Life dilemma

You proved Einstein theory in your post.

 

THAT is the one thing we have been doing big time last month. Nothing to do. Get out the old hobby stuff and start puttering. Where has it been all of our wasted life.

Go out make a hourly dollar for years slave and sweatshop your existance worried constantly of ruin if the boss does not think you are worth the expense. Never mind the rest of your miserable life.

HA the nerve.

There are going to be after this year is over and finished a PERNAMENT change among the people who say enough is enough no more BS 6.25 a hour. Pay me. 30.00 a hour or forget it. Might even dispose of the 5 day workweek. go to the european model of 4 days a week and the other 3 all yours.

If you think that the USA has FINALLY been off a WHOLE MONTH if not more and the world did not end nor did the people get punished for it. Much.... they are going to really love it.

 

I walked away from a $32/hr stay for life job that made everyone in it miserable, and in turn i made my family miserable... to move my family to a field in the woods and at times be very poor together. Best decision i ever made for all of us. We are happier than ever possible back up there. I have never said i miss that job or paycheck, it wasnt worth the misery. My father did 40 years there and said the same thing when he left early. My brother is still there and still miserable. Spends a lot on trinkets to medicate the misery.

You will not take one red cent of that UPS money with you when you die. Just memories.

But if leaving now is not an option and if you have young kids... How bout this. Suck it up, work your butt off and start looking for your dream project rig. Acquire it, little by little turn it into your escape machine to get your head out of UPS on weekends and keep your love for real truckin alive. When UPS makes you sick and the kids arent interested in you anymore, pull the trigger and go o/o in a sick truck.

Just make sure you save every receipt and start Up late in a calendar year with high income from UPS. Or maybe in a year where you take an early withdrawal from 401k with penalties,as startup money. You can add up and depreciate the accrued expenses of getting the truck ready to put into service. This will offset the high income taxes that come with that high job. The truck doesnt start generating revenue until you leave UPS.. Or else youre just bumping yourself into a higher tax bracket and giving the money away.

 

I do love having my own fleet of what I feel are pretty #### good looking and good working trucks with my name on the door. Dump Trucks and a Lowboy and some construction equipment to supplement them.

I often think about how much easier life would be, and how much more time I would have to enjoy life if I just walked away from it all tomorrow and took a job with one of customers who has their own trucks.


I'm way too far invested in things now to do that, but I always wonder about just how green the grass is over there!

 

Winner.
Right now, if you have a job, whether you like it or not isn’t all that important.

 

Gonna be interesting in the next few months how things play out.

Our big loads have slowed down. But we have enough flatbed freight to keep us busy. Not really what I want to do but it's keeping the money moving in a positive direction.

 

20yrs old and making upwards of 100k/yr? Without a high-priced college degree? You're going to want a family soon. They're going to put demands on you that you can't fulfill being OTR. 30 years at OOPS and you'll have your retirement, kids will be grown, wife will have 'empty nest' syndrome and the road will still be here. It will have changed, but so will you. You won't need to worry about bills, retirement has those covered. You won't have to worry about healthcare, retirement's your wing man there, too. You'll be able to enjoy being out here. Buy the truck you want, wait for the rates you want, pick the loads that go where you haven't been yet. Meanwhile, spend that 30yrs with your kids. There's always baseball, soccer, school recitals, all manner of things that you'll wish you had been there for after they're gone.

Take the gravy now. Get the meat later. There's things to enjoy at both ends AND you'll feel like you're challenging yourself more if you get back into OD later in life.

Edit: I didn't get to follow my dream of being an OTR driver until after I turned 40. I did many other things before then and dont regret any (most) of them. Life is what YOU make of it using what you have available at the time.

 

With the economy the way it is and likely to be for the next year or two or three, I'd be inclined to stay. But if this job is making you miserable and just sucking the life out of you, well...