New truck driver hoping I didnt make a mistake changing careers!!

Nice catch. I did the resurrected post date check before I replied, but didn't note the last year dates within the story LOL. Maybe she went back to nursing and had delayed regrets?

I think I going to need some popcorn for this thread now

The person who would do that is someone that is unhappy being an RN. Simple as that. Doesn't matter how much demand or pay is involved. Life's too short to do something you're not happy with. If the story is legit, kudos to her for having the guts to leave a sure thing to start over and learn and do something different. If not, I just got in early for another epic thread LOL

I don't think that RN credential expires, so I suppose she's always got (or may have already exercised) a fall-back position.

 

I am thinking that the OP simply got the year wrong on the original post, and he/she really meant 2011

My wife is an RN, and here in Utah she needs to renew her license every two years. The requirements are 1) work a minimum number of hours as an RN, 2) take a minimum number of hours of classes, or 3) a combination of 1 & 2.

I'm not sure of the actual number of hours needed.

I can also understand the OP's desire to quit nursing. My wife has about as many years experience as the OP, and she is so fed up with the stress, politics, and regulations (something you drivers I'm sure are very familiar with) that she has cut her hours back to the minimum required to keep her license.

 

The post is 3 days old, so the 2010 is obviously a typo.

I would wonder about leaving nursing in this economy, but if you want to drive, hang in there. Unfortunately, you picked the biggest ####bag company to start off. Trucking is like any other career, there are good companies and bad. Look for medium to small companies. Don't go over to Werner, CR England, Covenant, JB Hunt, Heartland, US Express or Prime. It will be the same crap in a different colored truck.

 

I don't understand why these people continue to drive for these horrible companies. If they are so bad, stop driving for these companies and they won't be around.

 

You gave up being a RN, let me get this straight.. a registered nurse....let me repeat this one more time....a registered nurse to be a ummm a truck driver??

Seriously?

This can't be real....really?

 

Oh MAN !! If I thought I could be a nurse and make that kind of money, I would be in school next week. But, I don't look good in a skirt.

chedid122, don't give up. Even if you DID make a mistake, you're almost done with training. Stick it out- make it work. In the end, you can have a driving job with a nursing background as a backup.

That's awesome, the rest of us just have trucking and more trucking to fall back on.

 

People change careers all the time. Maybe it was burnout, maybe personal reasons, maybe just time for a change.

Either way, you had a HORRIBLE experience with Swift. Don't let that stop you from trying to find a decent place to train with. Do a search around here, you'll learn quickly which companies are tolerable, and which companies to avoid completely.

BTW, if this is you're "first " try at trucking, what happened in the other thread with SRT?

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...-refrigerated-transport-inc-texarkana-ar.html

 

No offense but this story, if it's true, sounds like you had either the worst luck in the world OR it's exaggerated and all that was said is actually not all true but your just angry at the situation. I have friends and have spoken to people that have gone through the swift mentor program and have NEVER heard these problems! I'll say that you had bad luck over you just over exaggerating simply because that would be a judgement I can't prove however my mother in law will turn a little problem, add some lies and BOOM you have a huge problem that never really happened just because she gets upset and over emotional. To be honest, truck driving and truck drivers ARE NOT like the medical profession and if you were expecting things to be that way or people to be on time (ON TIME, WHATS THAT?) this isn't the profession for you! The thing about the trucking profession and it's industry is you can TRY to be somewhere at an exact time however EVERYTHING is truly just an estimate.

 

I'm going to point out that one your talking 2nd hand info. There are truckloads so to speak of trainers that have no business training period. These training wheel co's could care less if the person gets trained properly. They only see $$$ for the job placement training and thats it.

There's also quite a few trainees that have no business driving trucks as well. This industry is putting $$$ ahead of safety!
If these co's would properly train these drivers than they would be productive drivers and wouldn't leave or wreck equipment all the time, but they don't give a care about it. Talk is cheap, actions speak louder than words.

 

Man that is how my ex-girlfriend was like. She got into fights with all of her co-workers at more than one job, all of her old friends, all of her family members, all of her college classmates, it seemed to her that every single person was the problem and she didn't realize that she was the problem. She would start some #### with me, then realize she was wrong, then later complain that I shouldn't have called out her mistake. A lot of women seem to have this problem when they disrespect someone or have a "I am too good for this" attitude, and when people react to their uppity attitude they say that person is being mean. It was funny when my ex explained what happened to someone else and left out all of the bad things she did to cause the argument, only mentioning what the other person said to get people on her side.

You say that you are an RN so maybe you feel that you are better than uneducated trainers so your body language gives off the impression that you are better than them. Oh and regarding the posts from people wondering why an RN would leave her job to drive, I heard that being an RN is very hard work. I am a programmer now for the past 11 years making $40,000 per year (in this city that is a lot since everything is dirt cheap) but when my business has slow weeks I get very stressed out thinking that "this is the end". If my business doesn't do well I cannot get a regular job to afford my bills. I would like to have a job where I know if I do the work I will have some money coming in. My business is mostly automated now so I hope it will continue to bring in a lot of money while I drive and then I can pay off my house within three years and put the rest in savings.