Hoping to get some advice from you guys. I am an operator with 4 years experience mostly on excavator. I have a pretty comfortable job at the moment. I work at a dump site for contaminated soil and haz waste. The wages are good, benefits are great, I am basically my own boss as I run the dump site and it's steady all year round. In the 2.5 years I've been here I have never been sent home or forced to take a day off. The downside, I'm not learning anything new. It's an easy, very basic job. I recieve trucks, I mix soil, I load it out. There's no room for advancement or promotion. It's a dump site.
I was offered a job to work at a concrete recycling facility. They take concrete and turn it into new concrete products or crush it into aggregate products. I'd be operating a Hitachi 750, 700 and John Deere 670G. Yes, the 670 is their smallest machine. They also have 980 and 568 loaders. I'd be trained on loader and how to operate a crushing plant and wash plant. The benefits are better, the hours are better, its steady all year round but I have to take a pay cut. $3 less per hour. Reason for the lower wage is because of the loader and crushing training and they want me to take my time and get comfortable running bigger excavators. After 3 months they will review my performance and If I'm doing well, they will match my current wage but can't guarantee anything. Would this be a good move? I have never left a job for less pay and I have zero experience working in a concrete crushing facility. Not sure if this is a good long term career choice.
Sorry for the long post, any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I was offered a job to work at a concrete recycling facility. They take concrete and turn it into new concrete products or crush it into aggregate products. I'd be operating a Hitachi 750, 700 and John Deere 670G. Yes, the 670 is their smallest machine. They also have 980 and 568 loaders. I'd be trained on loader and how to operate a crushing plant and wash plant. The benefits are better, the hours are better, its steady all year round but I have to take a pay cut. $3 less per hour. Reason for the lower wage is because of the loader and crushing training and they want me to take my time and get comfortable running bigger excavators. After 3 months they will review my performance and If I'm doing well, they will match my current wage but can't guarantee anything. Would this be a good move? I have never left a job for less pay and I have zero experience working in a concrete crushing facility. Not sure if this is a good long term career choice.
Sorry for the long post, any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.