One of my friends is a trucker. He actually turned to that when laid off from a teaching job, because the pay was good. After 15 years, now, he says enough is enough. Too much time away from his family, and he wants to do something different. He has been using those evenings in hotels on the road to take online classes for some IT job - I think network management. It might be worth keeping something like this in the back of your mind once you settle into trucking. By that I mean think ahead to the day when you might get tired of it for whatever reason, and have a couple of alternatives or backup plans.Maaan I feel dumb compared to all of you guys having only received my highschool diploma. I just want to have a driving career though, probably taxi for a few years until I can save up for a course that gets me into long haul trucking.. Yes long hours alone which may not be the best for my personality, however the money is worth it, and I really love being out on the open road.. On top of all those hours alone, from what I've read, it's a job with plenty of interaction to be had, just all with strangers.
One of my friends is a trucker. He actually turned to that when laid off from a teaching job, because the pay was good. After 15 years, now, he says enough is enough. Too much time away from his family, and he wants to do something different. He has been using those evenings in hotels on the road to take online classes for some IT job - I think network management. It might be worth keeping something like this in the back of your mind once you settle into trucking. By that I mean think ahead to the day when you might get tired of it for whatever reason, and have a couple of alternatives or backup plans.
Well yes. People who see studies as something else than paying for a paper that ll make it easier to be taken seriously are .. strange to me. I mean I'd always learn several times faster by studying on my own and sitting in a class for 3 hours seems to be a girl thing. It s so damn boring.Is self study regarded as education?! Sometimes the world is stupid.. You get that paper called certification yet it's just only in paper, you're not really that knowledgeable in a certain area unless you really apply it.
Certificates are bullshit
Well yes. People who see studies as something else than paying for a paper that ll make it easier to be taken seriously are .. strange to me. I mean I'd always learn several times faster by studying on my own and sitting in a class for 3 hours seems to be a girl thing. It s so damn boring.
I remember missing a whole semester of business strategy classes - i showed up for the last class where the teacher summarized the whole semester in 30 min at the begining of the class. I went to the text without studying the week after, finished it in 1/3rd of the time and got the top mark in my school. It puzzles me why they make the classes so long- i d just zone out after 5 min as every class was so horribly slow going. Or why they insist on learning crap by heart rather than just give us the "mental tools" necessary for that field. As everyone should know from experience that you forget all that crap within 2 weeks after the exam anyway.
I mean I'd always learn several times faster by studying on my own and sitting in a class for 3 hours seems to be a girl thing. It s so damn boring.
One of my friends is a trucker. He actually turned to that when laid off from a teaching job, because the pay was good. After 15 years, now, he says enough is enough. Too much time away from his family, and he wants to do something different. He has been using those evenings in hotels on the road to take online classes for some IT job - I think network management. It might be worth keeping something like this in the back of your mind once you settle into trucking. By that I mean think ahead to the day when you might get tired of it for whatever reason, and have a couple of alternatives or backup plans.
I'm done with school. Just. Done. The things I learn now, I teach myself.Also, I'm technically pursuing a psych degree. I'm only a course or two into it, and it's been on hold for a couple of years. But I've found that "Currently pursuing a masters in [a thing that paints me as a well-rounded individual who is eager to learn or whatever]" is pretty good resume material anyway. So I have no idea if I'll finish it, because I don't know if there'd be much difference between "pursuing" and "have" at this point.
I generally don't like having big things like that just lingering out there, but in this case it's hard to care.