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Pulled the trigger today

Discussion in 'The Welcome Wagon' started by DKimble, Apr 17, 2017.

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  1. Apr 17, 2017 #1
    DKimble

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    I've been hanging around for about a month now and have already posted to a couple other posts but today I pulled the trigger and signed up for CDL training at the local community college. I'll be doing 10 weeks of Saturday/Sunday classes starting May 20th.

    Not sure what I'm looking for in trucking yet, I just want out of the IT field - like many others I've seen on the boards. I like the idea of long-haul and being able to see parts of the country I've never seen before but as a divorced father of 6, being "home" a couple times a month might be nice also.

    Dan
     
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  3. Apr 17, 2017 #2
    Hick

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    The 1st thing you might wanna do is figure out what's causing that...
     
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  4. Apr 17, 2017 #3
    G13Tomcat

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    Welcome to TTR, Dan. Good luck at school; make sure you learn the pretrip to a "t" . . . it fails many people that aren't familiar with trucks yet.
     
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  5. Apr 17, 2017 #4
    mitrucker

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    Note he said divorced. He figured out the cause and corrected it:biggrin_255:
     
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  7. Apr 17, 2017 #5
    Cottonmouth85

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    Welcome to the jungle and good luck, Dan!
     
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  8. Apr 17, 2017 #6
    Cat sdp

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    IT probably pays better.....
     
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  9. Apr 17, 2017 #7
    G13Tomcat

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    It does. I did it myself, many years ago, in between trucking. THEN, I got RIF'd and here I am back in trucking. Once you get laid off, its hard to get back in to IT.
     
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  10. Apr 17, 2017 #8
    KillingTime

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    He 'pulled the trigger'.


    Good luck, Dan.
    (Fellow Maine denizen!)
     
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  11. Apr 17, 2017 #9
    Kitty power

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    Yeah got riffed 2014 at IT. On the road again yeah IT pays good but the hours really bite and on call sometimes too. YUCK kittypower
     
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  12. Apr 17, 2017 #10
    G13Tomcat

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    The "on-call" really sucked bigtime. I got RIF'd about 12 years ago. Miss the money, but not the hours~! On-call EVERY other weekend. Sucked.
     
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