I can't afford to work for $800 a week anymore!

I agree to some extent and do have some shouting matches at times with the staff. On a positive note though an HOA does keep some semblance of order and cleanliness in a community. My HOA fee is $195.00 monthly which contributes to a community swimming pool I will never use. Some HOA fees in Southern Las Vegas/Henderson are less than $100.00 per year and that's a good deal considering you won't see trash and cars up on blocks or cars parked in yards with weeds growing higher than the junk car.
HOA fees just have to work into the budget as a fixed cost .

 

I personally dont care what my neighbors yards look like. I also dont care if they dont like the weeds in my lawn (cut weekly with grass) old shed out back, rusty pickup in the driveway or confederate flag on my porch. HOAs dont want me and I dont want them.

 

The balance comes later. A couple years of sacrificing today can result in doubling of income for the rest of a man's career.

 

I will work twice as hard for the rest of my life, if it means my kids dont have to sacrafice now

 

Go get a used fleet truck that's less than 10 years old and finance it through the dealer for around $700 a month . And bring home $1600 a week being leased to somebody and Wright your expenses off on your taxes

 

How long havev u been driving? Look at fuel hauling in Vegas. If thats where u want to go.

 

Plenty of decent jobs in Las Vegas plus rent is resonable and much cheaper than $1400 a month.

Just a few are:
Old Dominion
Estes
Reddaway
Cardinal Logistics
A&R Logistics - this is one of those $60K - $72K jobs plus they have a loading facility at the rail yard in Las Vegas.

Zillow and propertyvegas.com are both good websites to search for a house/condo/apt. for rent.

 

This got derailed a little bit, the op said he wants to stay in wyoming.

 

TampaTony, working on a percentage of truck revenue isn't a bad gig IF the truck revenue is large. Sounds like the truck is earning in the neighborhood of $3500 per week AND you are working a lot of hours to accomplish that.

You are hauling freight with low line haul rates. Try getting on with a company that hauls higher revenue freight. Perhaps in your area that's impossible. Look into the general OKC area. Plenty of cheap real estate, low cost of living, and lots of trucking jobs.

I started flatbedding to the oil patch out of OKC last May (I know, bad timing). I'm paid 25% TTT and consider anything less than $5K TTT to be a very disappointing week. Good weeks are north of $8K. It's disappointing now, but by controlling my budget I'm still on track get my own truck. With my job I'm home at least a few nights a week, most runs are local.

Beyond the patch there's plenty of trucking jobs here.

"Sacrifice" is a relative term, isn't it? I grew up poor, but didn't know that until I went to college and mixed with students who came from wealth. I never felt I "sacrificed" anything during my youth. I had everything I needed. The spoiled kids in college didn't impress me as being happier. Quite the opposite.

In today's society, where advertising is considered free speech, we are drowning in ubiquitous clanging commercials, all promising "Happy Happy Joy Joy!" If we only eat McVomit burgers or wear Abercrombie and #### clothes.

This really hit home to me just how overpowering advertising is for today's youth, when my wife and I downsized from a suburban house to a small apartment after our kids grew up. Their closets were so STUFFED with brand name junk clothes they literally could not hang anything. Total crap quality and expensive rags. But they HAD to have them because they had BRAND NAMES on them to impress their "friends", brands with the advertising budgets larger than their cost of goods.

Now my kids are on the verge of becoming parents, and one of their biggest fears is THEIR kids will succumb to the IDIOCY of advertising. It was quite a conversation last Christmas.

Sacrifice? How about being more focused on happiness? It's surprising how much of a bargain happiness can be.

 

I understand that and can't blame him a bit for it. But, the job market there requires he sacrifice through high rent. That's personal choice. I threw the Las Vegas suggestion out there just for "food for thought." Just because it's a good fit for me and my family doesn't mean it's right for others.