Why You Should take a Full Time position over a Part Time if you can

[smahala1991]

I currently work part time at a hardware store. Sometimes I get 25 hours and sometimes I get 8 hours aweek depending on sales and number of employees. However, I would like to go get a piece of the Full Time Pie, but in a sense it's not going to be easy where I am at now. I have been there a year and half, and currently have been been putting in for other jobs. I feel like I've had the time to learn more like cash register, pricing, forklift etc... in that time, but haven't. I feel like full time might be the best for me and most people. Here's why you should go full time if you can.

1. More Stability/ loyalty.

I have noticed the full time employees most places have more loyalty and are generally happier. This is because if they have full time they have more control and influence in their job. At one time my store when we first opened had 39 employees. Now we have 15. We have had some stay a year, some two months, some a day, and some two weeks. Sometimes we've been so shortstaffed that they had called in reserves from other stores rather than use their own resources. Talk about a waste of your own natural resources huh?

2. Better benefits

Right now I get an employee Discount, PTO, Sickpay, 401K and Vacation Pay. Not bad for a part timer right? Well, we don't get insurance, but full timers do. I just was diagnosed with high blood pressure and I really want insurance so I can go to the doctor. If I can't get full tim-then I surely can't afford it through ObamaCare or TrumpCare. Medicaid isn't expanding in North Carolina right now anyways. So full time employment usually offers insurance.

3. Bigger paychecks

I want to move out on my own. But that will require rent, electric, water, cable, internet etc... On my salary I wouldn't even be able to afford the light bill much less an apartment. Right now I pay my parents $100 every two weeks to help with water,lights,food,car, etc.. Plus i have a $50 per month cell phone bill. But if I wanna move out I need a full time job to do so. I want to be self sufficent.

So, the way I see it I like the job I have ok, but I just want to learn more and get more skills as well. So I can have stable hours and not a schedule that changes at the drop of a hat.

Some people might call me selfish or ungrateful, but I have to look out for myself because no one else will.

#Parttimevsfulltime

[SmartButBroke]

My job is an exception, lol, especially to your first point.

I manage/maintain all the web sites, marketing and most of the inventory where I currently work, so my job is very important, even though I don't work 40 hours a week. Pretty much from day one, I came in fixing errors with the sites and taking over all the web duties. No one else really does the web work at my job. I also affect a lot of big business decisions... like my boss asked me to think over one weekend about whether or not to shut down the eBay store, which we did... and today I told him we should order more of one particular product because we get online orders for it almost daily and we only had one left... he ordered 60 of them and asked me what else we should order. I have never really had this much of a voice and control over what I do elsewhere, even working more than 40 hours.

The benefits thing... it seems to be going by the wayside more and more, regardless of where you work. But I work for a small business, and no one there has benefits, I don't think, in part because of the size. I also don't care about benefits, though. Even when health insurance has been offered at my jobs, I have always dealt with it myself and gotten private individual insurance, especially since I rarely like where I work long enough to stay... it usually makes signing up for health insurance through my employer kind of silly since I'm not going to stay for even a year, most of the time. This way, I have stability with my health insurance plans and don't have to keep changing them.

Bigger checks... because I am working a different type of job than I usually do now (i. e. the web and marketing side of technology vs hardware and tech support), I actually make more working part time at this place than I have in the past at most places I've worked full time. I also can work more hours where I work if I want, I just choose not to and don't really see a point/need for working 40 hours at this job (as far as the duties), except for the money. I am more of a work-life balance person than a "big paycheck" person, but if you really need every last cent it's a different story.

Basically, it just depends on the job, the career field and your employer. When you work jobs like retail (your hardware store), fast food or hospitality as opposed to a desk/office or corporate job, your hours are almost always unstable. I do work for a store, but it's more of a desk/office job, not front desk/sales.

[Prof_Don]

Fulltime work is ALWAYS preferable. Stability with one's income is good.

That's why I can't wait to be a full-time teacher, instead of a substitute.

[1truekhaleesi]

Oh definitely. I hope I can get a full-time job at a hospital.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

yes, and the sky is blue!

[jesusnicolas97]

Yeah I agree