I want.. no I NEED to be a trucker, but I have a bad history.

I am 32, and have not always been the best worker. I was married before and got divorced because I was too much of a dreamer. I wanted and attempted to start a recording studio. FAIL.

I went to counseling and found out I have a "Loser Complex." I never knew my dad, as he went to prison before I was born for murder, because he was lazy and a thief, and killed someone who caught him trying to break in TO A CHURCH TREASURY (I kid you not). I didn't want to be like him, but always had poor self esteem. I guess I turned out pretty lazy.

Anyway, I want to do better, but I have not been able to keep a job really. I got remarried in 2008, and started working in Collections at Wells Fargo. I was horrible at that, and so I lost my job there. I couldn't find another job ANYWHERE. I moved us in with my mom because we couldn't pay the rent, and now my mom moved into my grandfather's house because he died recently.

I did start working again, and have been doing recording engineering for this guy here in town who owns a music store. Probably been doing this 6 months. So, I can use that as a reference, but nothing else really. I really need to become a trucker, because this stuff isn't paying much, and I want to take care of my family. I think trucking would be good for me, but do I have ANY chance of getting a decent job with this in my past?

 

I do know what I want to do - I want to be a trucker. Maybe that wasn't clear enough in my post. I want to do better. I do want to work for it. I didn't before. I was lazy. I am ready to work now. I just want to know if, with my history, I can actually GET the job.

I have money and am ready to pay for schooling. I just don't want to pay for schooling if no one will hire me afterwards.

 

I am very serious. It's just that in my reading I see that some of these companies want a verifiable work history for like 5 or 10 years or whatever. If that is true, I would just get laughed at.

 

A couple reasons I guess... I like traveling, and would love to go further out west. Also, I could make a pretty good living at it, which would be good for my family. And also, I don't know that I have a whole lot of other options that would put me on the road to making money as soon as this would. The class is 8 weeks long, so after that I could potentially be making money.

Again, the 10 year work history thing will be a problem, unless I just make up a bunch of stuff... which I'm not willing to do. The 3 years may be a little easier, as they could verify the last 6 months by simply calling my boss, but other than that I guess I could explain the gap with just no luck finding work. But would that be a suitable explanation?