<p>My brother in law worked for UPS for 30 years; the first 25 were as a loader/driver, and the last 5 were as a manager. He actually took a cut in pay to be a manager, as his body could no longer take the pounding. He drove for over two decades,and was in two accidents; neither was his fault. The second put him in the hospital for a week and left him a concussion and with recurrent back and shoulder problems, which he still has. He was in the rain, snow and heat for years.
And not sure what you mean by “full benefits”; first, while the retirement benefits are good, you still pay for the health insurance, etc, and the retirement salary is a % of your annual pay-in other words, there’s nothing “full” about it(nobody gets 100% of their pre-retirement salary)-and regarding benefits-you pay for what you get. So it’s important to note that “full” doesn’t mean “free.”
And yes, she finds the idea attractive; UPS is actively recruiting women, so she could get a job pretty quickly if she wanted one. My guess is she won’t. There’s something about the medical field which leads to a lot of complaining about salary; frankly, if you want to get rich head into tech or bond trading or similar. And this business of comparing medicine to being a package delivery driver is ludicrous; there is not physician anywhere who’d trade jobs. Say what you want about medicine, but it’s indoor work with no heavy lifting.<br>
The grass is always greener, I guess, but comparing these two jobs is what could most politely be described as an incomplete comparison.</p>