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Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2022 18:28:18 No.1819879 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1819904 >>1821662 >>1822171 >>1822231 >>1822313 >>1822475 >>1824679 >>1824701

I tried getting a railroad job but it was impossible (actually like all other jobs I tried to apply for). Did you ever get one, anon? How was it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2022 18:30:57 No.1819882 Report

Quoted By: >>1819892

NOPE lol
My last attempt was at some position involving loading railcars. And even that was impossibru.
Surely they will call... any day now...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2022 18:43:44 No.1819892 Report

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>>1819882
I even tried volunteering but they denied me, ahahahaha..

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2022 19:00:32 No.1819904 Report

Quoted By: >>1820218

>>1819879
I'm a driver by accident. Get good, interview well and pass the aptitude tests.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Jul 2022 23:31:18 No.1820027 Report

Quoted By: >>1821666 >>1821669

I don't know if this counts, but I recently got a job as a traffic engineer for the subway system at a major North American city. It took me nearly a decade to land the job. Start off small, and work your way up the ladder if you can. I started off as a code monkey making peanuts. Good luck, anons. Don't give up on your dreams; with enough hard work, you'll pull through.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Jul 2022 11:45:02 No.1820218 Report

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>>1819904
Can you tell me a bit more about what the job is like. I'm a fairly highly trained professional and want to switch to driving trains. I believe I could succeed in the interviews but what is the job really like?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2022 21:32:31 No.1821662 Report

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>>1819879
Work as a tram driver in Oslo and just got admittet to train operator school. Tram driving is allright but train is better paid and I wont have to stay on edge to avoid dividing ethnic minorities on electric scooters, drunks and druggies into multiple small peices underneath the weels of a tram built in Germany in the 80s

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2022 21:37:04 No.1821666 Report

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>>1820027
ok boomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 05 Jul 2022 21:42:33 No.1821669 Report

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>>1820027
ok boomer

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2022 02:03:52 No.1821741 Report

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Easy. I wasn't a dipshit and passed a drug test.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2022 21:10:10 No.1822129 Report

Quoted By: >>1822130 >>1822172 >>1822208 >>1822461 >>1824611 >>1824677

>phone rings
>"hello anon we were impressed with your resume and would like to interview you for that railcar technician position you applied for"
>jump out of bed, do a little victory dance
>everything goes great, job's as good as mine
>"blah blah blah position is located in the MIDDLE OF BUTTFUCK NOWHERE CANADIAN PRAIRIES"
>b-but the job opening said it was located in my city's area...
>"Oh sorry, that's where our office is located. Must have been a mistake"
>"You're not willing to relocate to a small town in northern Saskatchewan?"

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKK
At this point I'm sure my entire life is just a circus of suffering.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2022 21:15:56 No.1822130 Report

Quoted By: >>1822138

>>1822129
Same.

I keep looking at CPR jobs in Calgary but they all are "located" in Calgary but have small print saying "may be re-located"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2022 21:29:19 No.1822138 Report

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>>1822130
lel I'm also a calgaryfag. Small world

I mean, I wouldn't mind travelinh for work in buttfuck nowhere if they paid for accomodations and shit but I'm not going to move out and pay rent for a literal fucking shithole.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2022 23:17:44 No.1822171 Report

Quoted By: >>1824680

>>1819879
Wtf you retards doing wrong ? Railroads are desperate for people right now... UP even decided to hire x convicts

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Jul 2022 23:20:53 No.1822172 Report

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>>1822129
Find out how big is the union seniority district for that area. Maybe you can relocate back to where you wanna be once you gain enough seniority

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 00:58:00 No.1822208 Report

Quoted By: >>1822326

>>1822129
fucking go for it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 02:03:52 No.1822231 Report

Quoted By: >>1823225

>>1819879
Ive been railroading for 6 years, been an engineer for 4 years now. Pic rel is me. Best job ive ever had. Started on the railroad when i got out of the military at 21. Im 27 now, make good money, have a good union and im one of the few people left in the world who can say they honestly love their job

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 05:10:54 No.1822313 Report

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>>1819879
if you cant get a job driving freight, then be a bum riding freight!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 05:29:39 No.1822326 Report

Quoted By: >>1822457

>>1822208
Saskatchewan is like Siberia in north America, the most horrible weather and the most psychotic drunk drug addicted psychopath population. Thousands of people are fleeing that province because of how awful it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 13:40:56 No.1822457 Report

