6 months on the same company doing partial dedicated home daily and I am getting tired. My total experience is close to 1 year and my CDL -A is about a year old. Should I quit now and do other things?
Posted by East_Indication_7816@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Or do I just need a week long vacation. I want to do other things like drive a small car doing gig work. More freedom, less stress. I feel like a prisoner in a semi truck. No freedom to stop when you want, where you want. I don't even think a pay of $1000/week is worth it.
Requettie@reddit
go to a different company that fits ur wants/needs. stay in trucking.
BigFaceGurbber@reddit
Well man I don’t know if asking people online what to do with your life is a great idea, ideally you should have some time to ask yourself what you want the next years of your life to look like, now moving to a different company with better pay sounds like the immediate best option but then after that ask yourself THEN WHAT, I’m telling you that I haven’t even started trucking but I’m almost 21 and going to start trucking for a mega since they are going to pay for the training and all I plan to stay there for at least a year and trust me I know it will be brutal pay wise and hours wise I know but well after that year or during that year should I say I’ll start looking for another company with better pay and stay there or even look at getting into a trade through Union and even if I gotta be on a waitlist for the union I’ll keep on trucking until I get into a trade my goal is electrician and if I become a lineman I could get paid more with the CDL so yeah that’s the plan but trust me I know I’m about to slave away for a year or two, but Rome wasn’t built overnight and people overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 2 or 3 decades, really you have to be optimistic the pessimist will say well you haven’t been around long enough to know what it’s like to feel this or that but I’m also not them, my mentality isn’t the same and life is a choice it’s what you make it, you either let it stay the same or you change it very few can say they don’t have a choice so start taking control of your life man the opportunities will present themselves if you work hard consistency and hard work go a long way
BB5er@reddit
Good rule of thumb, don’t quit until the next gig is lined up, give 2 weeks notice when you go, and DON’T take a job that doesn’t let you give 2 week’s notice. Anyone who’d hire someone who willingly leaves a job without notice is looking for meat in the seat, not a person with any kind of integrity or character.