Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You decide to wait for another opportunity.
You know not everyone is cut out for working at the baggage service area,
and that it's not the only indoor job available. You explain your reservations
to the union representative and human resources manager. Both suggest you
may want to apply to work in the baggage sorting area the next time an opening
comes up. It requires a good knowledge of all baggage destinations and routes,
but you work behind the scenes.
You take their advice and feel a sense of relief that you aren't being
encouraged to make a move you're not comfortable with.
A year later you bid on a job in the baggage sorting area. You get the
job and love the work.
Baggage handler Al Schmidt says he bid on a baggage sorting job when he
got sick of working cold days on the ramp. Typically, an employee has to have
six or seven years of experience to get into the baggage area.
"You have to know all the destinations and codes," he explains. "It's
not something you could do off the street." Schmidt says it can get a little
crazy moving thousands of pieces of luggage each day, but he likes it. "You
have to like the job; otherwise, you can't stay here."