I was a _________ before trucking....

same here on the construction going on... it is dead back home the guys have been sitting since thanksgiving and my company has good rep.. its just dead... and on top of that this guy i have been running for he is selling all his equipment and retiring so i am off to find another job prob go O/O is march or april

 

That's what my now 30 YO son says....did for 3 years, made good $$$ (Austin, TX), took off when he wanted to, etc. Then he went to IT school and got a degree---hates it! Thinking about go back to lawn care..!!

 

I forgot to mention that I also worked for a farmer right before I did the sleep disorder tech thing in the hospital. Also, I grew up on one. We raised hogs, and bailed hay (for ourselves and others [aka custom bailing]) but when the market bottomed out in the late 80s, we sold everything. We were a small time open air farm. Not one of those enormous confinement hog factories.

Also, a few years after we sold the farm, my step dad started up a lawn care company as well as a custom harvesting business. We took care of all the lawn maintenance for our township, including all the cemeteries in the township. For the custom harvesting, he bought an old John Deere 6620 combine and we would harvest for any farmer that'd call for us to help them or do it for 'em.

 

Farmer and a Water Delivery Driver!

 

I've had quite a varied life. Gas station at 12. Grocery store at 14, and on and off, both part and full time for several years.
Parts delivery boy.
Cab driver.
Bus driver.
Ambulance driver and medic.
Utility construction. (I ran a Mexican Backhoe a lot.)
Emergency services dispatcher.
Firefighter and medic.
Law Enforcement, small town cop then deputy sheriff for over 20 years.
Truck driver.
Human Resources.
Lost and found clerk.
Truck driver OTR.
And now local P & D driver and dock worker.

Many times worked two or more jobs at once, or worked while in school.

 

I'm offended! NOT. Actually I thought that was a self portrait!

 

I am not a trucker yet, but start school in January.

Right now I am a staffing coordinator for an agency that hires nurses.

I have also been an office manager, have worked for CIGNA paying claims, done lots of telemarketing work when in college, assistant dental hygenist, and it all started out when I was 16 and worked at Burger King...I actually loved that job and worked with my best friend and had a fun time!

Right before my dh and I deciding to team drive together, I was going to school taking my pre-reqs to get into nursing. My mom is a nurse and I have always been drawn to the medical field. But my heart isn't really into that. It is more like something to do that pays very well. The company I work for now pays its RN nurses around $70,000 a year. But that would be after I go to school for another 2 years, not including the year I have left in pre-requisites. And hubby...who knows what he would do. So I have agreed to go trucking. I have never liked a normal 9-5 job and don't want to be away from dh, so trucking is the right answer for us. We already spend every moment together, and live in a bedroom at my in-laws, so living in a truck won't be too different and it will get us away from my in-laws!!!

 

first job was washing dishes/ slinging hash when the cooks went on break(semi-illegally) at a restaraunt where my grandmother waitressed.

worked there, clean up at a dirt race track, and had a paper route til i was 15, and could get a bona fide tax paying job.

been cooking most of my life, trained by and worked with 4 (2 french, heh. and 2 italian/sicilian background) excellent chefs in my career, just no desire to make the jump to running my own place, too much volatility.

come from a background that carries about 200 years of truck driving experience behind it. here i am.

 

hey lost boy, i am from the quad cities as well, lets go trucking ....lol