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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sail, post: 140206, member: 2641&quot;]Well, I’m sure it won’t help you much if any, but here it is. I’m 53 y. o. engineer with MS degree that I got in 1976. I spent 30+ years in engineering, 13 overseas and 17+ here. I was always attracted to trucking OTR lifestyle. In early 80s I made my mind and got CDL overseas. But trucking job did not happened because of other life circumstances. In ’89 I got to this country. I have thought of trucking all these years, but did not do it because of various reasons, main ones were low pay &amp; I did not want to be away from home when kid was young. Now kid will graduate from university in a year or so (it’ll cut my expenses as well, as you may guess). In addition for the last 6.5 years job was too bad. Even it paid very well, I could hardly stand it, you know corporate america BS. Anyhow, I made my mind to hold this job one more year and quit engineering to go to trucking. On another side if it’d be some good place to work with normal people who have brain and can think and who are human I like engineering &amp; what I’m doing. I also thought of bunch or different ideas of some kind of business, but nothing came out of it. I did not even seriously tried to start any business, as I have not had any really good ideas. The outfit what I worked for was bought over second time in last two years (now it’s Thermo Fisher Scientific). After that it became just absolutely unbearable. So I decided to look for other engineering job, as I have to pay for university for another year. Guess what – in a month and a half (that is half of November + December where there are a lot of holidays) I got my first interview and a job offer right away. It does not pay as much as I was making before (20% less), but it’s average $$ for what I’m doing. It’s still probably about 2+ times more then first year in trucking. So I took this offer. Now at least I go to work with pleasure and at work I have to deal with normal people who can think, not only follow some stupid rules and orders. As about trucking I’ll still want to do it, but I like sailing and if you do OTR no way you can sail or have any time for your sailboat (sailing means a lot of work on you boat, unless one has unlimited $$ and can afford paid crew and so on). So I guess I’ll stick with this job I just got as well as with sailing for couple more years. As soon as I’ll quit sailing I’ll go to trucking if I’ll still be able to do it physically. By the way you mentioned Roehl has 7/7 program, I need to check on that. So far I knew only Schneider has 2 weeks on 1 week off program that I was thinking about. But in any case that won’t be much $$.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m sure I did not help you, just another story.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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