I make 1450 in SSDI and make 1100 working 80 hours every months on top of 150 food stamps and public housing 400 dollars. I got a offer at the union electrician office for a job but I’d be working crazy hours in a physical nightmare job and not sure if I can work 12 hours everyday for life but I would be making 9 grand a month after expenses. Should I try or should I just be happy with what I currently get?

>>60513532 (OP)
Work you lucky bastard. There won't be work in ten years, so grab what you can get before they try to pod you.

>>60513532 (OP)
>union electrician office
Do it. You'd have to be an actual retard to turn that down.

I don't know much about the electrical industry in the USA but in my cunt it's generally known to be a lucrative and very safe profession. Even if you're just someone sitting in an office, you're relatively safe by proximity.

>>60513543
Apparently you work 12 hour days everyday for life and it’s labor tensive

That's just what they say to put off faggots, sounds like its working.

>>60513553
Electrical work is not terribly labour intensive unless you're a linesman spending all day out in the weather up at heights. Even then it's not hard on your body like typical construction work.

You're on disability and make a hair above minimum wage in a job which gives you no hours. By all rights most people would be deeply dissatisfied with such an existence. If doing a little bit of actual work isn't worth 9k/month to you, then turn it down. Only you can determine whether you're happy enough with your current life to stay, It sounds to me like you just want someone to give you a six figure office job pushing paper, which isn't going to be a reality for you - whatever circumstance has led to you living on disability and working fuck all hours for minimum wage will absolutely preclude you from getting a proper job, unless you pulled your finger out and completed a university degree. I think that door has closed for you now. An opportunity like this is basically God kissing you on the dick.

>>60513563
I make about 2400 gross and my food and housing is taken care of. I come out with 2000 spending cash a month. At any other job other than the trades I’d be worse off.

It's basically a winning lotto ticket and you'd be retarded not to take it

Many people wait in line for years to get in a good union. I was making minimum and then I got offered a non union gig out of the blue and it was the best thing that ever happened to me(job wise)

>>60513532 (OP)
Do you get a pension?

What state or country are you in OP? You should absolutely at least try it. Worst case you can find another minimum wage job elsewhere. "12 hours a day for life" seems like an exaggeration as you'd get overtime after 40 hours a week and $9k/month would probably be on the low end of that. Surely you're only working 4 days a week or something. But you'd be crazy not to try it out. I have a friend working 4 10's as an electrician and that would be the life, especially considering the raise in pay.

>>60513567
Go in Jose, seriously. Be grateful, work, accumulate, prepare.