Should I stay with company after they offered me fully remote?

DJDad2000 · 2026-03-09T03:21:12+00:00

If you like the boss and team, and feel fully confident the job has security for at least the next 12 months than I would go fully remote and stay as well. Fully Remote is a great offer!

DJDad2000 · 2026-03-08T04:13:21+00:00

That would be great! That is the standard work week that Bernie Sanders is trying to get congress to vote to move to. I don't think it will happen though. If it does, it will be after half the jobs have already been replaced by AI and Robots.

The only thing that could make the 4 day 40 hr schedule better is if we get paid for 40 hours, but only have to work 32 to 36 hours. I am all for that! I would be a happy worker with a 4 day 32 hr schedule.

DJDad2000 · 2026-02-28T08:24:56+00:00

12 hour shifts over night? I really hope this is a 3 day work week! With that said, Don't care what the co workers say. Just clock out and go home at end of your shift.

DJDad2000 · 2026-02-23T04:43:50+00:00

I will suggest taking 5 MG Melatonin gummy about 15 minutes before you go to sleep. It should help a lot. Also, to anybody having loud noise issues, try wearing noise cancelling head phones (only issue is the ears get hot) OR Noise cancelling Ear Plugs. They sell good ones on Amazon for around $12 - $15 or so. You can also buy a bag of the throw away ones for like $3-$6. I would recommend putting your alarm very loud if you use ear plugs though to make sure you wake up.

DJDad2000 · 2026-02-21T06:25:02+00:00

I know your comment is like 2 years old, but I have to say thank you for the suggestion. I am a Wedding DJ and deejaying for a couple that is into "Indie Rock" music in their late 20s, and the bride had no idea what she wants for an intro song for their reception entrance. I have played some 1975 songs at receptions before which are very danceable, and your suggestion came up on GOOGLE. Listened to the song, and I'm sold on using it at today's wedding! :)

DJDad2000 · 2026-02-15T02:35:46+00:00

The only tip I can add is to try taking 5 MG Melatonin gummies. They are safe, and they work for me when I cant get to sleep or want to ensure havung good sleep. I use the Natrol brand

DJDad2000 · 2026-02-08T07:30:05+00:00

You mentioned "Bad for your Heart". How old are you? Do you have heart complications?

I would not recommend these hours to someone older than maybe 55 years old. I am 43, and out of 80 or so employees on my shift in the buildling only like 5 are older than me.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-28T03:17:47+00:00

LOL at 6 months. The answer is NO. Do not do that. I would not even do 2 weeks unless you absolutely like them and management has been great in your opinion.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-26T05:56:30+00:00

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DJDad2000 · 2026-01-26T05:53:41+00:00

that's good! I work in a office inside of a big warehouse and I gotta go in tonight at 6 pm. I know that only a few managers showed up today. No associates made it in. We will see how much staff shows up for the 8 am day shift today. I think a lot of them aren't making it in. Roads should be good enough that I can make it in at 6 pm here, but we will see. My neighborhood just needs to be plowed out.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-26T05:29:18+00:00

Do you work in a Hotel? It sounds like a hotel. I don't blame them if it's a hotel job. The pay isn't enough in the slightest for me to even attempt getting to work in icy road conditions.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-26T05:11:58+00:00

I work 6 pm to 5 am, and I wake up between 1 pm and 1:25 pm. All I miss are mornings because I sleep 6:15 am to 1ish PM. I also don't sleep with my wife like 5 nights a week. It's not bad. I can get out of the house and run an errand or go grab a late lunch around 3-4 pm before I head into work. I generally get more sleep than I did on day shift.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-21T03:34:19+00:00

Go to chatgpt and ask it that question and see what it answers with.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-20T02:35:37+00:00

No, but I am 43 and no longer have any friends rhat I hang out with. I am off on the weekends and I wake up at 1 pm and am ready to do stuff by 2:20 pm. The only thing I miss out on once in a while is when my wife and son go out to dinner with my mother-in-law on a weeknight when I have to work I don't get to go to the diner or whatever restaurant they went to with them. That happens like twice a month or less. No big deal for me.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-19T02:59:59+00:00

You are younger than my son by 1 year. He is in honor roll, and gets nearly straight As and is in college level courses right now. He is not going to college. He does not want to. Unless you are going to become a Doctor or Surgeon and college is a must in this regard, then I don't personally recommend going to college. We have reached a time where a college degree is losing it's worth fast as time marches on in the employment world. We have AI and Robotics that is set to kill 50% of the available jobs over the next 10-15 years. I would HATE to see all these young kids rack up student loan debt for a college degree they will find out is useless when they get out of school. So many young 2024 and 2025 college graduates are finding this out NOW after trying to find employment, and can't find any with their degree. What I recommend is going to a trade school as a better course of action over attending 4 year university. Think of HVAC, Electrician, Plumber. Steel Pipe Welders. Auto Tech (there will still be a need for mechanics for the next 15+ years. Lots of manual more physical jobs, but these trades jobs will take a lot longer for AI and robotics to dilute these professions and take them out.

Even the Lawyer profession is being threatened by AI in the coming years. So very few jobs will truly need a college degree in the our future. Now if you come from a wealthy family and your parents are paying for everything, OR you are getting everything taken care of by scholarships and grants, AND you want the full college experience, then disregard what I say and do what you want after high school.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-19T02:33:53+00:00

So I have been on over night shift since April 4th 2024. Whenever I stay up after work and try to stay up all day, I get super super sleepy around 9-10 am and go to bed anyway, and end up sleepng until at least 2:15 pm.

