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I totally know what you mean when you say tech supports jobs leads to depression issues for you. I've also worked in technical support and customer service and will never do it again. Dealing with the technical issues was ok but the customer stuff was for the birds. I was fired 2 times from the same company for not properly handling irate customers over the phone. I especially wouldn't do it for $10-$13 per hour. That doesn't seem like very much money at all. If I remember correctly I made fortyish per year and that was around 1996. But anyway, I started in trucking on a company sponsored CDL training program and Im still with the same company 6 years later. You can make pretty good money in trucking after the first couple of years but I wouldn't have too high of expectations for the 1st year.

 

Millis does not have a tanker division that I know of dry van only, They will float the note on schooling, but you'll have to work for them for a year (I think) but it is a top shelf school, with top shelf equipment to work with when you get done.

 

Step son did tech support for Best Buy here in SW MO, Only paid $11/hour. Good money for this area, but at 30-40 hours he'd never bring home much more than $300 after taxes. Then of course he lost the job and works at a convenience store for even less.

 

If you don't mind the 60-70 hour weeks and being away from home 2-4 weeks at a time, you'll be OK. First year won't net you a whole lot, but (do some reading on these forums) keep a clean record, stay the contract, and then your options open up in year two. LTL definitely pays better, and as Chinatown says, tanker also.

If you're smart with your money, you'll fare well. This is a job that depends on YOU a lot more than 9-5 gigs. With the right attitude you'll succeed.

 

Learn how to manage you money.

Right now I work for $13.50 an hour, yes people I am under paid. But this is a two week assignment with osha, forklift and chemical response training so there is a trade off. I have no clue what the forklift training is for, they are a one truck company - it is a tanker truck that hauls some really nasty stuff. So I take advantage of the reduced paycheck trade for training and not worry about the money.

 

This is hard to explain to some people but a 12-14 hour day driving for me is less stressful then 10-11 in an office job. I can drive a truck 7 days a week if my hours allow but could never do that working in an office.

 

That's too bad.Hope in time your son finds a better paying job.

 

I don't know where you are, but my home stae is TN. ...At the TN College for Applied Technology the cost for a 2month program is $1450 (approx.), but They have a state lottery grant for a about half... My tuition $762.00... are you sure you have looked at every option?

 

Prime has a school and a tanker division, but as far as I know their tanker division is mostly food grade stuff. From what I here there is plenty of money to be made in the tanker world. Of course, just about any trucking job, especially OTR, is a big step up in pay from $12-13/hr. Except maybe the bottom of the bottom feeders, companies like Swift that start you off at like .23c/mile.


I'm pretty much in the exact same position as you.