What kind of jobs you had before trucking?

Tried to get out of trucking and took a 2 year apprenticeship doing furniture refinishing and repair, made journeyman and worked it 3 more years before getting laid off.
Seems people don't buy real wood furniture anymore like our parents and grandparents did, the stuff that lasts generations.
They just go to Ikea or Target when it falls off the pickup when moving.
So...back to trucking I went.

 

I worked for Kmart painting stripes on tube socks.

 

Wow... I thought all truck drivers were former elite special force operators, like me.

 

Porn star, I was Mandingo's white stunt double

 

Managed Hotels for 15 years and got tired of the Corporate Politics! So I decided to come out in the road and start my own politics! Well what do you know...this industry is just as political but manageable at times!

 

Taught English as a second language. Adm. assistant in a GMO research facility for Ciba-Geyge. Adm.assistant in an export brokerage agency. All of it in Brazil.

 

Security guard, truck driver, security guard, truck driver, security guard, and now daycab truck driver for the past, six years. If anything, the daycab runs seem to be the one's I've stuck with the longest to this point. Pay more than anything I did involving a sleeper cab.

I intend to get out of this one day. Into what else, I do not know? I'm just spinning my wheels at the local college during off-times and seeing what might interest me.

 

Started hauling grain from field to bin or elevator at 13 and worked in family body shop until 21 almost 22 still also driving trucks. 22 to 50 City Police Officer owner opp on days off for last 16 years will be retiring in 16 months and drive full time. Mostly hauled or haul steel and grain.