So the past few days I’ve been giving thought to taking on a part time job. I applied at UPS and was able to get in for a tour of the facility. The long and short of it is, UPS offers amazing benefits for people who are working part time. The bad is that you will work your rear end off while loading boxes. I personally hope that if I do decide to take a job (and they offer it), that I can handle it.
Interestingly, they only promote from within – no one can come from outside with an advanced degree and start somewhere at the top of the corporate ladder. Every single person has to start by first moving boxes – every single person has to have been at the lowest level before climbing higher. Even the CEO moved boxes before being CEO. I think that’s a very interesting philosophy by which to run a business, and it seems to work quite well for UPS. It’s something I haven’t seen in other books on leadership, surprisingly.
In any event, I hope I can use the extra income to pay off all debts faster and get myself into good shape at the same time. I saw the other loaders working, and the job is pretty intense, but do-able.
