Thoughts on working for the County?

I can't remember..sorry

 

dang, our county is hiring for a road grader route. $30/hr. good benefits but limited OT

 

what's a level 1? Run a grader on gravel roads mostly, some truck driving and manual labor. and snow

 

Expect that in the summer, it will be hot and dirty. Expect that in the fall, you will be picking up a lot of deer carcasses. In the winter you will be plowing, and in the spring, you will be cleaning out clogged ditches and culverts.

Oh, man, did you have to go THERE???

 

If youre doing asphalt youll get laid off in the winter

 

And during winter when there is no snow to plow and the equipment is cleaned up and serviced from the last storm you can expect to be running a chainsaw or pulling cut trees and brush up to the road and feeding it into chipping machine , this has a high resemblance to work ! Especially in deep snow.
Patching holes on hard surface roads was always fun on 100 degree days too.
Ditch mowing was ok if ya got a machine with ac but miserable if not .
Rocking roads was ok if you could tolerate the boredom of the back and forth routine.
Working with the Gradall operator cleaning and grading ditches , installing driveway tube's was it's own brand of misery due to heat and dust but also due the personality of the Gradall operator....most of the county's trucks back then had no AC .
Lots of politics and backdoor deals went on back then some of which I used to my benefit, farmers love free dirt and I got to choose who got the dirt we took out of those ditches so let's just say I never had any shortage of land to hunt .
Bottom line tho is I hated the politics , the whole union protects the lazy thing while everyone else busts ### , management that robbed the county blind .
I liked plowing snow and working in the shop but nothing else do I miss .

 

Wastewater treatment plant operator is a job that most people never think about and usually pays pretty decent in small towns

and the test is pretty easy to get started
With the basic license