I was a _________ before trucking....

just a printer? did you ever aspire to be more? like a fax machine and copier too??

 

Photographer... from speciallized medical photography in a eye clinic, to glamour photography with some
well known models, an example of which is my avatar...

 

For me I started pushing a lawn mower after school and during the summers for cash.
Was a dish washer at an upscale restaraunt for a while. I left that after a few months and joined with a company called Braidco where I made rope at a rope factory (a real sweat shop, 100 plus temps in an old warehouse with no a/c and only huge fans to circulate the air. This job only lasted 1 summer and I had enough!
Upgraded to flipping burgers at McDonalds where I also had to help unload the supply trucks (my first contact with trucking and I picked the drivers brain every chance I got as far as pay and benefits). Spent 4 years at McDonalds and left a year after being promoted to Swing Manager (made a whopping $6.35 per hour when I left).
Thanks to the converstaions with the Martin Brower delivery driver I decided to go to truck driving school in November 1991. I spent 7800.00 for tuition through a school called North East Career Schools based out of Manchester NH. It was an 8 week course but it was worth it! 16 years of driving and averaging around 70 grand a year now a days with great benefits!

 

paper boy-grade school
golf caddy-grade school, high school
bakery oven scraper-college summers
house painter-college summers
U.S. Navy-post college
commodity floor broker- post USN
commodity trading desk manager
golf caddy-Kohler, WI, Augusta, GA, Pebble Beach, CA
Private investor-now

 

Mike was a kitchen helper then worked in a kitchen in an old folk's home then worked in the kitchen at a hospital then went back to school then got a job driving for Canadian Linen. Went back to school again and now is driving truck for Armour.

 

U.S. Marine for ten plus years and then worked for Coca-Cola as a merchandiser. I always idiolized my older brother who has been an O/O for the past twenty years. He thinks I am nuts but I start Truck driving school next monday. I think its in my blood. beside my brother my father and uncle were drivers. I got to give it a shot...

 

I was a Paramedic for over 15 years and I thank my brothers for rubbing the trucking business in my face.....and I love them everyday for that.....they told me so much and they were good truckers while I was working as a Paramedic......they are gone now but a part of them will live in me as I continue my life as a truck driver.....take care all and be safe!

I SURE HOPE THIS PIC DOES NOT OFFEND ANYONE.....MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL..........

 

While I can't speak for the entire forum, I'm surely not at all offended.

And may I say, she looks nice, but I'd love for her to be naughty.

 

Right before i got into driving, i was going to college for elementary education. I started driving for my father as a summer job after my freshman year at ysu, and haven't quit since!

 

No offence taken. I, like the scarecrow prefer naughty.

I became a Paramedic right out of high school for 6 years. Got really smart and became a Police Officer for 17 years. Got run over by a car. Took a partial medical retirement. Played Music professionally and semi-pro off and on during my life. Also do a part-time gunsmithing job. Hoping to start my Driving school by May of 08.