Former Cubicle Dwellers: How does trucking compare?

Oh you aren't the only one lol by a long shot. And I had no tolerance for stupidity as a young man.....no that 50 is quickly approaching I find I have even less than no tolerance for it.

I was a senior manager for 20 years with some of the most useless people you could ever have the misfortune of knowing. I look back and don't know how I made it 20 days.

 

If you like working on your own without anyone looking over your shoulder or breathing down your neck, while at the same time sitting in a climate controlled truck and seeing something different every day of the week, then you'll like trucking.

 

I've worked in a call center for 6 years. I could not get promoted for ####! I got tired of the whole company operating like #### and doing not a #### thing about it, and since we were outsourced, the companies "client" would
come down to audit our phone calls and ask us "how come we aren't doing this or that" but yet when I put the question back into their faces they would either change the subject or put me out the meeting or try to write me up.

The only way to get promoted was if you got on your knees or bent over and let the train run through you! I decided enough is enough, I almost went postal! But instead, before I go off to my trucking career, I have a few things to
put on Youtube just to get it off my chest!

 

I worked outside in a career similar to construction. Then moved up to the office. I did that for about four years. Gained poundage from becoming sedentary...

Then that career, after 30 years, crashed with the housing market and I found trucking. Now I am in a moving cubicle! With my music, my radio, myself...

Mikeeee

 

Living my dream, you are.

 

I worked as a Laptop Repair Tech, then later as a Lenovo Engineer when living in Texas. It was a company called Wistron Infocomm in Gravevine. At the DFW trade center to be exact. Nonetheless, although the money was alright, management was out of control. As is the management with most companies nowadays. Lets put it this way. I wake up now, everyday, much happier than I was back then. I encourage people to try driving, quite often. Even if just for a local company. I do feel OTR is going to be a commitment, but as is, I pretty much only get 2 or 3 days off a month. and I try and pick up double shifts as often as possible. Being on the road, day and/or night just makes me happy.

 

Before the economy tanked in 2008, I was a transporter for an automotive dealership. I would drive a single automobile from point A to B and then be picked up by a passenger van. I loved it so much. But once people stopped buying cars I ended up working in a call center doing tech support (far worse than customer service) and then most recently was a cook making bar food. I am planning on accepting a driving job next week, I love the open road and so glad I got my CDL.