I spent 5 years as a machinist which was the bet job i ever had but here in Ohio from 2000-2005 about 250,000 jobs were lost in the manufacturing field and unfortunately mine was one of them.

I began to pursue a career in the medical field, there are plenty of jobs in the medical proffesion that pay extremely well ex, nursing, radiographer, respiratory therapist, these jobs have a starting pay pay ($32,000-$40,000) nursing starts around ($45,000-$50,000 and even higher).

You must consider that trucking may have its downsides but the medical field and all jobs do. In medical field you have to be in daily physical contact with patients who are dying, wounded, bleeding, intoxicated.

Imagine having to take x-rays of a 1 year old who was burned of 75% of thier body.

Having to clean people who cannot control thier bodily functions.

Watching a 13 yr old kid die of a heart attack.

Watching an 18 yr old kid die right in front of you from gun shot wounds.

See 10-15 people a day who are dying from cancer, many you have become friends with.

Having a patient spit on you or attemtp to attack you.

Having to clean a man's underpants after a drug overdose.....

Imagine sitting in a room for 5 hours with a guy who just hit a telephone head first on a motorcycle while going 45 MPH while the docs try to revive him.

Witnessing death on an almost daily basis and the effects it has on others

Imagine dealing with these types of things on a DAILY basis, maybe not everyday but many times a week

Plus having to work 3rd shift for the first 5 -10 years of your career.

Whats my point? All careers have thier good and bad sides, after going through some of the above...........driving a truck might not seem to be that bad

It would be an intersesting experiment but if you took 25 disgruntled OTR truckers and gave them jobs in an hopital ER and pay them the same amount of money that they made OTR, after being in close contact with ASS HOLE doctors and relentless nurses (both of which could have you fired easily) You might find many of these truckers would break thier necks to get back into a truck and be happy they did so.

Many careers thay pay well ($35,000-$55,000) have thier downsides...

I basically wrote this after reading the "Newbs be warned post" in which this person writes about the horror of OTR trucking......

Here is a little part of that post;

 

You make some valid points, ohiomohawk. You are right about there being a down side to ANY job. Life is full of trade offs.

 

Working in Healthcare is not for everyone.
Working in Trucking is not for everyone.

I don't get your point? How does one speak about a profession...
that they have not worked in,
and have only the bystanders TV version of?

I would praise you for you service in Healthcare....but....????
Anyway...what else as a student of Trucking...can you tell us about Truckers and how easy we have it compared to.......oh ....I don't know.....
how 'bout being a Cracker Salesman in Harlem? :?

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: A Cracker selling memberships for the KKK in Harlem :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Equally, it would be something of an experiment if you took 25 digruntled healthcare staff and placed them in trucks, woke them after 5 hours sleep, with very little real nutritional intake, vigorously and relentlessly pursued them all day on the phone, threaten their position, alienate them, force them to work beyond their legal hours, constantly introduce new legislation which could imprison them, but, don,t actively support any training in the new laws, then claim ignorance is no defence, ask members of the public to harass and abuse them, restrict their movement throughout the working day so that they inevitably suffer D.V.Thrombosis, Lower back pain etc, And finally, set such unrealistic performance related pay bonuses that they,ll never achieve them.

Point is, the grass in not always greener... As Gman rightly said

 

You are working for the wrong company. :roll:
I have none of these problems. I am home weekends, and bring in $1000+ per week.

I am happy

 

f.o

 

i am home 99% of the weekends Holidays off and make fairly good money Company dinner once a year and 3 weeks vacation a year only run 60 hours or less in 5 days just have to find the right company to work for there are good ones and bad ones Use to work for a company that treated you like crap

 

:P
If you dont see the point why post??

Where did I state trucking was easy???

Not looking for your or anyones praise.....

My point is some careers are easier, some careers are harder

 

The point is..what is easy to one person, is impossible to somebody else. Therefore no one career could be labeled "easy" and another "hard" because it all depends on the person involved, not the job itself.