Hahaha about that age I told my father I needed to leave the farm and get a summer job in my field......welding. So I reported for work at a local welding shop where they told me my job was picking up willow tree branches off the lawn. I made it to lunch
What kind of jobs you had before trucking?
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Farmers son
Welder
Fitter
Welding Lead Hand
Process Engineer
Robot Programmer
Design Engineer
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Been a driver all of my life. Decent mechanic but not a professional tech.
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Food Service
Retail Sales
Retail Distribution
unemployment
Then back to retail Distribution
Then trucking
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Underground construction 5.5 years
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Game operator at a theme park (they are rigged)
burger flipper
car lot gopher
film processing tech (you people are sick, sick, sick)
computer programmer
airport line service / airline re-fueler
pizza delivery
Operations Intern flight school
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When I was a kid/young teen I helped my dad on weekends and breaks laying floors
Quit school went to work for remodeling construction company
Joined the guard as a diesel tech for 6 years.
Went to truck driving school, got my CDL, went back to work with my dad hauling a reefer for a little over a year. Quit for the oilfield.
2 days before physical etc at oil company oil bottomed out and they canceled.
Worked at a shop as a tech.
Back to driving only flatbed this time
Back to reefer.
Quit AGAIN for the oilfield, company went under; couldn’t pay folks.
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