Pros
If you have a decent contracting company ,hang on to them, Made some good friends there but most like all contractors I'd worked with in previous places 4 days on 3 days off ( if you work weekends)
Cons
I had to train people who would later take over my job at 1/2 pay. If you work weekends you will never get switched , they will just let you off with no pay,even for a family event and someone is willing to swap out with you they would not (at least me) do it . Frequent sudden layoffs - I worked for these people 4 years. Not sure about weekdays but the weekend shift never got an hour of over time the whole 4 years I was there .Sometimes that shift only gets 3 days. Terrible communication Was threatened with violence die to my nationality ( and no I am not from Mexico or South America) Cannot tell you how many aircraft I had to go back and re do others dangerous mistakes -see #1 Good old boy culture alive and well . I had no clue about parties ,get togethers or wellness fairs they have until my wife saw one scheduled online somewhere . Pay slowly went down over the years until I quit when It reached $5000 less a year . They blamed it on Wa min wage - that's only downtown Seattle and the col is skyrocketing here.