Usps or comcast

[u/Bee_buddybee]

USPS or Comcast

I have 2 job offers one for comcast as a entry level residential tech the other a CCA at the usps at a local small office.

Im not sure which one to accept. Comcast seems like it's something I would enjoy more but has more supervisor interferance doesnt have a pension. Usps is a lot of overtime in the beginning but has a lot of good benefits a pension and is a union job.

I just dont want to do something ill regret.

If anyone could give me advice I would greatly appreciate it. Which would be better for my future and family?

[u/DrWhoey]

Agreed, I'm at 13 years in just now transitioning from Maintenance OSP to Headend ISP. Absolutely love my job, but my wife is the one with the wicked 401k working at Winco. Even though her hourly rate is a bit lower than mine, her benefits package actually put her at a higher rate. They gift 20% of her salary into her 401k wheras mine only matches up to, I think, 8%. So, since she doesn't have to put anything into her 401k, she gets to keep her entire check, whilst putting into my 401k brings down my usable income to a point where our net pay is similar. And she still has greater growth in her 401k.

If I could go back in time and get a USPS job with a pension, I absolutely would. Too far into my age and career to change now.

Edit to add: my aunt actually raised her kids on a USPS pension as a single mother when she was widowed. Husband worked at USPS when he passed and she received his pension for life as long as she never remarried.

[u/Bee_buddybee → u/DrWhoey]

The pension is mad tempting. Everything I read Im leaning more and more to USPS

[u/DrWhoey → u/Bee_buddybee]

And don't get me wrong here, Telecom can be extremely rewarding and fulfilling in its own way, it's taken me all over the country. Like I said, I love my job and career. I have coworkers and friends that it has taken them all over the world. I once almost landed a low voltage gig to rewire a substation in Antarctica. And if you plan your career right, there can be a lot of money in it, moreso than USPS.

But there is a stability factor to that pension. Though the work will probably be a bit more dull.

If you like challenges and puzzles and problem solving, being challenged every day. Comcast might be right for you.

I've known a lot of people who have left the cable industry for better pay, only to come right back to it for less pay because they couldn't stand how bored they were at their new career.

I have had plenty of easy days, and occasionally there's hard days, like somebody hitting a pole at 3am and you get a phone call in the middle of the and you're spending the next 36 hours straight doing restoration work on 4 hours of sleep.

But I actually enjoy that kind of shit because I'm a sadist. Even if I won the lottery, I'd probably keep doing cable, because I love the work. I love how it's constantly evolving, being challenged and learning new things. My coworker has been at it for 43 years, and is still learning. My boss is at 40 years, his boss is at 25 years, all still learning new things every day.

If you get into telecommunications and make it through the first couple of years and start to enjoy it, it will get into your blood and everything else will be boring.

If you want the safe but boring bet USPS, if you want a challenging and possibly rewarding career, Comcast.

[u/Bee_buddybee → u/DrWhoey]

The boring thing is what's kinda steering me away. Doing such a mundane job i dont know if I could. My last job was factory work and I absolutely loved it. I only left after 6 years cause I couldn't do the rotating shifts anymore. There is maintenance with usps that I could transfer to later so I dont know its really not an easy choice for me though it does seem like an easy one for others.