I'm working at a place that was on a 36 one week, 48 the next schedule, and they announced back in December that it would be changing. Recently the 48 hour weeks went away, and we're now doing 3 x 12 shifts per week. No scheduled overtime anymore. Pay rate didn't change but I have a lot more free time.
I have also been working at an AMR county but the drive was getting to be long as more traffic hit the road, gas prices, etc. So I transferred to an operation that was much closer. However, I didn't realize that as a part timer, I'd not only have to be credentialed in each county (already was in 2 of them) but I'd have to go through FTO time for each one as well. Basically I end up a 3rd rider for a bunch of shifts, doing all of the patient care/charting anyway. Ok, whatever.
What changed things was finding out that even though the CBA said "must commit to 48 hours a month" what that really meant was "If you are not pre-scheduled, you will constantly be chasing shifts and hounded until you meet that 48 hour requirement."
at this point in my life, I have way too much going on. I had a polite conversation with one of the head folks there, thought about it for a while, and submitted my resignation.
already feels like a huge stress relief. having 4 different protocol sets in my head has been a bit too much for me. I'm no spring chicken anymore, and honestly I didn't see much of an advancement path there for me anyway other than street side posting paramedic. So I made the decision to let the part time gig go, even after losing the overtime at my full time job.
going to give it a couple months and see how things are. My wife is already freaking out but I don't think the financial hit will be that bad. And honestly, I'd much rather have the financial hit instead of the stress that it was causing me. There may be some overtime shifts here at the full time job anyway as people take vacation/etc. I can always hop on with one of the other IFT services in the area. Hell, at this point I've been to Home Depot so many times that I've been half tempted to apply.
So... for y'all. part time job questions. Any suggestions in Northern California for ones that *don't* demand a ton of hours, but actually pay decently? Surprising how many places around here are paying barely over minimum age. AMR was giving me about $33/hr as a CCP (but wasn't working as one, no provisions to do so...)
Just curious. I'm taking at least 2 months off from part time stuff because I'm busy with other things in life.
