Hey man, you gotta do what you gotta do to get where you want to be. If that means embracing the suck and working some real long hours for right now, then that's what needs done. It won't be like that forever anyway. I've been in similar situations. A temporary struggle, even a Herculean one, is most often worth the feeling of victory.
I got back in at my old company so I'm back to unloading trucks and moving freight. Been doing this for about five years interrupted and I've seen the inside of probably ten thousand trailers and I've seen hundreds of people come and go. It ain't the best job but it's work and it's honest. Plus the people I work with are hilarious.
I'd like to go from unloading trucks to driving them, though. Get a CDL and get paid 55K-70K to travel around, haul loads, meet folks and see the country?? Count me in, I say. Hope to make it happen within a year or two. It's been my dream since I was young.
Just remember, there ain't a damn thing wrong with honest work. Folks look down on blue collar men and people who work with their hands. I say let 'em have their cushy air-conditioned office jobs and their cubicles. I like work that's open to the sky, back-breaking and work that I can look at and say: "I put that there, I did that, I made it happen." It's a hell of a lot better than staring at numbers on a screen all day and sitting at some lame desk, to me anyway.
Some folks go to college and they love that office stuff, good for them, I hope they're doing well. But that all seemed like a waste of time and energy to me. When all of my friends were going off to college, I went to work. I've done a little bit of everything and I've been in the workforce since I was 13 years old, most of it manual labor. I don't regret a thing. I'm proud of who I am and all that I've done. I tell you what, that shit makes you tougher than rawhide in a very short time.
06-Mar-2019 10:02:01
