help....thinkin of hanging up my saddle!

There's a big demand for nurses and anything else in medical field. A friend of mine daughter is a RN making $40 an hr works 3 days a week 12 hr days

 

If you have a way to make good money and be at home with your kids than DO IT! No kidding. You will miss out on their entire childhood and next thing you know you will be trying to make it home for their graduation. You know. If I had another chance I would make my family live on whatever I could make at home. I would get "into" their lives. What I mean is thier life would be my life. I was too young and dum when my kids were born to care much about the details going on in their life.

Now. If you cant then get with some good benifits and miles and stick with it. No company out their will not piss you off from time to time. You have to get though those moments. It passes.. Times are gonna get tuffer and your gonna wish you had a good payin job with bennies.

 

I totally agree with Countrycruiser. If your not happy than you better get out now while you don't have that "road blood" in you! You stay in it long enough, you'll actually miss it when you leave. I'm currently a dispatcher and make 50K salary. And I hate it. I'm also dicvorced. But if I was able to see my kids everyday, I would learn to like anything that pays all the bills!

 

Hey Coolbreeze, why do you hate dispatching? Can you describe exactly what you do (and all the headaches) of the job that makes you hate it so? Is there ANYthing good about the work you do?

 

Redcoat, I hate to get off the subject of this thread. But what I like most about my dispatching job, is my steady income and the fact that I'm home every night. I work 0830 to 1700 M-F, most weeks. Especially now that its slow. But a few things I don't like are, meetings, conference calls, meeting numbers, and having a boss that keeps a watchful eye on everything you do. I do have other reasons why I miss being on the road, but I don't wanna get too far off the subject at hand. I started driving a truck when I turned 21. I've never had an office job, till now. Being in the office is very stressful, compared to being on the road. I was an on-site account manager for a large retail supplier, for a year. I am currently a dispatch manager for an overseas container company. Any other questions, I'll be glad to answer in another thread.

 

My bet is you would get more satisfaction out of nursing than what you got out of truck driving. If you put half as much effort into nursing as you did into trucking you would be doing alot of good for alot of people. The nursing sector needs hard workers like yourself willing to go that extra mile!

 

I wanted to do trucking back when I was single, then I fell into telecom making a decent pay, got married, had 3 kids and eventually ended back in a traveling telecom job. I then got a boring 7-4 office job and hated it! After that I got in the oilfield, the marriage ended and I got out due to the isolation, tough conditions and hours. I moved to SoCal, haven't found a decent job all year, when I decided to get into trucking. My kids are almost all grown, so trucking is a good thing for me at this time. I'm not cutout for an office/factory/warehouse job, never have been. Anyway you can get a local job?

 

I know how you feel,im also about to lose my home too.I been off the road for about 3 months and cant find any work.Im in the same boat with you,im thinking about leaving trucking for a while and go back to the emergency medical serivce field.What ever you do I wish you luck.Keep your head up,things get better in time.

 

Problem with nursing is not just the extra schooling
it's that there is a shortage of teachers
(nursing pays much more than TEACHING nursing and you need same qualifications)
so there is usually a waiting list 6 mo's + long