(22 Nov 2022, 9:44 am)xpm wrote Haha no - but the similarities continue!  I also work in a factory, but in a year I've had three pay rises and earn far more now then I could ever imagine at GNE, and without killing myself to do it!

The driving was never an issue for me, even with the stress of traffic and other road users, it was just everything else   I work 12 hr shifts out of choice (and cos it pays a better hourly rate),  alternating patterns of day and night, but only work 14 days a month in total, my shifts are on a 4 week fixed pattern, and that works for me just fine.

Glad you've made the switch and have found a better way, that can't have been an easy decision having been there for that length of time.  Well done you.

Cheers.

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(22 Nov 2022, 4:17 pm)P814VTY wrote 20 years in the industry here, and I'm currently looking elsewhere. Any jobs going? ?

Plenty. Whereabouts in the NE do you live?

Oh and P814VTY, Arriva fleet number 280 Scania Saloon, a flying machine. I remember when the speed limiter was not working for a few months and I got her up to an indicated 75mph, some drivers claimed 80+ but they were probably talking bollocks lol.