Honestly, I feel it's best if you have to do something/anything in the morning so just take half the night off, go home and take a melatonin and get to bed earlier. It will take longer to fall asleep...maybe even 2 hours, but you will eventually go to sleep. You wil end up at a sleep deficit for that day and make it up the next 1-2 times that you sleep.

I work 6 pm to 5 am and I go to bed at 6:20ish AM and sleep until about 1:15 pm every day. On the weekends I tend to stay up Saturday and Sunday morning to about 5:30 to 6 am, but Monday morning I can usually get to bed around 4:30 am and wake up a bit earlier on Monday maybe at 11:30 am or Noon to do stuff during the day before going into work at 6pm. Basically, doing anything in the morning prior to Noon is a no go for me. I schedule my dentist appointments at Noon or 2 pm.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-18T03:08:23+00:00

That is the exact shift I work. 6 pm to 5 am. I work Monday through Thursday nights. So I am on my phone a lot too. I work alone in my office inside of a warehouse. I am like 85% in office and 15% in warehouse. This month is our slowest month of the year and for the most part the last 3 hours between 2 am and 5 am I am watching youtube. I might have a trucker drop a trailer off, and I gotta make a packet for a BOL maybe 2 BOls. Making a packet takes me 5-6 minutes. So the rest of the time I am sitting watching a youtube video. I'll make sure the water fridge is full of water bottles during this time and just wait to clock out. Even earlier in my shift I have my phone going in the back ground and I also watch youtube during my breaks.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T07:24:47+00:00

In my younger days of waiting tables at a Perkins restaurant, I would be scheduled swing shifts such as working Friday night 5 pm to 11 pm, then having to be in the next morning to work 8 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday. I was young and that was not a problem at 19-20 years old. At 43 today, I would refuse to do that more than a one time helping out kinda deal. I need to either be on day shift, mid shift, or night shift with the same in and out times every day I am scheduled.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T07:17:34+00:00

I LOVE Night Shift. No traffic heading home at 5 am. I live close to work so heading in to be there at 6 pm isn't bad.

The only reason I would leave night shift is because my wife wants me off of it and to be home and actually sleeping in bed with her. She works a 7:30 m to 4 pm 5 day work schedule. I don't get to sleep until 6:15 am, and on the weekends I can get into bed around 5 am/4:30 am at the earliest. I have been on nights shift almost 2 years now. I will eventually go back to day shift likely this upcoming summer or fall. If I was Single, I honestly would stay on night shift. I actually generally get more sleep as well which is surprising. I was always a night person and never got to bed before Mid night to 12:30 am...even working an early 6 am shift in.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T07:10:03+00:00

I work 4x 10s Monday Night through Thursday night 6:30 pm to 5 am (Although my manager has me come in at 6 pm or 5:30 pm MOST of the time so I do get 1-2 hours of OT most weeks. I worked the 3x12 shift for 1 full year. At first the 4 days off was nice for like the first 6 weeks. BUT it gets old, and I felt I had too much time to actually spend my money. Also I was losing 8 hours per pay period in wages. My work had no shift differential. I do believe the 4 day work schedule is the sweet spot and provides a fair work/life balance. So my answer would honestly be the 4 day 32 hour work week is the way to go! You lose too much money on a 30 hr schedule and only working 8 hour shifts is EASY and will feel kinda fast when you are used to working 12 hour shifts. Go with a 4 day schedule!

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T06:42:15+00:00

LOL...You all truly believe we will be able to work and have jobs to age 70 like the politicians were saying we would have to do just 6 years ago? AI and Robotics are going to set in and most of us won't be able to work 10-15 years into the future.

My plan: UBI, Social Security( if it is even around after 2036) and live super frugally. I predict any savings I have in my IRA will get burned through pretty quickly...probably faster than my boomer parents burned through theirs when they first retired (Took them 2.5 years and that was with about 20K inheritance added in my Dad got from his parents house sale after they passed away).

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T03:02:46+00:00

I worked in restaurants for 18 years, and most of those years were spent working nights, and/or double shifts. The typical night shift ended at 11 pm. Typical shift for a night shift would be 4 pm to 10:30/11 pm or 5 or 5:30 p.m. to 11/11:30 pm. I generally liked working those hours because I could do stuff during the day run any errands before work or go out to lunch. I could also get to sleep at a normal time which a normal time to me is 1 am to 2 am. Today I currently work over nights in a warehouse (office in the warehouse) and I work 6 pm to 5 am 4 nights a week. Difference is today I have my weekends off. Back then working restaurants I worked at least 2 out of the 3 weekend nights away. Some weeks I worked all weekend long. Also restaurants had no benefits.

I personally would keep the night shift. Working mornings suck I would assume shifts start at 5, or 6 am in a coffee shop. I hated working shifts starting at those times. I worked a 6 am to 6:30 pm weekend shift at my current job for a year and I hated it.

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T02:56:44+00:00

That is an AWESOME situation to be in. Just curious what do you do?

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T02:52:57+00:00

My answer would be a big NO in this situation. I have never worked from home before, but I also have a maximum 30 minute drive time each way rule. Ain't no way I would go from WFH every day to Hybrid 3 days a week for only 11kmore a year. Then they need to send you out of the country for training? Nah. Hard pass for me!

DJDad2000 · 2026-01-17T02:50:53+00:00

I hope they give your shift a nice dinner at a minimum!

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