So this may be a random question but I have the option to do both and of course make good money in both as well. I’m 26 years old, healthy, good build, and was curious to those who have done both.. if you could choose would you go back to construction or would you stay in trucking?? I know construction can lead you to an advanced number of positions and always there like trucking but it’s SO hard on your body.. my Gramps mined all his life and he’s always in and out of the hospital. Construction is tough I know so I’m debating. What do you all think??
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Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by DevJohnson, Jun 27, 2018.
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If I had to do this all over again, return to my 18th birthday, I would have ignored my dad and did what he did - construction. I would have skipped university and all the other crap I did in life and just did what he did.
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I had a job one summer as a laborer on a house framing crew.
(I was 15 years old but looked 18, and my brother-in-law got me the job).
The job was interesting and paid well, and I was in great physical shape. But I noticed all the other guys in the crew, in their late 20s-early 30s, were popping aspirin like Tic-Tacs.
I didn't start popping aspirin like that until I had been a bus mechanic for a few years. Now I'm back in a truck, and use a "little" less aspirin.
Lotta layoffs in construction, seasonal and otherwise. They happen in trucking, too, but I've driven a tanker mostly and tanker work is pretty steady.
On the other hand, you're right, trucking will always be there. And your body will wear out regardless, so how do you want to use/abuse it?
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I've been fortunate enough to have been in both worlds, its really all in what you want to do. Skilled trades around here are hurting badly right now, been driving for about 12 years off and on, thinking about going back to the electrical field. There's pros and cons to both, just think of how you want to retire and what it'll take for you to get there.
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What type of "construction" ? Labor, grunt labor, supervisor, foreman, concrete, carpenter, steel ? Lots of construction is hit and miss, your job ends, you collect unemployment, you pound the pavement for your next job, sometimes traveling out of town for a job too. Winter months slow things down also.
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It’s a trucking forum. What do you think you’re gonna hear here?
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