What's job security if you hate your job and it makes you miserable? Find something you like doing, something you look forward to doing again after a week off, makes life easier. Money isn't everything and can you really depend on a state pension fund being around in 30 years? They're not getting self driving trucks off the ground, the first time one falls down the mountain into Denver and kills a few people and the lawyers start chasing everybody down to the individual programmers that'll be the end of them.
Have You Ever Left and Came Back?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by SmoothBore, Jun 15, 2019.
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Most people don’t like their jobs. They call it “work” for a reason. Part of life unless you’re wealthy...
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A man is going to do, what a man is going to do, but I'd be asking myself serious questions before doing such a thing. It's not like we're talking about quitting a cashier job at Costco, or lumping boxes for 10 bucks an hour at the local warehouse. We're talking about walking away from what seems to be a solid career choice, that he consciously made the decision to pursue and climb the tiers of, AFTER running OTR for 3 years, and owing his own rig.
Is his current career that bad? Is it just boredom? Perhaps finding more exciting things to do outside of work? Has he felt like this for YEARS? Is this a sudden itch? If this is a reoccurring itch, why now, after working yourself into what seems to be a cushy position? I don't know to be honest, and I'm not really interested in arguing about another man's decisions, but if trucking really is in his blood, and he's got this serious itch to get back, why ever leave in the first place? He was in long enough to know if this was "for him" or not I'd say, and he ultimately gave it up to pursue something else. But it seems he really has no obligations at home and is debt free, and isn't wanting to make the switch for money, and isn't concerned with a potential pay cut, so in that case, it seems the answer is clear. If you want to hop back in a truck, more power to ya OP, and I wish you the best in whatever you decide to do.
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Everybody is different, but in my way of thinking I can do exiting things besides work at whatever I do for work, why be miserable at work.
By your way of thinking, why is he wanting to return to the road, he tried something else, was also successful, but decided he isn't happy.jbird05031126 and Dan.S Thank this. -
Many drivers don't get the itch for running the roads as a trucker, until they don't have that career anymore.
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Use some of that money to buy a modest camper and spend 3 nights a week in a sleeper.
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If you love you're job, you'll never work a day in you're life.
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