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Forpetessake, I feel your pain also, My marriage of 21 yr's ended in June of this year. It was falling apart last year when I was in oilfield. I was on track to be a directional driller with a six figure income but the harsh realities of losing my family/home was a reality check, so I quit and moved to Socal where I have family. My faith really got me through the tough times! I have since gotten in a new relationship and after fruitlessly trying to get into my prior career, telecom, I enrolled in trucking school. ($4300). I have one week left and a couple of prehires.

Keep researching trucking here and think hard if it's the life for you. My 1.5 years in the oilfield with the long hr's/working outside/driving/sleeping in my truck has made the current trucker's life with HOS laws look easy.
If you hate four walls and a boss breathing down your back, trucking is for you. Sorry about your home scene, but what everyone else is saying is right on...
Goodluck!

 

Man, I would let that one go and chalk it up to experience.

I made a 6 figure income before and mine still ditched me for a 20k a year punk who offered her "moral" support hahahahahahaha. She said I spent too much time working and was never "there for her" but my bank account was sure there for her as well as her 40k cars, her gucci and prada bags, and so on. She cost me everything including my home.

Don't let yours do the same to you. If she is not willing to work with you, she's against you so it's time to move on. Driving a truck won't save anything, you will still get paid squat starting out and to top if off you won't even be there. It won't make life any easier at all.

 

I just want to point out that as a man who has TWO exwives certain facts. First putting lime on a body does not make it go away, it simply dries it out. Second planting a tree on top of a body does two things, it explains the digging you were doing in the middle of the night and the root system will just suck up anything and there will be nothing left at all. And finally, when an owl is out there on a branch late at night calling "WHO WHO", you can smile and say "It was me you #####"

 

HI, I have been looking for cheap options in my state. I found similar options in IL:

6 week community college course:
Olive-Harvey College
ccc DOT edu

another one:
Illinois Valley Community College
ivcc DOT edu

Call them for fees, looks like less than $100 per credit hour. Also qualifies for WIA and Pell grants so could be almost free! I tried to post links but can't yet. Hope you can find them.

Good luck and don't give up!

PS - ditch the witch, I did

 

I understand the position you are in. Trucking will solve one problem with your wife but indeed will create a new one. You will be on the road without your wife sending all your money home paying all the bills all the while you don't see any of it from the road. Then while your are getting lonely so is the wife. It just don't work out bro. It takes a well stable relationship for a trucker to keep his wife to begin with. An unstable one is doomed. I'm not trying to ruin your plans just want you to be informed about the facts. If you really would do anything to keep your family together then perhaps you should pray and ask God to take care of it for you.