Dream Job

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by motocross25, Jul 30, 2017.

  1. Fold_Moiler

    Fold_Moiler Road Train Member

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    Something like the host of top gear, but I’d fail because only the original top gear is worth watching.
     
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  3. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Ive already had several jobs that was not work. Just play time. It's not just a JOB...

    Believe it or not I once dreamed of going into Armor as a tank gunner as a child. (Sue me...) but eventually the USA's Military standards do not allow for my handicaps to do that or anything really.

    It's pretty specific to carry a dream as a kid. However enter the real world and the work I have done all over and realized that if I did not get into trucking, I would have gone to sea or into the air. Leaving trucking aside, I found feeding a ready mix with a wheeled CAT 936 loader with rock and sand some of the best work there is. It's literally not work. It's playtime. Sure I have to get out and shovel a couple acres worth of scattered rock or grease that beast, but it's all good. If not the best.

    The thing I think I unnecessarily hold on to most is employers look down the nose at me and say sorry child you cannot do this work. They know nothing and I have long since let it go because I have found other employers in time willing to let me have a go at it and do well.

    I think I said enough. When I started working at about 19, my parents harped on pensions, 401k and so on etc etc etc. Until they themselves were downsized and eliminated early from the work force when not yet 50. And the jobs went over seas in the 90's from a Baltimore point of view with that industry going bye bye for the most part. I knew it was time to get out of Maryland. That was one of the better things I ever did in this life. If you aint happy somewhere, get out. And go find it however far away it might be.
     
  4. hannafarms

    hannafarms Light Load Member

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    Old thread but I think about this daily... like if I won lottery what would I do. Easy own my own rig and end dump. But gotta start playing lottery to win lol
     
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  5. Six9GS

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    I guess my dream job was one I actually had back when I was in the Air Force. I was in Europe in the mid eighties working in a special projects type intelligence outfit. I was an electronics technician in the Air Force. But, I had 4 years of Metal Shop in high school and had done lots of mechanical work on motorcycles and cars. Once my outfit caught wind of my other skills, they utilized them whenever and wherever needed. I got to help build 'interesting' things, install racks of electronic equipment, cables and antennas in 'interesting' locations. I got to work with engineers building and modifying all sorts of electronic 'things'. It was a great job that was also something important to do and leaving that job is one of the few regrets I have (it had to do with a female, of course). It had a great versatility. I could be working in our machine shop building stuff or in a white lab coat helping an engineer design nifty electronics things, or out in the field in some foreign country climbing towers installing antenna pedestals and antenna arrays. I did all that depending on what task we had to do and where I was most needed.
     
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  6. Brandonpdx

    Brandonpdx Road Train Member

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    I don’t think “dream” and “job” are two words that really belong together. A dream life would be one of infinite leisure and travel and enough money to realistically do whatever you felt like doing but never had the time or money to actually do. (Because of said job and other responsibilities.)
     
  7. hannafarms

    hannafarms Light Load Member

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    I would still buy my own semi and run on my authority but if it’s a dream I have lots of money and run when I want where I want
     
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  8. PureLeafTea

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    Amish buggy repair man who secretly won the lotto so no worries about money not that I need a lot. No technology, no cell phones and around good decent people all day.

    Perfect.
     
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  9. Goldenfan

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    So you're saying all Amish are good people?? Wow you must not live around many. They make the news here and we don't have that many.
     
  10. Goldenfan

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  11. JoeTruck

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    I like driving but hate shippers and receivers.
    Cardboard load rejected today because it was dusty and now dispatch can't figure out what to do.
     
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