Are truck stops / rest areas evenly spaced out?

Is the distance between truck stops random or are they evenly spaced out between one another? I ask since in case I ever need to stop to sleep / use the bathroom I can try to hold off until the next stop? When I am on the interstate I usually see a stop every 10 minutes, but I am not sure if this applies to every city and state other than my own. I basically want to know everything about trucking before I risk turning down a programming job that wants me. Trust me when I say that this great forum is not my only source of information. I have spent hours searching Google, watching truck videos, and driving to local truck stops learning more.

I have been turned down for programming jobs for the past six months so knowing my luck I will get hired now before I enroll in trucking classes lol. One is supposed to call me about five hours from now for an interview and I really cannot risk turning it down but I think I want to be a truck driver now. Perhaps I can just save up some money if I get the programming job and pay for my school and get reimbursed by Schneider.

 

Yeah until they decide to change the programming language for no reason and tell me to ditch the working language that I have memorized for the past 10 years and use some new technology that does the same exact thing.

It really makes you have an instant migraine when a new technology comes out and you have to immediately become an expert at it. There is so much new information to learn it is exactly like trying to learn how to speak a new language, which is why they call it a computer language. It is frustrating because I can create the exact same site using the language that I am an expert in.

Plus it sucks when they outline 50 features they want me to create and ask me how long it will take me to do it since that is how I get paid.... there is no way of knowing how long it will take. I have no idea what kind of problems to expect. That is like asking a trucker how long it will take to go across country and you are paid based on the number you give them and if you go over that quote you work for free. If you give them a value too high they will fire you. I wish they would just pay me by the hour until I finish it.

Some things that seem easy and only take two hours to fix wind up taking eight hours, while some jobs that seem like they would take three days to do only take four hours. They pay you based on what timeframe you give them so you can screw yourself over. You will always have to be on your toes and learn new complex coding everyday as it always changes. Unlike jobs like trucking or the medical field where the basics stay the same, programming is like having to stay in college forever. Plus the boss is always looking over your shoulder and asking questions. I really do not need that stress, I rather just drive and load/unload.

 

Thanks, and yes I understand I was only making a general statement. I just got woken up with a phone call from the job interviewer and he asked me extremely difficult questions regarding new technology on the spot from a conference call with four people on the phone line. I may not have much of a choice anymore as the money stopped and I still have a lot of bills. I have worked hard factory jobs where I was waist deep in some kind of melted metal debris and worked 12 hour shifts 6 AM - 6PM and then the next week it alternated to 6PM to 6AM while inhaling smoke from the huge oven they used to melt metals.

I know what hard work is and I need to survive and most jobs are about relationships and being fake and happy all day long and laughing at the boss' corny jokes and I cannot do it anymore. I am sure trucking has a lot of negatives but I may no longer have a choice. I come from a small military town and we just did the work. When I moved to a regular civilian town that is where workers had more say and complained. As long as I am alive I can keep going.

I remember people telling me how extremely hard programming is to learn and to make a career out of it and I managed to do pretty well the past ten years. Yes it is hard and sucks but I pulled through. Other than the police, it seems that truckers are the only ones I hear say that they cannot imagine doing anything else since they love their job so much.