My delima.. input anyone?

redsMULLT1

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Ok, I'm a truck driver. I started driving locally a few months back instead of driving cross country. Which is a major cut in pay but i get to be home everyday.. which isn't really all that good anyway.

Anyway the past month or so I have been dying to get back out on the road. Its like a damn disease. A few nights ago it was bad, I wanted to leave so damn bad. Then I get a phone call. It was an old friend from out on the road offering me a job. 2 runs a week. Usually 4 days, depending on weather and other factors. Refrigerated freight to California for Wal mart from here. Then rice or newspapers/magazines back to here. I'll get paid minimum $1,500 a week. New equipment, really nice trucks. Lots of rest time and no pushing. Its almost the ideal driving job.... shit I don't even know why I'm still here...



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I don't even know why you're still here either. Get your ass behind that wheel and start driving. If not just for the love of doing what you do, do it for the cash, bish.

What the fuck Jeremie? You're reading this? GET YOUR ASS UP and go do what you love to do!
 
My opinion is it has everything to do with your current relationship. If it's going good, you need to stick around and keep it going, get it stabilized. Establish the roots so it can withstand absences.
If it's already to that point, or if you can drive away knowing you risk what you've built to this point, then take the job and be happy.
 
I say quit your current job, pass up on the job offer and go to work for Walmart directly... maybe as a greeter or something... nice blue apron, handing out smilie stickers...





Seriously, take the OTR job. Do what you love...
 
Damnit.. I have tons of friends that live just North of Sacramento and thats where most of my deliveries will be.
I guess the only things that are holding me back is my love for my family (it would crush my dad if I left again) and the road is a hard life. No one gives a shit about you out there. You live in a truck and out of truck stops. No matter what your apperance is people think you are the lowest of low retarded truck driver. Theres no comfort of home. I will have teh internets on the laptop though.

And Walmart freight is like the mail. no matter what its got to get there. Ice, snow, floods, the clap... doesn't matter you gotta get there.

The love of what i do and the money really is drawing me to it though. I mean I really do love what I do.

I gotta sleep on it....
 
$1500 a week isn't bad. You could look at it as an investment. Do it for a while, save your bucks, and then you can buy a bad ass house to settle down in eventually.
 
I don't really know if I am the settling down type though. It would be more like save my bucks, buy my own truck and then get more like 5000 to 8000 a week and live my dream. But the cost of fuel is rising so much that my dream is quickly fading away.
 
Ok, then I'm confused, Jeremie. You love the work. You love the money. But don't you ever wanna reap the rewards of that income? What kind of life is it to have a wad of cash sitting around?
 
Breath said:
What kind of life is it to have a wad of cash sitting around?
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Its a good life. To know you can do whatever you want when you want. To be able to walk up to a car lot and say.. yeah I'll take the white one and hand them cash... and walk out with a vehicle, title in hand... its nice. Done it once.

If I am OTR trucking a house would do me no good. I will be driving my house. I mean, yeah I'll buy something small to kick it in when I'm around here... but nothing big.

There was a time when I had alot of cash laying around. If I didn't have 700+ in my wallet I felt broke. Now if I have a 10 spot I'm lucky. When i left OTR the first time I didn't leave the debts behind.
 
That's what I'm talking about, babe. I needed to hear you say that you enjoy something other than the job. That the freedom and security it gives you also makes you high. If I thought the job was all there was for you, then I don't think I could advise you to go for it. You're a rolling stone. Get rolling.
 
Breath said:
That's what I'm talking about, babe. I needed to hear you say that you enjoy something other than the job. That the freedom and security it gives you also makes you high. If I thought the job was all there was for you, then I don't think I could advise you to go for it. You're a rolling stone. Get rolling.
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You're so collected about everything. I think I could ask how to burn my house down and you would give me calm advice... thats pretty damn awesome! You're good peoples ma'am.
 
redsMULLT1 said:
You're so collected about everything. I think I could ask how to burn my house down and you would give me calm advice... thats pretty damn awesome! You're good peoples ma'am.
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Thank you. But this is the thing...I can think rationally and logically and in great detail when someone else has a dilemma. But something happens in my life...and my emotions start to react first. It's my caretaker personality. It's partly the reason I chose what I do. And I love what I do too. As passionately as you do. So when I sense the same passion from you as I have, the only choice you have is to fulfill it.
 
If you are in a relationship and love her .. then there are no wiser words than these (trust me on this)

Breath said:
My opinion is it has everything to do with your current relationship. If it's going good, you need to stick around and keep it going, get it stabilized. Establish the roots so it can withstand absences.
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If not .. then you should not waste either of your time. End it, and go after what you really love.
 
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