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hill1023:
I have 6 months experience as a Junior (3 months at Portsmouth and 3 months w/ Energy Solutions in Oak Ridge. After my contract w/ Energy Solutions ended the first of Sept. (2010) I took a position as an 89-day laborer with Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab. The last day on my contract will be Dec 6th. I took the position with ORNL with the hope that I could possibly get hired on full time. However, I was just offered a Junior position for the outage in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks. It starts Nov. 8th and I would make about 4 or 5 times more money each week with this position. What do you guys think is the best move here because I'm fairly certain that I leave ORNL before my contract is up it will pretty much ruin any chance (and I have no clue what my chances are) of getting hired on permanently there. On the same hand the outage is a lot of money to pass up. Also what are the chances of the Junior position lasting longer than the scheduled 8 weeks because I have never worked an outage? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

5kip6:
One thing u need to look at is getting your Junior time in.  In order to do this you need to take all junior positions that are offered to you.   The sooner you become a Senior the better for you.  Jobs are plentiful, you will have more choices, Nuke and DOE. and make alot more money.   Depending on your situation, meaning if you are single and young.  I would advise you to take the job.   To be working into late Dec. is a good thing.  Especially with the Spring outages right around the corner,   Lots of outages scheduled next year,  need to jump on to some of those.  That way you will only be out of work for a few weeks in between.   I am a senior and pretty much work 7-8 months out of year.  Sometimes get long term and work most of year.  Projects going on at a lot of sites that hire techs for these positions.  Go for it!!!  Who has the contract for the outage in Hawaii?   I am sure they have more work. 

hill1023:
What makes it a tough decision is that I am from the Oak Ridge area and getting hired on full time there would be great for me. However I have no idea what my chances of that would be like I posted earlier. I'm not that familiar with outages. Are there a lot of opportunities for Juniors in the Spring?

Fermi2:
So basically you want someone else to help you justify breaking a contract you signed?

5kip6:
Not sure how many junior positions there are.  Check with Bartlett, DZ Atlantic, Etc.  If you have a chance to stay at Oak Ridge  then do so.   After all it is home for you and being on the road 7 to 8 months of year is no picnic.

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