Pros
Great salary, particularly considering the fact that no college degree is required. You only work eight hours a day 5 days a week, which is unusual.
Cons
If you have a degree of any kind do not become a Dispatcher it’s a tremendous waste of time, many of the managers of Dispatchers have no degree and it shows. I’m not saying they’re bad at what they do but they are not innovative or supportive or developmental, they do just enough to eak-bye and that’s it. The senior level managers have very little respect for Dispatchers particularly those managers within HDC, we’ve had a new VP and the man has never even spoken to us which says it all. If you would like a job with no growth potential then this may be for you, however: You’re on call 331 days out of the year 24 hours a day (taking into account vacation, 2 days off a month and 3 personal days) Your schedule may vary from working 1st shift (Yep Shift Work) to 2nd shift to 3rd shift have a day on call then back to 1st. So be prepared to sleep whenever, also random drug and alcohol screenings which means no more having a beer even when you’re not scheduled to work.
