Degree to go alongside Trucking?

Management was exciting when I got into it. As I rose through positions, making it to Senior Vice President, things changed. It became more about cutting expenses, and growing revenue, than planning and executing.

At times, it felt like being promoted to Executive Officer of the RMS Titanic, after the little scratch.

 

If you stay for a few years you probably wont want to leave. By the time employers got around to calling me back I was telling them to f off.

 

I am looking forward to not having direct reports and subordinates.

 

I think trucking is just an easy job compared to many other jobs. At least to me it's easy. I have a saying " I really love driving a truck , I would hate to have to go back to work again ". LOL

Freedom is a big part of it. I think money is NOT a big part of it. No matter how much or how little $$$ you make someone will think it's to little / to much etc etc ... the money is good if YOU think the money is good. The money is bad if YOU think the money is bad. It's a YOU think not an industry thing.

 

Gender Studies.

 

The money deal is while you are working, you are making pretty fair money on most trucking jobs, while you are not driving, nothing or very little. Some guys have come into the industry thinking that long as they are not at home in bed, they should be getting paid. When you have that line and divide your weekly paycheck by 168 hours, then the pay sounds bad. lol

 

Trucking is a heck of alot more interesting than running Gel Phoresis all day. Pays better too. Physical anthropology fyi. Lure you in with unraveling mystery, reality your gonna be a henchmen in a lab with anything less than a PhD and even then (its more answering stupid questions than solving the mystery yourself). Still find it fascinating, but im not going back too a lab. Trucking is much more satisfying.(i know how that might be hard to imagine)

But yeah, logistics is a good field of study unto itself, and with actual time experiencing the supply chain first hand you will have a unique perspective that might give you a better picture of the chain.

Most of our fleet managers are old drivers, some with more or less experiance. Mostly flatbedders that got too beat up to flatbed or one that accidented himself off the road. One had 6months on the road, one had 2years one had 10. The degree will probably help you go higher up the food chain.

 

What did that job consist of?