OTR and college is possible...I am doing it right now.

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I just don't see how there's any meaningful time left at the end of the day for this running 2500-3000 miles a week. Hats off on that feat alone.

I'm a college graduate. 2004 with a bachelors degree in Business. Would I go back and do it again if I woke up tomorrow 18 again? Knowing what I know now, probably not. Tough call. Academia wasn't really my thing so I kind of had to feign interest most of the time and force myself through it but I was just smart enough to do okay in everything and stick with it regardless of lack of interest. I just wanted to have a job I liked and to not have to come home and read and do homework for hours. I hated that. Then I realized that's how a lot of corporate life is watching people I knew get jobs at fortune 500 companies and have to sit at home working on PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets and I thought to myself this is too much of what I hated about college. Blue collar guy I guess.

 

Just to add a point, if you are considering a Master's degree in sciene (mine's in Agricultural Economic's, for example), many, if not most, programs will offer qualified applicants an asstantship. Basically, you get paid to work for a professor, do research, teach labs, that sort of thing. It's like a scholarship, and it usually comes with an out of state tuition waiver. Very, very few graduate science students pay full freight. Not something you can do while driving truck, of course, but it's another option.

As an employer, I would still look suspiciously at most for-profit colleges. I want to see a degree from a school that has a history and a reputation to uphold.

 

I've thought about taking courses online as I'd like to get my Blue Seal in business management. But then again I missed out on the college experience when I went the first time since I was 17 at the time. Might be fun to hit the college parties in your 20's lol.

Which college are you taking these courses through @ethos?

 

Fair enough.

 

I did it backwards. Went to college first, but make more money as a driver. Of course I work a lot more than 40 hours a week though. My plan is also to go into management. I won't need as much money once I pay my student loan off.

I did things the traditional way, but did take a couple courses that were hybrid and online only. I could easily see a driver doing college online, only problem would be finding a good school that offers full online degrees. Also, the online courses seem to be more expensive. This makes no sense since there is no classroom being used and the professor can teach from anywhere.

 

I wish I got my cdl before college, because I could have worked part time for wegmans in Rochester on the weekends, making $400 gross per wknd. I did drive a fuel tanker at Rochester airport for a corporate hangar though, that was fun, fueling planes and meeting CEO's etc.

OP you have a brilliant idea though, very wise to subsidize your college education working OTR and it makes a lot of sense. I just inquired to my college (RIT) and I couldn't believe how much tuition has risen. $49,000 a year! Just think, you could be on campus earning minimum wage like i did which barely paid the bills.