Newbies, want to make $100K

no it doesnt pay that well, but if i cared that much about money i wouldnt be driving trucks. i drive trucks because i love it.

and secondly i drive locally, i'm home every night. i work mon, tue, wed, thursday off, work fri sat. sunday off. i can change my days off during the week at anytime i want to except sunday thats always off. i make 31200 a year on salary, i work an average of 7 hours a day, my boss always takes care of me, i got real sick in november with mono, i was out almost 2 weeks straight i had only been there for 6 months (i've been here 8 months now) and he paid me for the time i was off. if customers give me a hard time he calls them and gets them off my back. we dont play the kiss ##### game here, with that being said i always take care of my customers that are good to me.

am i getting rich? nope. am i making a decent living wage? yup. am i doing pretty good for a 23 year old highschool drop out with a GED? yup. i own a house already. i'm happy where im at for now in life. i plan on going OTR and becoming an O/O in the future and hopefully down the road own a somewhat decent trucking company but who knows.

 

Good for you..congrats and thanx for your efforts..i thank everyone who works for a living..

 

NICE!!! Driving for a pharmaceutical must be a good gig - drug companies pay good, from the chemists, to the salesmen......

 

Guess what?.they lied to you.
If they told you they are doing $100,000 a year and home everynight...they are probably still laughing at you for believing that 1.

 

well not to get all oprah winfrey on ya but just a few years ago my goals in life were not to be doing the right thing. i assumed i'd wind up in jail or in a motorcycle gang and to be honest i was fine with that. i was 18, 19, my life up until that point had been nothing but hard times. i tell you this with a heavy heart, the things i've dealt with and faced in life have made me hard and its not something i say to brag about or be cool. its the only way i can deal with the ###### up things i have to live with.

i do want to make lots of money, i will some day, my house is a decent house, like i said i fully intend on going OTR, then when i am able to i will refinance my house, buy a truck straight up cash. if i were to NET 50k as an O/O i could pay my house off in 4 years. i only have a 100k loan. i dont care about living in a 500k house, living the stereo typical american dream. honestly my dream would be to have a trucking business's where i'm not running all the time and i can enjoy life i feel i deserve after all the #### i've been threw in life, and i'm using all those hard times as the drive to get over obstacles in my way. if i lose a job, no big deal, i've seen much worse, i'll find a new job. i am behind on bills need to catch up great ill get there no big deal. see what im sayin? i dont wanna make 31200 a year for the rest of my life, im just sayin i could never wear the uniforms and drive the bread trucks. and im not too much of a fan of the whole jump threw the hoops at the unions but thats my PERSONAL OPINION. not saying its not a great career for someone, just not my cup of tea and if im not happy with my job i lose my sanity and absolutely no pay check is worth me going crazy over

 

umm..how does making $25 and hour buy me a $500,000 dollar home and a $37,000 truck..

Avg payment on a 15year fixed at avg interest rates on $500,000 house would be roughly $4,000 a month and the payment on a $37,000 trck would $700-800 a month...excuse me but...even without taxes..social security or food....that still adds up to more than your Gross pay?

Please explain?

 

my uncle is a master plumber of 25 years and for a while he worked doing outside sales. he got something like 25 cents a mile on top of 100k guaranteed a year no matter what he sold. his final year they raised him to 120k. he's back to doing plumbing for himself now though. i swear they cant take the blood of us blue collar guys, we just love working and love what we do and even though the dollar might call our name into a slightly different field it seems they always get pulled back into where they started their passion. im ok with that!! its happened to me, i started driving at a lumber yard, figured when the economy tanked i would go back to doing carpentry and screw driving, somehow i wound up back in the drivers seat and this time i'm not leaving!!