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Also, you'll make 2-3x the average salary in the US. TANSTAAFL

• sevensor 9y ago
  True that. It's still a backup plan if I'm ever really desperate for money. It's brutal if you have a family though.
• avs733 9y ago
  Honestly its not worth it. I know that is a privileged position, but the quality of life was so bad that I just ended up with a ton of savings that I used to take 6 months off and travel and decompress/deal with all the mental health stuff resulting from the job after I quit.
• macNchz 9y ago
  There are quite many routes to making 2-3x the national average salary that don’t require 24/7 pager duty. I’ve done on-call rotations, but being ‘on’ nonstop sounds like torture and a recipe for burnout.
  • avs733 9y ago
    I did 11 months of 24x7. My managers were so normed to it they actually documented it. No one seemed to notice my contract called for that time to be compensated. After I ended my employment they seemed shocked when I asked for that compensation to be paid out. They then denied that I had been 'actually on call' (note: managers, don't lie to your HR department - especially the investigations people). Thankfully I had documented all the listings of me being on call and pointed out that their policy required an on call engineer to be available and noted that no one else in the group was certified to be on cal. We settled before I had to take it to court.
    • sevensor 9y ago
      Yikes, you were the only person in your group who was competent to answer pages? We had several, and there were a number of factors that determined who would get paged first for a given issue, including whether you were in a fight with manufacturing. (Don't ever get in a fight with people whose job description includes paging you at odd hours.) I usually got woken up a couple times a week. Sounds like you had it a lot worse.