I want to drive truck!!!

I take it your wife is barefoot and in the kitchen?

or do you even have one. Wife, that is?

Amanda - don't let anybody with fossilized brains tell you what you should or should not do. None of us here knows your situation as well as you do.

If you can't get a grant, and Schneider is the only available CDL school, ask what they have open for utility/delivery.Example, there's an opening here in Denver - you fill in for other drivers who are out. Salaried, so it's an easy budget. Most of the routes are night shift, and are home in the morning.

See if something like that is available there. If not, yeah, you are likely to spend a lot of time away from the munchkin. At least for .. what.. 18 months? However long it takes to "pay off" the training.

As you (and, I'm sure, others) have noticed by now, I don't hold to well with this concept that "a child should be with his mother". I *do* think a child should be with at least one of his parents. I don't see why it can't be Dad. It's not like the little rat is still nursing, after all.

Now, if somebody comes up with a valid reason, or even a better job - fine. As for these reactionary old farts - they're apparently happy to lete emotions run their lives - and to let said emotions try to intrude into how you run YOUR life. Tell them to blow it out their left ear.

 

YOU GO GIRL! WHY DOES A KID NEED A MOTHER ANYWAY. AFTER ALL,HE IS NOT NURSING ANY MORE.

 

i'm now 29 yrs old and back in the 80's my mom decided to take a job sheller globe 3rd shift it was a factory but she was doing office work and she was making decent. My dad wasn't home that much b/c he worked full time in a factory and mowed yards made decent money aswell. Then they moved her to 2nd shift like a yr later or something like that and she began going to school full time and between work and school we would hardly see her it was my brother and my grandparents was raising me my brother 7 is yrs older then me and was like 16 or something. i was a daddy's boy and i really liked hanging out with my dad and going mowing on the weekends but my mom didn't like it when we would go mowing on saturday so my dad started mowing in the evenings and i was missing him so much but spend time with him on the weekends at the house it was like we didn't have the same time just bonding time. but we didnt have the samethings as other kids and we didn't have all the money in the world either. i know the times are different but money is all material. In 1990 my brother graduated from high school and went to the army and my parents got a divorce and ripped me apart. So when you are thinking about trucking don't forget about that precious cargo at home is wondering where mommy is when she is on the road. I know this isn't a trucking story but it still rips me all apart when i think about it. I'm a courier not making money but i don't have any kids and no wife to tie me down either but i'm all about family and i still love my mom and dad but i blamed myself for the divorce but it wasn't me

 

I'm sure everyone here is honored that you shared your rude attitude with a young woman who is actually trying to better herself in life. For a person to dip that low to try and attempt humor and rudeness to your personal content while trying to hurt others is not called for. You are a sorry person with no life or moral values. You say you have 14 years of trucking experience, but when I read your comments, you come off as a highschool student using this board as an after school activity. Also, from your stupid, pathetic ramblings of trying to put another person down which you don't know anything about, I might add, it seems that you very well might not have an education yourself. Why try and hurt someone who wants to better, not only herself but her family. I think if she wanted to run away from her problems, she would have not taken time to come here and write about them. Now if she is trying to fix problems, she has come here to find a way to secure a better financial life. You on the other hand, who is atleast in your 30's, have no sound judgement to pass to anyone. Go on with your boring, dull life of trying to hurt people on your behalf. BTW, I doubt you drive a truck WELL because you have a hard time driving your own mouth. Take your "I WANT TO BE MR.FUNNY" attitude to your local nursing home. I'm sure there will be an old man there that will let you use his defibulator after he kicks your A.$.$.... have a good one lowlife.

 

Amanda I am sure that you are wise enough to not judge the entire forum based on one guy like Handyman. You asked for answers and many folks gave you answers, maybe some you liked, maybe some that you didn't, but they all tried to offer their two cents in a helpful, intelligent manner. I hoped that you listened to all the pros and cons that the drivers gave you. Only you know if this lifestyle could be right for you and your family, and then chance and luck will take their shots at you as well. I think that it is great that you and your husband are both mature enough to do what is best for your family, and not be led by foolish stereotypes of what a husband and a wife need to do. If you guys do this right, and if luck is on your side, your children (and maybe future children) can be raised successfully by your husband while you provide the support. Will you miss certain things? Heck yes. Will your husband be there for things that most dads never get to take part in? Heck yes. Will your child feel special that his daddy gets to come on field trips with him and all the other kids just have their mommies? Heck yes. Dads are still pretty absent in kids' lives, and it isn't any easier on the dads than it is on the kids. Good luck to you, whatever you choose.

 

leanna

For the most part you are correct - but there have been a few that have been... well, let's just say "rude", when responding to Amanda. Her latest post was responding to one of those.

 

Yes, I saw those. But most just gave their reasons why or why she should not, without getting all judgemental about a mother leaving her child. I was actually surprised, I expected more rudeness. I just don't want her to look at all of us like she is looking at that one member.

 

I felt like that most adults don't take their kids opinions in account so i thought i could offer her that points of view b/c what happen to me in real life

 

You made a good post Cubbie. I am a teacher and I tend to agree with you. I see the kids whose parents didn't take their needs into account. It is pretty sad when, by 7th grade, some of these kids need fingers AND toes to count how many schools that they have been in, and not for a reason like the military.