Trucker with degree ? Anyone

I was working towards my CPA until I decided to do this. Debiting and Crediting a sales journal is really, really exciting stuff though. I mean... it doesn't get much more exciting than remembering your debits on the left, and credits on the right. And THEN your asset accounts...get this...also have a CONTRA-ASSET account!!! OH god. are you creaming your pants yet?? Well are you????

then i decided that I hated office politics, and if I was going to be sitting for 12 hours a day, the scenery might as well change and I might as well not be bothered by irritating gossiping coworkers

 

Took 5 semesters of accounting......GOD I am SO EXCITED.....


I actually spent 4 hours this morning in Quicken, re-categorizing things. Imagine doing THAT by hand.

 

I retired from a Human Resources management job in a hospital after 31 years. I have a Masters Degree in Industrial Relations and a B.S. in Public Service Admin in Agriculture. I had enjoyed the job for the first 25 years, but in the last 5 it got to be a pain in butt, so I was glad to get out. I am enjoying life now, and do the things I like to do.

I had always thought about driving a semi, and had the opportunity to go to a Community College Driving School after I retired. I really liked their program and have enjoyed doing part-time relief driver work. I started out as a Tanker Yanker hauling milk interstate, driving Peterbilts across IA, MN, SD, IL, IN, and MO. Drove about 4 different Peterbilts, all 18 spds. I started to float the gears with Peterbilts, but with interstate driving, you really don't shift much.

Then I worked seasonal full time and part time for a local Co-op hauling grain and fertilizer in hopper bottoms, and liquid fertilizer and some HazMat in tanks on a flatbed. Hauling grain from farmers to the Co-op was fun, because I had some town driving, and some country driving on paved and gravel roads. This was driving a 10 spd with a little Cat C-13 engine, so when loaded at 80,000 lbs. you could take a mile or more to get up to speed, depending on the hills. But this was where I really learned to shift smooth and float the gears. You would go a mile, slow down and turn, go another mile or two, and slow down and turn, and so on until you got to the Co-op to unload. Really good experience to learn how to shift a good old 10 speed.

I had some right shoulder problems, so now can only drive an automatic, so I am driving as a substitute school bus driver. I have all the endorsements you can have for a CDL. The only one I have not used is the double trailer......maybe someday....There is a small FedEx terminal not far from my house!!!

I also started a small bicycle repair shop that I run out of my garage, as I have always been a bike nut....so I am a bicycle mechanic now too!!

I became a grampa a year ago, so that keeps me busy too.

 

I have a ba in architecture and associate in 3d design.can't find a job in my field so right now im in a trucking school and planning on driving for few years and see if the economy gets better.i really enjoy traveling and dont have kids or wife to hold me down.

 

mystikal
our career paths seem to parallel one another. I started out in the military then dropped out of college, went truck driving, went back to school got BS in accounting, went to work for the government, did 4 yrs LE, now I'm back working for the government, and almost done with MS accounting. Might get back behind the wheel. Right now the plan is to return back to LE, but haven't made up my mind.

 

This was a question I was about to post, but I never got around to do it. Anyway, I have a Bachelors in Supply Chain Management from 2010. I worked in a Tier 1 automotive supplier for a little over 3 years and realized I want to try something different. So, here I am today on my 2nd day of trucking school. I figured driving was my biggest expense and I like to drive A LOT, so why not get paid for it.

 

They are looking for highly skilled special agents at GBI here in GA. Must have a bachelors degree of a name brand school though. http://gbi.georgia.gov/gbi-special-agent

 

Wow.....

And all that for $35k a year.

 

Who done tole you that crap about grammer ? It ain't so. They's drivers , not writers .