I was wondering is csx a good job?(railroad)?

Question

I was wondering is csx a good job?(railroad)?

Answer 1

Your d**n right.   If you are not lazy.  After 5 to 10 years you will have enough AGE to work about where you want to. I worked for them for 21 years and retired......you won;t beat the retirement..   good luck!

Answer 2

Yes

you will be under a national contract which provides good health benefits and vacation and retirement.

If y ou are looking at train service you will be working nights, weekends, holidays, your anniversary and your kids' birthdays.

It can be incredibly frustrating and not everyone can handle the lack of schedule and structure.

Others that are independent and do not require a rigidly structured lilfetsyle do quite well in it.

It has been called a good living but a lousy life.

I get frustrated at times but I cant imagine a job where I knew exactly where I was going to be and what I was going to be doing every day after day.

Answer 3

CSX seems to be hiring, but they are also putting a lot of those new hires on furlough (laid off).  It's hard to say if it's a good job for new hires these days.  If you get to stay on, however, the pay is pretty good if you don't mind not having a set schedule and your family doesn't mind you being gone at any hour of the day or night.  It isn't like you will be gone for weeks at a time.  Most jobs just work long hours, or you may have to go to a different down for a day and come back the next.  You can only work for 12 hours at a time, and you can only work on lines that you have memorized, so you rarely travel more than 300 miles in any direction (a day's travel or less).  

They say that a railroader is a hobo with a well-to-do family, and that's true.  You can tell if a guy's a railroader because he's dressed like a bum, but he has safety glasses and a $500 radio.

Answer 4

depends... what kind of job?  Conductor, trackworker, signal maintainer, management... No job on the railroad is a good job, it simply pays well.  The last few years the railroad has seen a change in attitude, and it's been for the worse.  If you want in, prepare to be worked to death, then furloughed in the winter like you mean nothing.