What should I choose?

Get the CDL and make more money.

 

Not sure why you are asking someone other than yourself that question. You are ultimately in charge what your future holds. Maybe some of the Amazon warehouse workers on this site can chime in.

 

Have you ever done trucking ?

 

You really like trucking? I think maybe you really like the media portrayal of trucking. Look, you're asking a lot of questions, and that's very good.

Trucking is brutal for the first few months, especially. After that, it relaxes to 70 hour weeks, sleeping in noisy, stinky filthy parking lots, always hoping that clown backing in, keeping you awake with his beep beep back up alarm doesn't scrape your fender mirror off. Trying to eat healthy from grease pit food, peeing in disgusting filthy restrooms, having to wait for 5 or 6 hours to get loaded and unloaded, driving through blizzards.

It's a gas. I love it, actually, but seriously, it's NOT for everyone, and it's NOT easy, for the first year or two.

 

Oh, I forgot to say: I love it NOW. I've had my CDL over 3 years, I got mine through the Swift academy in Lewiston, ID, end of Aug, 2017. I have taken many months off, 3 different times, because I was so discouraged, I didn't think I'd ever drive a truck again.

NOW, I love it. Ask my wife, she'd tell you what a miserable mess I was for the first year or 1-1/2 years. Not kidding. BRUTAL.

 

Good. I'm not trying to discourage you, in fact, quite the opposite, I am absolutely rooting for you! But, please understand, the first year is a rough ride. I don't know the actual numbers, but the vast majority of new drivers do not last the first year.

You CAN do this, please just be prepared mentally and emotionally. Learn NOW how to fall asleep WHEN YOU WANT TO. With noise. Learn to handle the stress, because as a new driver, yeah. Stress.

You have good resources on these forums, and you're using them. Keep it up. You got this.