Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself....

Here's the scoop.... at 55 years of age I find myself unemployed!! Had my own business doing architectural drafting for six years and ran out of work in the first part of 2009. Yep.... that sucked! Got a offer to join one of my clients staff as a project manager down in St. Pete/Tampa area and took it with hopes that the wife was going to find work and we'd relocate to the area.

You guessed it.... a year later the house hasn't sold, she's applied at twenty or so hospitals (she's a registered nurse and in middle management) and either over-qualified or under-qualified for the positions she's applied for.

So after a year away from home I decide it's time to make a move.... Heck, if I'm going to be away from home at least I should look to cut my expenses and see the rest of the U.S. out a winshield in the process. Besides, it costs a sh!+ load to try and live in two places at once!!!!

Anyway, I'll get to the point here.... Always wanted to be a trucker, can't find a job here in NW Florida at 55 years old in my profession, and figured it's time for a new career path. So that makes me a "wannabe" and I figured this is a great place to get the "real" inside scoop! I've been looking around about schooling and what companies have to offer and hope I'll get some good advice here!

So let me get started with my first question.... as a regional company driver is it realistic to expect to be home every seven to ten days or so? I figure the first year that won't be possible.... but in the long term a workable situation!?

Thanks for the "ear" and look forward to being a part of the trucking community! Hope this hasn't bored you to death!

 

Thanks for the welcome Lil May....

 

Thanks for the welcome MassHole.... pardon, but that's a heck of a screen name!? Is that a reference to Massachusetts being a great place to live?

 

Thanks for the reply Orion.... I'm not too worried about the change in income. We just finished putting our son through college. That's one less expense we've got to worry about. So now it's just the wife and me at home. Besides, at our ages we've come pretty dang far! As far as a new career path and basically starting over.... I've always enjoyed a challenge and tried to make everything an adventure!

Heck, just ask my wife..... she'll tell how much of an adventure it's been being around someone so mentally challenged!!!

BTW.... great pic at the bottom of your posts!