Hello; Do not wish to rain on your parade but you may want to wait a while before spending what seems like extra money on stuff you could not afford before the raise. The fear is inflation will eat up the raise and more. That you will wind up spending more for the same things that use to cost less. Those things may cost more and you may wind up with less buying power than before.
I have been thru the cycles a few times over my life.
Ahh yes, you see, I had meant for it to be a joke, however, it would appear that it did not come through clearly, my apologies. And worry not about me spending more, I’m saving up for my first rental unit.
Most people just get a pay rise of a measly few %. So a 50% rise is quite a feat, well done young Brian.
Apparently I typed the wrong number, I’m currently making $14 an hour, not $15 an hour, still very good.
My boss said that he has acknowledged I’m an important part of our three man team in the part of the warehouse where we work. To make it simple, my boss W and my fellow coworker N run a plasma cutting table. You bring the metal sheets in and put them on the table, you program the machine to cut what you want, then you pick up the pieces and load them onto a pallet and get the metal that can be used and put it off to the side and take the metal that can’t be used (too small) and put it in the metal dumpster/trailer. I’m W’s assistant basically, I go back and forth between their plasma tables stacking up the metal, getting the left over metal off, and putting new metal on the table for them to cut. Because of me doing that N and W can focus on telling the machine what they want it to cut on the next sheet without having to waste time picking up the metal themselves. We are *consistently* ahead of schedule and whenever we get a bunch of jobs thrown at us at once (uncommon) we get caught up and back ahead quickly because of me. Here are some pics of work
