do you guys regret choosing trucking as a profession?
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Trucking is what I always wanted to do and I waited until I was 40 to do it, the only thing I'd do differently is to start sooner.
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Re: do you guys regret choosing trucking as a profession?
Originally Posted by Josborn
Originally Posted by tropolis
you know, the typical if you could go back and do it all over again, would you question. some of you im sure cant get out of your profession due to job uncertainty and providing for your family.
so my question is, if you could do it all over would you still select truck driving as your profession?
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I don't regret leaving my last job. When you are the mop boy at the peep show there really isn't any room for advancement.
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I enjoy driving truck -it really is a great job. But the industry blows and I only stay in it because I've got a good-paying local gig, home everynight, and off every weekend/holiday. If not for that, I'd be a goner. No way will I live out of a 8X10 cell again and have to roll the dice to determine hometime. Nor will I ever work for .cpm...mileage pay sucks.
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My answer on this would be a bit mixed. If I hadn't been in such a hurry to hit the ground running, I might have gone to university instead, and found myself a better paying profession. As for driving, I don't regret it overall. I've had regrets about people I've worked for, and perhaps being a bit hasty to come off the road, and drive locally, instead. And I'm probably still going to piss and moan, because I'm a truck driver, and that's what we do, but I don't cry myself to sleep because I ended up being a truck driver instead of a pencil pusher, American Idol finalist, Chippendale's dancer, or what have you.
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Location: Time and again after 8 hours work like another blue collar worker. Got My life back. Good bye CPM.
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I usually tell people I hate it to keep the the competition down and pay up.
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I was one of those people who chose this profession with my eyes wide shut. I even worked for the company that I drive for currently *before* driving school & I still had my eyes wide shut! :shock: The drivers just weren't very forthcoming with the information & I didn't have the mental wherewithal to even consider that there might be a forum such as this one with viable information for someone considering taking the leap...
With that said, I have a loooonnnnggg list of cons when it comes to what I do. I think about jumping ship more days than not out of the week. However, the majority of those reasons have nothing to do with the actual driving... I have to add that even though I pushed my resume, interviewed, the whole nine yards and thought I was ready to leave... when offered some other employment I thought twice about whether or not I was ready to give it up... and then turned those offers down... I will say this - there are lessons I've learned about myself, people in general, business practices, this country (that there is one outside the city in which I "live"), *what it really means to work for ones pay*, etc. that I am not sure I would have learned had I not entered this profession. I will say that it is a lesson I will benefit from for the rest of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for what I might've become had I not done it... Perhaps one day I'll move on from driving, but I'm not sure I'll ever leave transportation. |
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