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>>1822326
Driven to Regina from North Dakota before, for a visit. Stayed a few days at a Double Tree in the center. Didn't seem that bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 14:02:47 No.1822461 Report

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>>1822129
>>"You're not willing to relocate to a small town in northern Saskatchewan?"
wtf that sounds comfy af anon. I hope you didn't actually fuck up this bad and you're just memeing

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Jul 2022 15:07:14 No.1822475 Report

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>>1819879
do you have any skills at all that are related to it? I drove a truck for a little over a year, worked in metal fab, and had a bunch of manual labor jobs over the years and got hired on with Loram pretty quickly. Its track maintenance not working for CSX, NS, BNSF or the like but its still on the railroad and from what I understand if CSX sees Loram on your resume its basically an instant hire.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Jul 2022 04:09:54 No.1823225 Report

Quoted By: >>1824504

>>1822231
Not op here
I have been trying for a couple years now with the railroad companies around here,Military as well 88H
Not even a interview,Even with a shortline that goes through are area.

Cant find a local BELT or SMART-TD (for rail here,Found the sheet metal Local part of that union though,kek)

So what the fuck should i do if i want to get in with a railroad here since I'm not even getting calls/emails for interviews,i did pass the apt test with a class 1 and the shortline doesn't have one (that i know of)
Advice? or any other anons?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 00:58:04 No.1824504 Report

Quoted By: >>1824565

I got a trainman job on a class two after working in other departments for a few years
It pays really well if seniority works in your favor but if it doesn't expect hard work and poor/unpredictable hours
just keep applying. in my class they had 150ish applicants, 20 started training, and five of us made it three years
>>1823225
class ones will hire anyone, class twos are more selective since they won't make you want to kill yourself every day

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 05:23:14 No.1824565 Report

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>>1824504
Yeah,no class 1 nor shortline has taken me yet,25 apps so far with the shortline(s) and i forget how many with class 1's right now,gotta look in total
Shortline is a g&w subdivisery so idk if they're being retards or fucked up internally

Only other i can think of is up near a port and are paper apps which i don't mind but its a 4 hour drive and my schedule is kinda fucked right now
A jointly owned one now thats been around since 1901 if you wonder there.

Im thinking i need to know someone to get a fucking interview at this point,hell if i know

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 09:31:33 No.1824611 Report

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>>1822129
Small Sask towns are nice.

If I had to move to Canada I’d go somewhere like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 10:32:25 No.1824621 Report

Quoted By: >>1824865

I work do office work for a major railroad on the east coast. The benefits are amazing because you get 100% of your salary in pension after 25 years. I’m an intern now but I may go full time for them because it’s hard to refuse the good pay and amazing benefits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 13:04:03 No.1824677 Report

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>>1822129
Don't do it. Last month I relocated to Tennessee instead of the advertised San Jose for a tech job and I'm still experiencing PTSD.
Your location matters more than your job.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 13:09:05 No.1824679 Report

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>>1819879
I made my apprenticeship at a large factory that built trains. Pic related, I worked on that baby back in the day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 13:12:16 No.1824680 Report

Quoted By: >>1824706

>>1822171
Most railroads require having a driver's license (which many /n/ posters don't have) and being able to lift 100 pounds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 14:22:23 No.1824701 Report

Quoted By: >>1824786

>>1819879
I worked in railways for half a year as a conductor/travel attendant (not a person who controls the train ride, just like a steward but on rails).

Loved the job, but at the time I was going through some mental shit, that's why I left. Now the situation in our national railway company is so bad, the workers are overworked, etc. But even despite insomnia and all the shit I encountered, I loved that job. Best views hiding from passengers ever when your shift is on EMU/DMUs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 14:37:43 No.1824706 Report

Quoted By: >>1824710

>>1824680
its probably the lifting requirement as well and lack of experience doing manual labor preventing a lot of them from going somewhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 14:46:00 No.1824710 Report

Quoted By: >>1824730

>>1824706
>muh projecting so hard
salty about something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 15:24:21 No.1824730 Report

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>>1824710
nah I already got a job on the railroad, you feeling personally insulted there?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 18:10:22 No.1824786 Report

Quoted By: >>1824865

>>1824701
on commuter rail and amtrak are conductors still in charge of the train or are they not train crew?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 12 Jul 2022 19:54:30 No.1824865 Report

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>>1824621
>The benefits are amazing because you get 100% of your salary in pension after 25 years.
That's not how RRB works, you dumb ass.

>>1824786
They technically are, but they're really just glorified flight attendants. I'd never expect an Amtrak conductor to actually seriously switch.

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