By zimbos_05 - 9 Jul 2013 5:09 PM
Ok, so there is a job opportunity at Flight Centre. Ive always had a passion for travel and would love to get involved in travel. The job is 5-7 days a week. Ill be working in their call centre taking calls and helping people with their online bookings and so on. Shifts are 8 hours and you can start at either 5am, 6,am, 7am and 8 am for morning shifts or you start 4pm, 6pm, 7pm or 8pm for afternoon/evening ones.
You get paid 30k base salary a year plus whatever commissions you make on sales. It would require plenty of working hours and shit load of work to get commissions up so you can reach your targets. If you dont reach the targets, it comes our of your pay check.
My current job i only work about 8-20 hours a week and get paid nicely, but it suits my lifestyle. I know i need to find a stable job, but dont want a job that will take away from my life so to speak and the travel sector is one i dont mind. I also would love to find something in media but at the moment that looks like never happening in Brisbane or Australia for that matter.
I also want to go England hopefully end of the year to do my coaching badges, so i need money for that. So im not sure if i stick it out at flight centre for a few months and make the effort to get the cash. They said it usually takes about 2-3 months to actually start seeing results. Or maybe i stick with my current job where i have a nice balance or work and free time or how do i ask them for more time so i can earn more, because my current work does pay nicely.
Anyone know of anyone who works or worked with flight centre or what recommendations you can give me.
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By pv4 - 10 Jul 2013 2:50 PM
Not sure what I'd do then mate. The Flight Centre thing sounds like it could create a whole host of opportunities in the future - travel agent (personal or corporate), all that rubbish.
My hesitation would be when it comes to livelihood I'm a worst-case-scenario kind of guy. All my budgets and everything are based around no bonuses being paid and no overtime and all that rubbish. It means on bad weeks, I'm exactly where I expect to be, whilst on good weeks I'm ahead. I couldn't imagine working 40+ hours, being told to be available 7 days a week, for take-home around $500 or less p/w, being THAT much fun. But I guess apprentices get that and less, and putting it into the grand scheme in that you're developing a skills set and something different on your resume, it may be worth it
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