During your first year with Stevens Transport, how many States did you drive through?

you should really keep your story coordinated. Claims you negotiated your pay in the oil field, and made $30.00 per hour, but now you are going to truck driving school, and will be taking a drastic pay cut.... the whole story is NOT being told.

No surprise that you in your generation only value money. yet you won't invest in yourself to work in a stable environment where you actually make top dollar. An engineers degree in the oil field gets you a warm job, with starting pay twice what you made, and goes up from there, depending on your drive.

As I have said before, the real world has a lot more hard knocks and learning experiences for someone who only values money.

 

No, I negotiated my pay where I currently work(non-oilfield related)

I could go 100k in debt to get a degree or I could learn a truck for free and either get authority or become a broker as I learn the industry better after a few years. Again, you have to look at input costs, there's plenty of "rich" doctors who don't actually get ahead financially until they're near retirement age, they live in debt not wealth, one wrong market turn and they're bankrupt and foreclosing(see. 2008). Not many doogie howser's out there in the real world. Engineers are being outsourced more and more to Asian countries anyway, I know several engineers and for the work they do they are underpaid. Again, work smart, not hard. Why manually plow a field when you can use a tractor. That whole "paying your dues" working for free is just as outdated of a concept. The world is moving forward whether you or these bottom feeding companies like it or not.

 

Btw you can become a tool pusher and make double what I did with NO college education required. Not to mention 99% of college degree required jobs they can teach a monkey to do in 5 minutes outside of science, legal, & medical very few jobs actually require a degree,

 

but the company doing the hiring does require the degree... and I know 3 BS of engineering working the oil fields, and make double what you claim, in the first year... and none of them are in debt. They do not do manual labor either. And none of them spent 100k to get the degree. Again, talking about things you KNOW nothing about.

And yet you spend day after day wanting to be a truck driver, that pays UP TO $65,000 a year... something is very fishy about your stories.

 

Nothing fishy about anything, some people just enjoy trying & doing different things and like variety. Some like to do the same thing for their whole life and retire from it. Different strokes for different folks. The most knowledgeable and fun people to be around I know all worked many different jobs & careers and have much more life experience than the guy who does the same thing day in and day out for 50 years straight. Much better networking and life skills when you have varied history of experiences. Keeps things fresh and not so monotonous.

Also like I said tool pushers make double, with NO college requirements and zero financial investment. So who comes out on top? The one with the lower input costs. WIth oil prices where they are now anyway I won't touch it until it goes back up, plenty of other jobs available that are more stable currently.

 

Slave to a sheckel...

Sad

 

So expecting to be paid for what you're worth is being a slave? Are you suggesting if I swear off money and just donate my time for free that means I won't be a slave?.....oh wait.....

 

All this typing about money this, work smarter not harder that. Yet at the end of the day you are here on a trucking forum typing the proverbial fume of words about how awesome you are. When you achieve half of what you talk about I'll know it because you won't be posting anymore. GL with that!

 

You have a distinct knack for not getting a point...

Chase your sheckels, I will enjoy life.

 

Actually that's what every company I've ever worked for says. Most employees are garbage, it's a fact of life. That's why I can command higher pay wherever I work. But nevermind that, you just enjoy working for your .10 a mile and running 10,000 miles a week and convincing yourself you're going somewhere in life.