O'Reilly Auto Parts Delivery/Route driver

I think that ship kind of sailed after I turned down the Shamrock offer for the second time. The driver-facing cameras, along with the split-days off, were the things that finally made me run away from that. I was willing to give Sysco a try since I hear they offered 4on/3off right off the bat despite them having cameras as well. But along with Ben E Keith and Estes applications, some trucking companies are getting as bad as white-collar companies when it comes to those "CANNED, REJECTION EMAILS".

They simply say they found some other "suitable candidate" and that while you weren't necessary disqualified, to try again. I've simply decided to say "f--- the canned emails" and just phone/visit bomb them as a form of a "light, shake-down". In this vein, I know you can't always get what you want, but I'm no 23 year old, recent college grad trying to work her pretty little self up from coffeeshopland either.

On a lighter note, that rollover accident from October 2007 that I had with Swift, along with the employment termination there, becomes ten years old this October. Perhaps then I could possibly experience some "odds falling in my favor"(I prefer this long winded term over the mythological, "good luck") as far as putting in apps with a fuel hauling outfit. I've got the HAZMAT and my tankers, not to mention the hours and days they work seem to be more in line with what I prefer.(ie,. nights, days off on in the mid-week,.etc)

And yes Big Don, while the temperatures and weather up there are a wild-card, the rental and housing prices along the Front Range are definitely out of control for some place without 365, AZ or CA type weather. Some say it's the weed legalization, myself and many others think it's years of CA-coastal money taking too many winter trips up there and deciding the Front Range needs to become another "Communications Tech Mecca" like the Bay Area or Seattle. I've done plenty of group bicycle activities up in Boulder in the recent months and while that pocket of the Denver Metro has its own charm, it's definitely a place that requires a sizable wallet.

 

I'm actually in my 30s. And I was always under the impression that weekends off were the one thing that everyone was always fighting for. I also already work nights as it is. Don't mind it and I prefer it very much to the day shift.
As far as changing careers goes, everyone who suggests that must think it too is an easy thing that could be done. College costs money, I don't mind going back to school, but school isn't cheap and I'm not going to be a different type of fool and take on loans(don't qualify for grants anymore) just to continue a chain of fail/repeat of courses to run up a loan amount that would make my pickup truck note look like a mere, restaurant tab.
And while I get what you're saying, I just don't want to have to deal with seeing therapists again in my life. Yeah, risking it all and then actually making big money in a supposed center of production might be good for a year or so. But I could see all gains being lost after my anti-social tendencies I tried to bury rear their ugly head again and I'm back in some pshrinks office after an incident at work, or in the city some place.
Speaking of which, I relocated out to NM from the misery land of California. Dump on me all you want for leaving the state, but I honestly feel that going to Texas or Colorado is going to be the same as returning to that overpopulated/regulated cesspool.
Only thing I could honestly do right now that you're suggesting is what I'm already doing:
-Working at night and loving it? Check.
-Getting expensive pickup truck paid off? Check.
-Prepare myself to go into anti-social mode in order to survive different days off with different people? Check.

The walls are closing in on me and while it's a nuclear option, I will move if I have to. I just don't want anyone to say things will be better for me on the social aspect. Like you're implying, the biggest thing I should focus on, especially since I'M IN MY 30s, is getting the bills paid off and plotting a debt-free, exit course out of this particular arena. I'm quite sure I could survive without social activities and be a solo-weirdo on any new days off I have to deal with. I mean, I already survive pretty well without a woman by my side. So there's that.

 

As for those days where I won't be able to ride bicycles with my 400-500 deep crew, I've recently acquired this. Now I just got to wait on the bonded title.
Take a little blue, to chase some blues away there, Mr LoneCowboy.

 

I'll be honest and say that I wasn't aware of the Californianizing being that widespread. Developers are just greedy people and riding that Capitalistic horse into the ground. Once they've soiled one swath of what was once pristine land, they seek out another unsuspecting target. Thankfully, some areas are catching onto the scam and doing what they can to push them out.
From the longtime residents fighting gentrification in downtown LA, to parts of still empty, southern Colorado organizing themselves against outside investors.

As for me, I just lie and say I'm actually from Kingman AZ. Looks eerily similar to Victorville to give the lie some backing.