Cant do it anymore

Some people do want to get out this line of work, but are unfortunately unable to afford to do so. Save that money, pay off those bills, and once you're able to live on some part-time McJob, stick a fork in this career line and then call it quits if it's that bad.

 

I called it quits despite having money problems. Got a job making $10 an hour but I am home each night and have weekends off and very content despite being poor. I am keeping my eyes open for a local trucking job but so far nothing comes close to my pay expectation of at least $18 an hour. I would not trade my current gig for the local jobs advertised at $14 an hour.

 

Frito's in chili is just wrong on so many levels.

 

Too hot for chili

 

Corn or eggs in chili is tasty.

 

What big city are you close to?

 

This kinda too boring to read the whole thing.
I hate local driving. It's boring. Your forever surrounded by maniacs.
I love OTR ( I'M SOORY ). I love pinballing all over, the longer the run the better. IT"S NOT MY FAULT.
It is, what it is, however.

 

Basically after 2 years the op is leaving OTR for a waste management driving job.

 

And even if that were humanly possible, there still exists the notion that the average... millennial (and I'm that generation, so only a little disparagement from me)... will explore 6, 7, 8 career paths before s/he is 40... I mean hell, I've dairy farmed, busted ### in a slate quarry, worked a kitchen for almost 6 years, warehouse work for 2, did social service work for 9 and now drive a semi. That's 6, and I'm a mere 32. A 'lifer' is seldom met these days.

Truth. Cold hard truth.

And this is AFTER acquiring a 4 years degree, sometimes in something impractical, but just as often in something useful. However job availability, and the starting pay of the available jobs is in the toilet.

You either grow out of it or you don't, I guess. I was a mega-stoner for a while... Chest length dreadlocks, a lack of any real ambition, floating... just existing to smoke the next fattie. Aspects of it were fun. I wouldn't change it, but I wouldn't do it again either.

There was a period of 2 years where I had two full time jobs, a part time job and part time school. That was about 125 of my weeks allotment of 169 hours taken up. It might appear as if I were over-employed, but man, I basically killed myself to live. It was pretty rough.

Another cold hard truth.
A bump to 'balance' the cost of living is immediately met with a bump to the price of everything.
The housing market in certain areas is undergoing this wave of gentrification... Make the prices so steep that only the lower-upper class and above can afford to live there. I see this going on in Portland (ME) right now. With something like a 2% vacancy rate in the city, landlords are asking ridiculous rates for what is basically a hole in the wall. You eat, sleep and #### - all in the same room.

 

Yes and no. There was no work where I'm from (unless you wanna work in the mill for $14-16/hr CDN). I ended up having to move over 750 miles away literally the day after graduation to find good paying work. Like you said, there aren't many high paying jobs out there, so you need to step up and show companies that you are the person they want working for them.