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  3. Mar 4, 2017 #42
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    I think he's here for attention. His braggadocio is nauseating. I'm this, I'm that. Everyone is impressed with me. Blah blah blah. His shtick is getting old.
     
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  4. Mar 4, 2017 #43
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    I had a base salary of $42k. Not the $90k I was promised after graduating. I made more money running a pipe crew in construction,.. less BS and stress.

    Now I own my own truck and call my own shots. I have the freedom and income now to do pretty much anything I want.

    As the OP pointed out,.. its an old Columbia,.. not much to look at. The problem with that is he is judging the book by its cover. I will let him assume and believe what ever he thinks he sees.

    You can assume what you want as well. I'd rather you guys discover the truths and transparent stereotypes on your own.

    Chew on this for a moment,.. that $12,000 Freightliner can earn the same as that nice shiny $180,000 rig. Personally I am more comfortable with the $12,000 truck and a $168,000 nest egg,.. than being leveraged to the neck and forced to labor through to cover the note on something that expensive.

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    I'm not calling him a lair. I cant tell you for certain if he was or wasnt.

    Only thing for certain is that he's been asking the same circle of questions and making the same type of threads over and over for a long while now. So where does that leave us to try to understand him?

    I'm sure some of the things I say and post are confusing to others who do not know my history or background.

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  8. Mar 4, 2017 #46
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    You hit the nail on the head. When I was a young 21 year old coder and studied the latest languages at the time, I would stay up for days at a time coding nonstop since I figured one day I would hit the jackpot like some other coders I knew. The owner of StumbleUpon.com asked me to help his startup site grow and now it's huge so I felt that I could do the same and the motivation was unreal. There is no way I could compete with my younger self and the kids fresh out of college today have that same drive as me. There is no way I could keep up 20 years from now so I planned on an early exit while I am still young.
     
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    And you want to get into dry van freight on long hauls 600 miles or more. The most competitive and lowest paying segment in trucking.
     
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  10. Mar 5, 2017 #48
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    A pirated copy of Dreamweaver easily spotted the errors :) Though it no longer worked with newer Windows versions so I switched to notepad+. I would have happily paid for Dreamweaver at a reasonable price. Their price tag was outrageous and I didn't want to support insane pricing to set a trend. $50 - $99 would have been reasonable. I later developed my own script to automatically tab after brackets within functions and statements and remove extra space. I always wrote the code clean but had to clean up others. I created a lot of mods for the phpBB group in the beginning of my career which they rejected your code if it was messy so that helped me early on keep things really clean.
     
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  11. Mar 5, 2017 #49
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    So I have to ask this - which owner asked you?
     
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    OMG I just realized something. After being in IT for more than 20 years, I know one thing that is fact, if someone is doing coding work in say PHP, then the other popular languages are not hard to acquire, it isn't like trying to program in cobol after years of Lisp.

    I do some programming in Phython, PHP and derivatives of C. I used to use Fortran, Cobol and other older stuff but I never used Dreamweaver, don't see how that is important.
     
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