Applied Today!

Well I finally made the first step towards a change in career today. I applied to Millis. I have been researching in great depth the past few months and had it narrowed down between Millis and Roehl. I finally decided to apply with Millis! One of the main reasons is it's a smaller more family oriented company. I have been working for a big corporation the past nearly 5 years and want to get a little farther away from that culture and into something smaller. Millis seems to be a perfect fit for what I am looking for, the smaller family company with a training school! Perfect! And I haven't read a single thing bad about this company.

I am slightly worried about one thing however, I am not sure how many weeks I will go without a paycheck once I start the training. Anyone know this?? I know the first 3 weeks for sure is no pay. How soon after this 3 weeks do you finally get your first check? Do they hold a week once you start earning an income? I am trying to set my family and I up to have no issues financially while I transition into this new career, as I am the sole income provider for us. Any info/help would be greatly appreciated by anyone who went through the program recently. In my application I put available date as early September to give myself enough time to secure financial things at home before the switch.

I also am curious to see if a accident I was involved in will affect me getting offered a position. I was involved in a NO Fault of myself accident, where a lady turned right in front of me onto the side street. She took full responsibilty, she was on her phone with the sun in her eyes and didn't see me. It was a very low speed accident, less than 30 mph. I also have the police report to show where I was found at no fault at all. I drive a company vehicle for my current job and had to supply this to them and I was not issued any points for the accident. Anyone have any insight on this kind of situation? Other than that I have a clean record for at least the past 7 years with no violations. Had a few when I was much younger that wouldn't even show up on my record anymore.

I'm excited and hopeful that I could become a part of the Millis team and hope to keep posting more as the days go by!

 

Ahh ok thanks for the info. So it would just be a matter of when you get out with your trainer. Could possibly wait a few days or week even depending on when they could pick you up. So I think I should probably count on 4 weeks of no pay from the time my last day with my current employer to receiving a first check once training. Unless they do like Roehl does and hold a first check for whatever reason, than it would be at least 5 weeks, geesh that's a long time not to bring any gravy home lol

 

Well I am a little bummed that I didn't hear back from them today, just hoping they are a little over busy after last week's holiday week and will get back to me soon. If not I will call for a follow up to make sure they received my app.

Thanks for the info. It sounds like training pay is more or less a pro rated per day pay not a flat 500,550, 600 per week than if I understand correctly? Meaning the first week to get a full 500 a person needs to drive 4 hours per day all seven days? I know once I am out with a trainer I'd be pushing to drive as much as I can to soak up the experience of having someone with with far more experience and knowledge than myself. So I'd hope I be able to do this, minus the resets etc.

Well hopefully they will get back to me soon, I did put on there my available date would be early september, so I may not be on the top of the list right now to call back. I just want to give myself a good couple more months to sure up financial things before giving a notice at my current job.