Shell, the best thing you can do is get out and find a job and get back into college. It will do your self esteem a lot of good to start earning your own money. There are grants and loans for those who cannot afford to go to college. I would recommend going to work and saving the money to pay your way through school. If you want to learn how to drive a truck, you will need to either finance the training yourself or wait until you are older before most carriers will hire you. You can get the CDL at your age, but will find it difficult to do so without a truck. If you were older, there are some carriers who will train you as long as you agree to work for them for a specified amount of time, usually 1 year. The problem is that unless you stick with them you will be on the hook for the cost of your training. You have at least 2 years before most carriers will hire you due to insurance requirements. The problem you have right now is that you have too much time on your hands. Go find a job. If nothing else, you can to work at one of the fast food restaurants. Most of them pay fairly well for what you do. If nothing else, it will keep you busy until you decide what you want to do with your life. Right now, you have it pretty easy living at home. Perhaps some of the problems you are having at home is due to you not getting out and doing something with your life.

 

Many companies offer their employees educational benefits; they will pay for your tuition and some other fees as long as you make acceptable grades.

One thing is for certain; in the years that you have been sitting at home, the world has not come knocking at your door, trying to figure things out for you.

As G-Man so correctly pointed out, at 21 y/o, you are too young to be driving a big truck; irrespective of your age, you are FAR too dysfunctional and immature to be behind the wheel of a big truck, be it OTR, Intrastate, or local.

So, you want to LEARN to drive a big truck??? Get off of your ass and go talk to a military recruiter!!! They will train you, and you will have some solid experience under your belt by the time you get out!!! Who knows?? You certainly would not be the first dysfunctional person who grew up in a dysfunctional family, and then found a home!!

Translation: Every branch of The U.S. Military has dealt with your type before, many, many times; after all was said and done, many of those dysfunctional souls who were drowning in their own self pity grew to become excellent soldiers, gained some respect for themselves, earned the respect of others, and found a new path in life that actually worked for them!!!!

Can you dig it, little brother??? 8)

 

you better join the military. see the world, get laid and grow up. you got some college and no drug abuse maybe you could be an aviator.

 

I got an early retirement from the military back in October. Got paid good money and was provided good benefits while there. GI Bill for education was one of the benefits. Also got to go to Japan once, Saudi Arabia once, and Germany twice. Along with some stateside locations like San Antonio. The military is a good gig to start with.

 

Why did you drop out of college? Why haven't you worked? Sounds like a crap work ethic combined with a crap attitude. Thats going to hurt when you apply.....

Join the army, work on an offshore oil rig, etc. Plenty of options for you.

I didn't read page 2 and 3, this just addresses the first post.

 

B/C, having worked in the oil patch, offshore drilling, and being that I am currently involved in the oil and gas industry, I truly do not believe that he would last long in the oilfields, much less offshore drilling. He would be a serious danger to himself, and to the other members of the drilling crews.

Based upon my experience, a drilling rig (especially offshore drilling) is a place where men go to work and make a decent living; it really is not a place for a boy who needs to grow up and become a man!! It is not a place for someone who can not or will not sit on his own bottom.

The nature of working on a drilling rig is dangerous. If you are not completely focused upon what you are doing, AND what your brothers on the drill site are doing, (and you'd dammed well better think of your co-workers as your brother) you can easily injure yourself, or someone else. I've seen many a Roughneck with broken fingers, or fingers missing, or injured in other ways, all because someone missed a cue or wasn't paying proper attention.

Would you want to rely on this kid for your own personal safety?? Of course, the same holds true for the trucking industry as well.

This kid needs to go stand in front of a mirror, and ask himself if he is going to remain a boy living in a man's body, or if he is going to pick himself up, and become the man that he should be.

I maintain that the U.S. Military is where he should be looking.

 

Well, the oil rig thing was just an option he has, although it may not be the best one. :wink: