By the time I left, pretty much every week

Net? Or gross?

Gross, but it took a while of getting experience to get there

I don't mind not making a bunch. I'd pick the safer company I think

Long haul drivers made way more than I did

Apologies if this is boring, but did you have to have a lot of physical strength as a trucker?

gets all his strength from servo pies and iced coffees 😏

Not really, we were no touch so I didn’t have to load trailers and newer trucks are all automatic fifth wheels for connecting to trailers so I never had to pull the release manually

I love a good day of driving with coffee & a swiss cake roll and nothing but the destination! when on road trips

It’s more exciting that calling for updates on shipments lol

oo, and tunes

I was eating the PJ Fresh sandwiches from Pilot all the time

I bet I could do it.

I also did a lot of my driving in south side Chicago

I'd much rather do that than all the jobs people want me to do. But just keep hearing "it isn't intellectual". okay.

Honestly, half of my team had that mindset in my current role. They pretty much all came straight out of college and had no clue

I got an LLM degree

don't intend to pursue a career with that

waste of education it was

Then I explained what goes on when driving and they changed their minds. None of these people would’ve been able to manage an HOS clock

I listened to so many audiobooks and podcasts

I don't mind, I like manual work that isn't as much computering and socializing and writing papers

I would just love to daydream (safely) about fiction writing, which I tend to do best when my mind can wander. My mind wanders well (safely) when driving

I kept a notebook with me to jot down ideas for books, I do the same

really what! You drove a truck and thought of fiction ideas?

Yeah, I was chugging Reign and Bang every night so my mind was going 100 mile a minute

See, it is perfect! Also, I'm not alone haha

A big Boeing sentinel plane has been circling Abeline TX for hours and hours now. I wonder if the president really is in TX

@Unpossible I had a degree in music history and it was a waste too

I’m 100% wasting my degree too

I have a degree and was in construction for 3 years. I know the feeling

F to those with shitty degrees tryna get jobs in today's limited market

HA! there are so many of us

i'm having a hard enough time as is as an electrical engineer

i worked 4 months before i got laid off

One of my best friends is a chem engineer. I feel like electrical and mechanical has some of the hardest time getting work

not only was the degree useless but the liberal arts education sent me into a decade of confusion before I realized they had fed me a bunch of ridiculous and destructive BS. Critical theory and all that

I had to unlearn it

a word of advice: proceed with caution when using 3rd party recruiters to get jobs. a lot of times they hook you up with shitty companies that aren't in your best interest, hence why they're using a recruiter to fill said position.

I was a supervisor for the orientation department at my college and it was constant leftist social Justice narrative and it was sickening

it's awful!