Full time day job and being a package handler

[PT Car Washer]

Preload during peak season, 100%. Sometimes they start even earlier.

Preload can not start until midnight wraps. I guess a few higher seniority can start pulling cages and loading cars to make more room in the boxline.

 

[Indecisi0n]

@Indecisi0n

Who's on their feet all day?

 

[PT Car Washer]

Who's on their feet all day?

Certainly not a delivery driver. Only time a Feeder driver is on his feet is waiting in line for the feed trough or the bathroom.

 

[Indecisi0n]

Certainly not a delivery driver. Only time a Feeder driver is on his feet is waiting in line for the feed trough or the bathroom.

Little known fact, we sit when we pee.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Little known fact, we sit when we pee.

That is what the Feeder washers tell me. And I thought picking up pee bottles was gross.

 

[Box Ox]

Who's on their feet all day?

Whoops! Forgot you’d recently ascended to FT gas pedal duty.

 

[llamainmypocket]

Where the hell does any PT work midnight to 8:00 AM unless they are double shifting.

Isnt this normal for everyone during peak season? It's mandatory from Thanksgiving to Christmas in my building.

 

[Staydryitsraining]

I did prison construction after preload. If your a man you'll get through it.

 

[Yolo]

We had days working from 11:30pm to ~8:30am for preload during peak.

 

[llamainmypocket]

I did prison construction after preload. If your a man you'll get through it.

Are we showing off? I worked 40 hours at ups followed by another 50 at another job. Lived an hour away from each job. Still found time to workout 4 days a week. Was getting 2-4 hours of sleep a night. You normies vot nothing on me. I've got super powers. It's pathological.

 

[rustys954rr]

I’m a mechanic at a car dealership

I've known lots of mechanics that work part time, if you stick around long enough you can bid into a UPS mechanic job.

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

Are we showing off? I worked 40 hours at ups followed by another 50 at another job. Lived an hour away from each job. Still found time to workout 4 days a week. Was getting 2-4 hours of sleep a night. You normies vot nothing on me. I've got super powers. It's pathological.

The only thing pathological is your inability to tell the truth.

 

[Elmo.goes.to.prom]

I do.

After 2 years it will catch up to your body. After that you will hurt all day, everyday.

I stay for the insurance. Do what you need to do.

 

[showstopper99]

OP it can be done for sure! Many people work another job and then go to ups to work their part time shift.

I have averaged 65+ hours the last 2.5 years doing a full day warehouse job and then loading in the evenings...just waiting to get into driving. I’m on the steps of that now.

Long days but you do what you gotta do.

 

[PeakMode]

Preload can not start until midnight wraps. I guess a few higher seniority can start pulling cages and loading cars to make more room in the boxline.

We had preload sort start as early as 10:45pm during peak.

 

[BuckyBadger]

Preload can not start until midnight wraps. I guess a few higher seniority can start pulling cages and loading cars to make more room in the boxline.

Our preload starts at midnight during Peak. Reload only goes till about 10pm

 

[Wally]

I have an interview on Wednesday for a package handler position. I have a physical full time day job, but I really need some extra money to get caught up on bills. Does anyone here have a physical day job where you’re on your feet all day and then go work as a package handler? How hard is it to do a full time job and be a package handler?

Sorry, I'm a package car driver. I'm lazy. DR-mailbox.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Our preload starts at midnight during Peak. Reload only goes till about 10pm

You guys must not work in a Hub where the preload can not start until the Hub finishes. Do some of you guys in your one belt metal sheds even know what a Hub is?

 

[eats packages]

You guys must not work in a Hub where the preload can not start until the Hub finishes. Do some of you guys in your one belt metal sheds even know what a Hub is?

We had days where the preload and outbound were in at the same time. The cages were filled with rolled volume that was supposed to be delivered yesterday.

Then the sort would finish and we would begin some of the current volume.

 

[Tom MacDonald]

If my skinny bitch legs can do it you can too.

Get good shoes and compression socks for your calves. Take fish oil and stretch your legs often particularly the glutes and hamstrings. Protein powder in the morning and night with bcaas.

If you can get in the gym and do some leg work it'll reduce how sore they are after work, if you can't... Certain bodybuilding supplements like ZMA will help muscle recovery too without ever even going to the gym.

Oh and the most important thing you can do for your mind and body is smoke weed