Having a finish time would be great, problem is in a factory/warehouse your usually clock watching all day waiting for it.
bald bloke:
elsa Lad:
Rather drop my plums in some boiling water than work in a factoryDitto
Room in the pot for mine as well 
Put it this way !
Middle of summer nice and sunny out side and you’ve got a slack day so parked up still being paid enjoying sun 
Or stuck inside a hot factory noisy machines going all the PPE or health and hygiene stuff on
MMM hard choice NOT !
I’ve worked in a polystyrene factory middle of summer that had a 4ft live steam main running down centre and the machines that use it , Zb hot
Beetlejuice:
No way does Rover bloke get £500 in the bank a week .He must be a right track rat banging in the hours .Been and done it.Its great for banter and no real stress ,Then it gets you suicidal ,Its like ground hogs day after three years .
So to answer the question ,Driving is better but I’m now considering 3.5 T for a parcel firm as they pay more than some artic drivers get .
There’s a reason a 3.5t might get more than an artic driver, and soon, you might find out why.
I’d never work in a factory unless its some small family based firm.
Two exceptions being Ford Dagenham and New Holland both are near me and pay extremely well.
I’d definitely work in a warehouse though. I was a forklift driver for a parcel firm and had a laugh; I could easily see myself doing some forklift work for a pallet firm in the near future with maybe some part time driving.
Worked for 10 yrs in a textile factory before it moved to Sri Lanka. Not to bad at all to be honest, yeah the money wasnt the best but getting paid time and half after 8 hrs and not being expected to do over 8 hrs instead of being expected to do a normal 13hr day. Had a life and was nice to be fair. Would I go back to factory work, quite possibly, except nearly everyone now does 4 on 4 off which isnt for me,plus the money isn`t enough.Now if someone in the area offered me 600+ a week for 40 hr factory job, that would be a different story.
Dav1d:
Beetlejuice:
No way does Rover bloke get £500 in the bank a week .He must be a right track rat banging in the hours .Been and done it.Its great for banter and no real stress ,Then it gets you suicidal ,Its like ground hogs day after three years .
So to answer the question ,Driving is better but I’m now considering 3.5 T for a parcel firm as they pay more than some artic drivers get .
There’s a reason a 3.5t might get more than an artic driver, and soon, you might find out why.
I’m not worried about getting off my fat backside 100 times a day though.I would rather knock 100 doors than sit in an NDC or RDC under detention conditions … 
Done office, factory and driving jobs so far…if you think office politics can be bad, try factory politics. Worked in one with on average 10 middle aged women and as the only guy there, that was “interesting” (and not in a good way).
However if it was somewhere like Seimens - beyond the H&S stuff which is rather extreme, the job can be very very easy, mostly watching a computer do its thing.
Courier deliveries, kindof sounds interesting but not for £7.50 / hour.
I just had a flick through factory jobs on indeed and cvlibrary .
Most factory jobs are now £7.50 ph? What a joke lol.
Done both. Made redundant from my ops manager’s job on the parcels in the mid-1990’s, so took a job at Marshalls Hoveringham factory making concrete drainage channels, mainly because it was on my doorstep and I was pretty skint. New operation, installing and setting up the machine was interesting but once it got to actually running it the job became mind-numbingly boring, not helped by a foreman who was so far up the manager’s backside you could barely see his feet. Every time we met the production bonus quotas the management revised them upwards. Quit after about eight months, went FLT driving in Derby, then back into the transport business as an agency consultant and finally back on the road in 2002.
Would be very hard pushed to consider factory work ever again. Or an office job come to that. For all that modern trucks are boring to drive, at least they’re a ■■■■ sight easier.
Beetlejuice:
Dav1d:
Beetlejuice:
No way does Rover bloke get £500 in the bank a week .He must be a right track rat banging in the hours .Been and done it.Its great for banter and no real stress ,Then it gets you suicidal ,Its like ground hogs day after three years .
So to answer the question ,Driving is better but I’m now considering 3.5 T for a parcel firm as they pay more than some artic drivers get .
There’s a reason a 3.5t might get more than an artic driver, and soon, you might find out why.
I’m not worried about getting off my fat backside 100 times a day though.I would rather knock 100 doors than sit in an NDC or RDC under detention conditions …
100 ? Is it a part time job ?