To leave or not?

Look op, i am going to offer a bit of advice for you, seeing you have a future and going to get married.


You can always make money

you can do your 40, get home and have a side job selling crap on Amazon and eBay, doing it right you can make more than what you make doing your 40. People your age are making five and six times that amount of money without killing themselves.


However …


You can’t make more time.

You start your family life and devote as much time as you can to it so it is a stable family because it pays off in the long run.

 

That sounds horrible, if I were you I'd go OTR asap.

Just kidding.

You're 26, if you haven't already I suggest you talk to a good financial planner. They might be able to clue you in on things you may need to look out for in the future among other things and that may make the decision for you right there.

I'm not going to tell you to work your fingers to the bone but you are basically working a part-time job right now.

 

Since you're home during the week working 40 hours per week most including myself would say you have it made as long as you earn a comfortable living. When I was 26 years old I had a similar situation minus the pets but gave it up to earn more driving OTR. I lost my girlfriend after 6 months because she didn't want to accept that I would only be home on weekends or sometimes once once for one night alone on a Wednesday. After a few years during my younger days as I drove city to city state to state I decided to go back to local city driving and build my way now to one of the top wages locally. I've been married for only 5 years (got married late in life) so my belief is Money $$ is good however, you can never get back time or might not find that special lady your life. In some cases you might get a 2nd chance however most don't. The money can always be made but "Time" can never be given back or recouped. From that I'm sure you will be able to make your decision.

 

Ask the beer hauling boss for a nice raise.

 

You're living my dream life. Enjoy every moment of it, driver. If circumstances change, in the future, then maybe consider more work hours but right now you're good and that's priceless.

 

I agree with that too. OP if you have any FedEx contractors hiring around you check that out. My neighbor does that and is home daily. Leaves out at 4am and back by noon-1pm doing 340 miles a day. Drops the set, hooks to another and drives 170mi back to the yard. About 1150wk avg with the option to work a 6th day

 

When I used to job hop I'd make a list of "positive and negative" things for each company and go with the one with bigger positives. Sometimes the higher pay isn't worth the trouble, or starting all over again.