Just wandering if this time of year is good to change jobs ? Im a perm drive, doing days but i want to expand my horizons. I really wana crack at doing tramping. I dont want to go limping, for several reasons, main 1 being job security. I am not work shy at all, dont mind long hours, dirty or stressful work. After all, i have been a bin man for last 8 years, Any thoughts, opinons please.
Thanks
No time like the present…Give it a go if you fancy doing it…Plus if you like it…With xmas coming up…You can get some prezzies to make your time away more enjoyable…
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It might be different in your neck of the woods, but in my experience bin wagon work doesn’t involve long hours, is not stressful and is actually fairly clean these days.
Roymondo:
It might be different in your neck of the woods, but in my experience bin wagon work doesn’t involve long hours, is not stressful and is actually fairly clean these days.
To be fair where I work the guys leave the yard about 5:30am and normally don’t finish till 5-6pm.
Believe it or not most days we are maxing our hours, not through choice either.
Switching after Xmas is not a good idea as work drops off on the bleak season.
Switching before Xmas not as bad as above, but there’s a risk of you being taken on pre Xmas to take up the Xmas slack, then being laid off after Xmas when it goes quiet
peirre:
Switching after Xmas is not a good idea as work drops off on the bleak season.
Switching before Xmas not as bad as above, but there’s a risk of you being taken on pre Xmas to take up the Xmas slack, then being laid off after Xmas when it goes quiet
Thats what I am concerned about to be honest
I’m looking at doing something different too but am going to hang on until after Xmas probably February March time as things hopefully pick up after the January lull.
Might be good to stay on bins for now don’t people still give them a drink at xmas
Roymondo:
It might be different in your neck of the woods, but in my experience bin wagon work doesn’t involve long hours, is not stressful and is actually fairly clean these days.
Have to agree with you
H&S says this H&S says that,the only tiring “stressful” bit is dragging a bin to and from the pavement to the cart
theflyingdustman:
Believe it or not most days we are maxing our hours, not through choice either.
you’d fit in with tramping then. 
stay til feb/ march. 
put your feelers out now. 
Stay where you are until march.i have had lots of interviews ,most are liars saying work through year round ,they are flooding the jobs market for seasonal work .I turned down 3 blatant liars this week .Maybe try a weekend shift at a new job then see how it goes ,sometimes its better the devil you know, if you got a gut feeling
Unless you’re desperate to leave, why rush? Keep your eyes and ears open, put the feelers out amongst your mates and wait for the job you fancy to come up.
you wil be best of sticking to youre current job until feb march time as everything dies down after xmas and all companines will be searching for work to keep the trucks running im in the same boat fancy chaning and moving onto european work but wont risk doing anything until march april time ■■■ i know i got a guranteed wage coming in every month good luck in future
Well I jacked my job Tuesday morning,after realising I’d made a mistake going back to pallet network deliveries. Applied for 5 jobs in my area, went for an interview Friday and start tomorrow night! Total change of direction.
I’m going to be one of those bods setting up the temp traffic lights. It’s not the one’s who bodge up diversion routes. We only replace existing lights whilst the permanents are being overhauled.I get a van to use for personal use too. So here we go. Plus the other jobs I applied for, I was offered immediate starts with. So there is work to be had.
Depends if the work is affected by the seasons really. We move waste,bulk and plant, so we are still recruiting but the amount of CV’s coming in has slowed down at this time of year probably because people on agency are staying their for Xmas hoping for big bucks and come January will start looking for a full time job again.
If the right CV comes in where I work my boss will buy another unit as we can always get more loads.
If you are going to another full time permanent job, it doesn’t really matter when you go, and if it’s you first crack at general haulage and tramping, after xmas when it slows down a bit is your better option so your not slung straight into the deep end so to speak, then you have a few months when your not getting pushed to the max everyday to get used to it.
as bigvern 1 says there is work about and not all of it is seasonal, you wont know if you don’t try,
You being a dustman i wouldn’t jump before Christmas unless you don’t get many tips 
blue estate:
You being a dustman i wouldn’t jump before Christmas unless you don’t get many tips
The only thing we get lately is abuse and grief.
We don’t have seasonal demand as such, but made busy by our main customer trying to cram four weeks into three before they shut down, then they are slow to get going again in the new year. We wouldn’t take some one on before Xmas because we’ be paying them whilst we had 3 quiet weeks.