a row at least in 1 week so I could tell my other job that I am going to have to work there less. If I am working for 3 days a week at $15 an hour I could arrange to not work as much or at all at my other job until I know I would have to eventually say I KNOW my PO job and tell the other job that I have to completely quit, because I figured that I would be working a lot of hours at the PO. But I did need that security. Q.Why are so many being hired? Q.Why do some people get an hour for lunch and others get only 30 minutes? Q.Why do I see a mail truck being followed by an auditor for 2 days in a row and then the following week on a Monday? (And when does that become work hazard?)
