Time For A Career Change

rigrunner said

truck driving is a good option. always freight to haul. depending on the loss of lisence you may be able to go to driver school and get placed in a job. i was local and otr for years then the local fell out went back to otr started out at 55000 per year.

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My loss of license was back in '94. So no longer on my driving record in Ontario.

$55K is not a bad starting point. When I worked in high tech, my best year was working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Lots of overtime. Considering all the stuff I did and the responsibilities I had, $45K didn't seem like much. But working with the engineers debugging things or working on prototype stuff always kept my mind active. I like the challenge of troubleshooting.
Now compare that to the mind-numbingly boring newspaper runs. A trained monkey could do it. For the first 2 weeks I worked some long days (18 to 22 hours). That dropped to 16 hour days, 6 days/week. Eventually they changed up the runs to where I was working about 12hrs/day Monday to Thursday, 9 hours on Friday, and 5 hours on Saturday. Made $85K last year. Go figure?


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