Do you have an exit plan?

buy this for 2.1 million.
Rent it and your services.(driver) cause 2.1 mill for that, then someone comes in with bumper tore off, could ensure a fight.

 

If current trends continue, and there's every indication they will, in 5 years, I believe the world may be a very different place, a place I'm not sure I want to be a part of. MY exit plan, is to get away from Colorado, to an undisclosed location I already have, where nobody will find me, and go totally off the grid. Not to be the guy holding the "End is near" sign, but this society is 1/8 turn before snapping, seems everyone I talk to agrees, and selfish as it may be, that's my solution.

 

If I could return time, I would be a “Teamsters”. Where I see myself in 5, probably in my paid off retirement community in the Natural Hot Spring Water pools living off my paid off home renting it out and receiving my SS along with the other half’s pension.

 

My exit strategy is to go off the deep end. After a few drinks at the airport lounge, I’ll randomly end up in Ukraine. President Zelensky will be instructing me to shoot at the tanks and I will be screaming at them in fluent Russian, to surrender or to face the bullet. After the doctors psychiatrically intervene, the mental institution which houses me will provide a warm place to live and meals for life. That’s me. That’s my retirement plan.

 

It’s also a Union gig.

 

Would I have done trucking over ? Trucking saved my life. It took me from panhandling in the streets, to giving $50 to homeless randomly and having a career. My schooling is worthless as a piece of paper. My job experience got me a 10-15 percent raise each year , basically. In trucking, you see absurd salary increases if you make it to 2 years. That short goal kept me going. With an associates degree, I’d be begging to work in the dispatch office for 10 an hour less.

A clean commercial license with experience, pays much better than most college degrees in my opinion. Unless you’re a doctor or a lawyer, an experienced driver makes a middle class if not upper middle class salary in lots of places.

Salary tops out and company politics become poisonous. The industry has a high turnover rate. The way around it is to become an owner operator. While you’re holding the wheel and listening to the radio, you could be mentally lining up numbers to run your own business.

 

Fake my own disappearance. Move to another town (would only have to be maybe 10 miles away), get a toupee, an ear piercing, a tattoo and a Subaru with a “Bernie Sanders” bumper sticker on one side and a “COEXIST” sticker on the other………….they’ll never find me!

 

The previous week it became 20 years since I was at it. They say that on average truck drivers don't get to live more than 59. Not even the right age to retire. Retire before that then...I don't want to push it hard.
1. Eat healthy food and regain body strength.
A handful of fresh fava beans is not too much to ask. You can cook'em but I always liked them raw better. Hunt and eat what you hunt.
2. Restructure the mind by finding more seclusion from this urban mire. Detox your psyche by living for some time in a little trailer house somewhere in Elko, NV. Admire nothingness and hear no noise. No internet, no phones, write letters to the beloved wife and read only Elko Tribune, if there is any. Hear no people just rattlesnakes rattle. Learn to hunt them and eat them too.
With the renewed mind, it ought to be obvious what to do next for the better life.

 

This is actually pretty close to my plan lol

 

I just retired in November. Gave 30 days notice on my 59th birthday in October. I was planning to retire on my 60th, but in April I had a sister drop dead at work on a Monday morning. Got me thinking that I should quit before it was too late.
Been almost four months so far and haven’t missed trucking one bit. I have lots of hobbies and there’s always stuff to fix around the house. Don’t know how I ever had time for work before.