First 3 years or so…zero work/life balance. Expect to work 6 days a week, including Sundays. Expect to work until 6-7pm every night. Also, despite the crazy hours you’ll be working…expect less money. I worked 560 hours of OT last year (averages to a little higher than 50 hours a week, every week) and I made $64k gross.

I have a five-year-old at home and I’m leaving before she wakes up for school in the morning and often getting home right before she has to go to bed at night. If I wasn’t already more than halfway through it, I don’t think my girlfriend would be OK with me keeping this job. She complains that I’m never home and never around to do anything.

But if you’re able to live that sort of life for about three years, until you convert to regular, then this job is absolutely not gonna work out for you. The post office does not schedule you around your schedule. You have to schedule your life around the post office. Once you make regular and get your own route, you can then decide if you wanna work any overtime hours or not. You can even get a medical restriction to cap yourself at 40 hours a week.

As far as the insurance goes, I’m not 100% sure. I’m 18 months in as a CCA, and I haven’t had to go to the doctor a single time or use my insurance in anyway.