Update on possible job at a brewery

OP, don't listen to this assumption. While having a kid and a mortgage does add other variables to account for, it doesn't make following your passion impossible.

 

This job is part time, low pay and has a schedule that won't permit her to have another job because they need her whenever they need her. I can tell you the older you get and the more responsibility you get the harder it would be to drop a full time job with benefits to go scrub tanks at a brewery.

Working at a brewery is great, but even master brewers don't make a heap of money. So I say she should do it now before life gets more complicated.

I don't know how old you are, but even at 31 I am way past my chance of quitting my job to go make minimum wage following my passion.

 

what? vs the female dominated world of radiochemistry?! you'll be fine. It definitely can't be worse than lab misogyny.

 

I say go for it. You have a supportive significant other, youth and a passion for beer. If I was 25 and had this opportunity presented to me I probably never would have became an accountant.

 

You remind me so much of one of my old college roommates. She grew up in a small town in Montana and was the only female in the electrical engineering school at USC. They threw money and scholarships at her to keep her in the program, but ultimately she left it to pursue her passion as just a regular contract electrician. And as far as I can tell, it was the best decision for her. She doesn't make the money she would have as an electrical engineer, but she loves her job and is happy.

You seem to be OK with putting in your dues. Take the leap and enjoy the ride. Do your job at the brewery without complaints, take every opportunity to learn and don't let the guys treat you like a girl instead of a co-worker. You'll be fine.

 

I should really start posting my job questions on here too......or make a decision on my own like I already do.

 

I'm of the opinion you should quit all jobs and go be a fly fishing guide in Montana.

 

What you're saying now is different than what you said before. You are now saying exactly what I said (that kids and a mortgage can make it harder to follow such dreams). This is different than what you said before which was that you can "never" follow those dreams when said variables are added.

The things that make it impossible to follow's ones' dreams are often more substantial issues like long-term poverty and physical/mental disablity. Those variables can at times make the possibilities of pursuing ones' dreams impossible. But having kids and a house doesn't necessarily equate to the same.

 

Ok, I guess never was too strong of a word. I'm a realist though. When she's 35 and has three rug rats running around she's not going to quit her full time job with benefits at the lab to go scrub tanks part time for $8 an hour, that's all I was getting at. Could she? Sure. In reality though, no.

 

Strike while the iron's hot. Bust your ass and, if your employer is worth their salt, will take notice and reward your hard work and loyalty.

And if by the off-chance this brewery doesn't work out for you, you already have skills and significant experience in TWO fields vice just one. Safety nets...

 

I say GO FOR IT!

 

I work in a lab, full time with benefits, and have 2 "rugrats." I would give it all up (except the kids of course) to work (from the bottom up!) in a brewery if I could. But you're right, it's not realistic and I won't be doing it anytime soon. Damn responsibilities...

 

Montana is for amatuers Wyoming is where its at and that puts her in another unique position.

 

I really have no advice for you unfortunately but whatever desicion you make good luck and if you do take the plunge ISO: MommaGoose beer.

 

This is nothing but projection of your behaviors on to someone else. As such, FTFY.

 

Comes down to risk tolerance to some extent. Being with the same company for 32 years, I've turned down a lot of offers just because of those myriad "other variables". It isn't impossible, it just gets more complicated the more established you become. Funny thing is now that I am on the "back nine" so to speak, some of the headhunter calls I get these days are mighty tempting. Now it is more like am I willing to hang in here until I can officially go out in a blaze of glory...

Somebody mentioned that the deal sounds one sided and that is a great point. It does seem as though terms are being dictated. Don't underestimate what YOU are bringing to the show with your background - you can address some very real needs in a brewery with the skills you already have. You should really be able to accelerate that timeline in my opinion.

 

It's not a projection, it's called life. How many people do you honestly know that love what they do for a living and are following their passion?

 

Would rather do Canada myself, but Montana is more approachable

 

One needs to be careful about what one wishes for, as one might get it.

Escaping a job that is offensively boring is the good part, but will it be to fulfill a dream whose reality might be an even more offensive work environment? I have made these decisions myself in my life, and I now know what decisions were right, and where I went wrong.

Asking us is just a way to kick the can down the road.

I know you are a woman, but my advice is to Man Up And Look Inside, The Answer Ain't Here, It's In Your Heart.

Figure out the worst that the brewery work could offer up, and if you are honest with yourself about that, the answer will appear.

 

That's what all of this is Prov. OP asked for advice. What do you think advice is?