I'd like to ask some of the Truckers and wanna bes with these strong opinions if this would go the same way if their wives or GF's came home all excited to go off to be a traveling table dance girl / stripper..
So my husband wants to become a trucker
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by greencherry, Aug 18, 2007.
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I am too. One pays taxes, the other doesn't.
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Someone that truly believes that it is his/her right to have things their way only is kidding themselves and is probably going to end up alone sooner than later. (maybe over and over)
It is a privledge that comes with a price!
This thread should have been called "So I want to divorce my husband" then we'd know how to respond in the first place.
My spouse and I have been through a lot. When he quit his job and decided to be a driver, it was his decision to make and I am proud of him for whatever he does that helps take care of business. I also work. If I made a decision to sell our home and move to Las Vegas, Florida, or Alaska to work he would be supportive. I was even considering teaching ESL in Korea recently. IT WORKS both ways! -
And saying that all strippers don't pay taxes is like saying that all truckers are cranked out speed freaks. Yes, they exist, but not all. Stripping is a valid, legal profession. Beats the heck out of our welfare dollars supporting them. -
OK, I wonder how many men here would not be alarmed if their wives / GF wanted to go on the road as truckers and leave them to deal with everything,,,
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My wife and I have been together for 15 years. I am "college educated," she is not. We are both from the Chattanooga area originally, but moved to Atlanta because I got a great job offer. You see, once upon a time, I was a network administrator. I worked at an engineering firm in Atlanta. During this time, my wife worked at a small trucking and freight brokerage company in the Atlanta area. When my job got downsized, I spent a year doing short-term contract work, mostly rollouts of new workstations at various businesses in Georgia and Tennessee. I also spent a few months doing work on a contract for the TSA, setting up/maintaining/tearing down networks at temporary locations for testing large numbers of baggage screeners. That work dried up, we moved back to the Chattanooga area because it was much cheaper to live in that area, and I ended up working through a temp agency, operating a paperboard cutter on 3rd shift for a company that makes cereal boxes and the like. My wife got a job as a security guard at a private boarding school.
My wife and I got fed up with the instability of my work, and after lengthy discussions I responded out one of those ads I'd been seeing in the newspaper every week for OTR drivers - "No Experience Required! Paid Training!"
Yeah, I've been used - a new driver is a cheap driver. But truth be told, I love this job more than any I've ever had. I'm making pretty decent money, though it does vary a bit from week to week. I have an office with a window. The scenery changes. The benefits are decent. We're both fine with me being on the road for 4 weeks at a time, and fine with me being home for 4 days at the end of it. Of course, at the end of my 4 weeks on the road, we're both ready for me to be back at home - but at the end of my 4 days at home, we're both ready for me to hit the road again, too!
We talk almost constantly via cell phone (yes, I use a headset!) and probably have more meaningful communication than we ever had when we were in the same room for several hours a day. We're both fairly "independent" people, but I'll tell ya something - I love my wife more than life itself, and couldn't imagine living without her love. And I think (and hope!) that she feels the same about me.
I am out here on the road, doing a job that's both hard because of the effort and hours involved, and easy because it's something I've found that I love to do, mainly so I can provide for my wife. My goal is to make enough money to get completely out of debt in the next 2 years, so we can afford for her to stop working and ride along with me when I'm on the road.
I hope that provides a little bit of insight for greencherry...
BTW, if the tables were turned, and my wife wanted me to stay at home while she drove a truck, well...I'd probably freak out. There's no way I can take care of the house alone! My wife hasn't even let me touch the laundry in 10 years! She insists that socks and blue jeans aren't supposed to be washed together. She uses something called Bleach, which I tried to use once, but ended up with white spots on a dark blue shirt. And that's just the start. But then again, there's no way she could drive a truck, even if she could pass a DOT physical (heart problems). She has said repeatedly that she'd end up killing some dumb 4-wheeler and going to prison. But hey, that's why I drive the truck and she takes care of the house - our marriage is, among other things, a partnership, with division of labor. -
Wow, great post man! I am going to be starting in a month and that seems like something I could be writing a year from now almost word for word.
With so much negative out there its nice to read stuff like this. Keeps me excited and feeling I am making the right choice for me. -
I'm also considering a career in trucking and it's great to hear your optimism.
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