Jumping from academic world to trucking industry? Can it be done?

Sadly, there's a lot of truth to what you say. On the other hand, I live in Washington DC and know plenty of lawyers who come from modest backgrounds. It's the LSAT that counts.

 

Not at all. But the admissions process does place great weight on the LSATs, perhaps too much.

 

I have friends graduating from law school at Pepperdine who are not using the fancy law degree but instead working slightly above minimum wage jobs. I scored very well o the LSAT but when I went to look at the job market, I picked a MBA instead. Either way more school was a bad choice. A CDL is a skill and education not just education.

 

I have lawyer friends who wait tables, drive taxis, you name it. And sometimes not by circumstance but by choice. Many have told me that holding a steering wheel and watching the country roll by would be much more interesting than how they spend their day. Having worked in an office (not as a lawyer), I would agree.

 

If a cdl is a skill & education ? why is the trucking industry as a whole listed as " unskilled labor " by the dept of labor... look it up

 

It is because they are not intelligent enough to make their own positions as unskilled labor. They have to make someone lower than their position. By the way the Department of Education approves CDL schools so it must be a skill and/or education.