UR WELCOME, K9!!! Lasted about 2 hours, 4 mins didn't it?! :evil: :lol:

 

Problem for me is it would be dramatically lighter. Driving a forklift around only pays $7 an hour.Because you can't live on $14,500 a year.That much I absolutely can't disagree with. It seems like trucking is the last stop, and I shouldn't have done this until I was 50. Once "truck driver" is your last job, forget about getting anything else. You're stuck here until you fall over dead.

 

There is a lot to be said about an income. My salary is waged at $26/hr & union & excellent benefits. I dont work OT, cuz I dont get paid for it. Yes, it sounds gravy but I hate my job.........I am leaving it in 3yrs to drive truck.....that pretty much tells you a lot. I have been working here 20yrs waiting for my kids to grow up.....i will soon have my chance.

 

Is there some way the Mods could, like, APPEND the last post to every post ColdFrostymug makes??

That would be awesome! :lol:

 

Most drivers work far more than 55 hrs a week and don't make nearly the money that many (most) executives do.

 

You make it sound like that is your only option. I don't understand that mentality of alot of truckdrivers, (and alot of people in general). The mentality of "It's either drive a truck or work in a factory."

Anyone of average intelligence, and above average work ethic and drive can do almost anything they put their minds to. The possibilities are vast.

 

I didn't see anything wrong with his post.

 

Maybe even longer!! :lol: :lol:


Good idea! :wink:

 

Completely agree with you. I did this after being in banking and management. I chose this career because I like it. I know I can leave tomorrow and do well in whatever I do. I've always been the one to advance in any position I've ever worked and don't see that ever changing. Put your mind to it and you can do anything.

 

So what do you do for a living?

I could only afford to spend three months exploring these "vast possibilities" you speak of. I didn't want to to broke, so I went back to driving a truck.

Even working in a factory isn't an option around here. The big factory just kicked 1500 people to the street. As a truck driver, I make more than 77% of people living in this county.

There are folks around here living in more expensive houses than mine, driving fancier cars than mine, and statistics imply they must be living like that because they're in debt up to their eyeballs, and teetering on the brink of financial ruin.

I looked extremely seriously at moving, and it just doesn't add up. I have skills to get me jobs somewhere other than here, somewhere other than trucking, but I couldn't maintain the same lifestyle in another town, another profession, on what I could earn, and what I would have to pay for housing and other bills.

I really don't see any alternatives unless I can afford a 50-75% pay cut. Period. It's not that there is nothing else I could do, but that there is nothing else I could survive on without sacrificing everything I've worked so hard to build.