I'm a potential college dropout, should trucking be a plan 'B' for me?

Wow if you would have added the word “disgruntled” I would have felt ‘right at work’.
I’m now concerned if I get into the wonderful world of trucking will I be over-qualified.

 

I majored in criminal justice. I didn't graduate but I have credits. Right now I'm driving a truck and would not trade it for nothing. I'm convinced leaving college was the right thing to do for me. I think college is for those who can't make it in the real world and need a piece of paper to help them along

 

If you have common sense you will be for most companies..

 

Aaaaand.... as an older trucker told me way back when..... " Remember that We Are what the educated fancy people have always secretly wanted to be."

 

If you don't dream to drive a truck your whole life, you don't belong in a truck, I knew since I was 5 years old, that I was meant to drive trucks.

 

Wow...what an attack on an innocent kid

 

Innocent kid??? Where??? Who let a kid in here????


Innocent my left eyebrow... the little SOB swiped my gummybears. Call a cop!!!!

 

Now that is some dog gone good recall.I have actually attempted to force,purge,glean,and even ask what i was thinking about when i was a mere 5 years old,all to no avail.you should be doing something other than driving w/such a spectacular memory.

 

Many people may disagree with me but here goes. Why do people think trucking is so easy it is a plan b when someone fails elsewhere. If you don't have the focus to pass a class lasting a few months, you won't make it in trucking. OP finish what you started. Find a way. Then after you have the degree, if that career turns out wrong for you, look at something else. Giving up is a bad habit to start. I know many people who thought trucking would be easy and found out otherwise, and are now doing something else. If you come into trucking with the habit of giving up and dropping out, it will most likely be less than a year before you do it here too. And liking to take road trips in your car has nothing to do with trucking. Trucks are up to 80,000 lbs. or more (with permits), going places you may not want to go, in all types of traffic and weather. Add in the intense scrutiny of every LEO that sees your truck, and the potential for hefty fines at every weight station, trucking isn't a gravy job.

 

It'll probably be better to just get a degree or certificate in a field that hasn't been already saturated.
See if there's a particular company/outfit with openings for "floaters".

This way, you could just hop in your car or motorcycle and jam out to the next job assignment.
I talked with a few guys who were wind-generator techs and this was pretty much what they did.

Sadly, this is sort of what got me into this in the first place, only to find out about it later.
But, I never was able to come across a site like this in '04.