Just got my CDL! Thinking of swift

If I have an employment gap I call it self-employment...
Would not disclose homelessness and financial troubles...
Don't sign long term contracts...you just need experience,in a few month you'll be able to find something better than Swift...

 

Get rid of your drug use and homeless narrative. Could be a red flag for people who don't understand. Try to create a positive story by cherry picking the best things you've been doing. Im telling you this from personal experience.

 

Some carriers care about gaps of employment, some do not. That statement was aimed at non-trucking employment. Speaking from experience. Many of the more smaller regional companies couldn't care less what you did before you came into a truck.

 

And so to confirm that both of you are guilty of tax evasion and fraud?
It doesn't sound promising to me as a viable option to explain your gaps in employment.

 

Honesty is the best policy. I had to provide an address where I lived for the last ten years for my job.

 

I know am! I have "lied" about past homelessness and committed "fraud" because instead I focused on my best achievements.. hahaha what dumb concept. you don't need to tell the world about homelessness.

 

All I am really saying is this. If you read the original poster first post, his first paragraph is completely unnecessary. Its too much information that isn't anyone's business. He should begin with his second paragraph. These days people think it's important to tell all of their personal hardships because it shows them to be street-smart and resourceful. I now argue that even in the midst of those problems he could find a list of "positives" that he was doing such as preparing for CDL school, helping family, or whatever he did besides drink and fail at life. I bet he could make a list. Personally, I like people who came back from the edge of life and are better now because of it. But there is a place and time for those admissions. Job interviews or orientation might not be it. Focus on the things you did that actually help you get that job. Internalize a new definition of yourself. Then when you explain yourself people don't just here about your struggles like chemicals and homelessness. Its not fraud. Not what I said.