Need Some Work Advice

[arrogantmodel]

There's a ton of thoughtful people on here. I could really use some input. Here's my situation:

Last year I started working for a major league baseball team. I run their press dining room. Badically I set up the room and press box and am around the cameramen and announcers for the home and visiting teams. Very easy, very fun, and well paying job. However, it is seasonal and temporary obviously. Also, when the team is away, I don't work.

I looked for another job during and after the season, and literally nobody contacted me back. So I tell the team I would come back this season. However, a new restaurant called about a job. It's brand new, closer to home, and also pays well.

I told them at the interview I do the baseball thing, and they said they could work with that. So I've been doing my training at both places, and the restaurant wants me to be like a major player in the front of the house. So what should I do?

See how long I can work both jobs and get as much money as possible? Give up the temporary/seasonal baseball gig?

The baseball stadium is about 45 mins. from my house. The restaurant is about 20. Both places are super nice and like my work. If the restaurant had been up and running sooner, I would have ditched the baseball job. But now the restaurant opens on Monday, and the first home game is Friday.

I hate to leave the baseball people hanging a week before opening day, but I also don't want the restaurant to think I don't want to be there. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I'd watch for the baseball team trading you for some kind of alcoholic chicken drink.

It's happened before.

[Urethra Franklin]

Honestly, if you're up for it, try to keep both going at once.

If that's overwhelming, stick with the one you think suits you best. Working at a baseball stadium sounds great and a lot of fun, but you say it's further away, so perhaps, the restaurant might be the better idea.

Another thing to consider is that you know what you're getting with the press box. You've done it for a few years, so there shouldn't be any surprises. It's very possible you're not going to like the restaurant. Maybe wait and see.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I think you work both but tell the baseball guys that you're needing to leave and will stay on for as long as they need you to, and you do exactly that.

[The Thread Barbi]

Don't know your personal needs, but for me stability is key over and above a temp job with perks and good money.

If you walk away from the baseball, you'll always have it on your resume.

However, that being said, you're well liked by two employers, so why not carry on as long as possible.

[arrogantmodel]

I appreciate all the advice, especially the Seinfeld reference.

I can do both. But my schedule is like 3 to 6 game homestands, and then 3 to 6 games off. And on the off days, I can work whenever the restaurant needs me to. My schedule stays the same for the baseball games. I always go in at the same time depending on the start of the game.

I am mostly concerned about burnout and the restaurant thinking I don't want to be there. I just want to make as much money as possible while I can, and I have been totally up front with the restaurant people. I run the baseball dining room, I have to and am expected to be there for the 81 home games.

This is a new dilemma for me. I had two shit jobs for years, now I seemingly have two great ones.

[The Thread Barbi]

Burnout pal? Vince McMahon got you sorted

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-20/the-vince-mcmahon-school-of-productivity

[Deleted]

I'd say stick with the baseball gig (or do both w priority given to the baseball gig). It may be seasonal, but there's a better chance of it being around for a while than a restaurant that just opened up. If the restaurant had been around for a few years, that might be a different story.

Also, since the baseball gig is seasonal it opens you up to find other gigs in the off-time.

[Powerline]

First off, I wouldn't worry about the whole "nobility" thing or "hating to leave them hanging". When it comes to jobs, you gotta look out for you and be a little selfish or else you're gonna get eaten up. In the end, YOU have to make the best decision for YOU (and your family or those directly impacted by your financial life, should that apply). Not the ballpark, not the restaurant, you gotta be in it for you. And again, not to sound like a dick, but it doesn't sound like the highest-level job at the ballpark. From the impression I get in your first post (unless I missed it or you left that part out), it sounds like the ballpark gig is an entry level job and they've never bumped you up to any higher position. If that's the case, they'll find somebody else.

That having been said, if you truly ENJOY the job and want to balance them both, I'd do that. But if the restaurant wants you to do more front-of-house stuff and it's more a step-up and less a step-to-the-side (as in "same pay, same hours, just a different role"), I'd run with the people who are putting some extra stock in you.

[Red Impact]

I'd do both for as long as they allow you to. If the restaurant signed off on it, they should be cool with it, but I'd check in every so often to make sure.

[arrogantmodel]

I just started at the park last year. I started in the high end restaurant there, and after the two people who ran the media dining room quit, I got "promoted" after two months.

I keep getting told, they want me to be the "new blood" and they promote from within as well. I really just want to do the cash grab, and have this be my final year for the baseball job. Driving there almost everyday is rough.

Again, your advice is very much appreciated. All good points, thank you.

[Reflecto]

Not only should you do both (and inform the new restaurant about it), you should tell the new restaurant in advance about the position with the baseball team and you'd need to not work the days of the games.

If this is a new restaurant, you don't think they'd be over the moon about saying "our [x] is so highly thought of he also serves for the [name of the baseball team]?" Just having you would give the restaurant more prestige as long as you work there...and naturally, the prestige would make you get more money and get your name out for chances to find more money still on your resume.

[arrogantmodel]

Again, I greatly appreciate your advice. Thank you. 😊

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

Mar 30, 2017 13:56:39 GMT -5 @personman01 said:

I'd say stick with the baseball gig (or do both w priority given to the baseball gig). It may be seasonal, but there's a better chance of it being around for a while than a restaurant that just opened up. If the restaurant had been around for a few years, that might be a different story.

Also, since the baseball gig is seasonal it opens you up to find other gigs in the off-time.

I agree with this. What happens if the new gig goes under? 9/10 startup businesses close down after their first year.

If anything, have fun!

[arrogantmodel]

This is the restaurants 9th location, I think. They're pretty secure. I have no problem working there full time after the season, because I think this will be my last year doing the baseball thing.

I enjoy both, and like I said, I just really want to make as much money as I can with this possibly being my last year there. But the commute is rough.