Michelle Sika
New Member
Hi! I joined here to get some insight on trucking life, and perhaps some stories you guys have from your own experiences, as well as share my thoughts and interest.
Since I was a very small child, big rigs have always fascinated me, and they still do, perhaps even more-so. They're massive metal machines with so much power, and their engines always please my ears. I have even dreamed of daily driving one just out of sheer fascination. On top of that, I absolutely love driving. Vehicles of all sorts fascinate me, I love to look into their specifications and history, it's all so fun to me.
I'm currently not a trucker, I work a desk job for 6 hours a day part time, and it's stupid easy, I love it. And here's where the issues begin. I have three main hobbies; messing with retro computers, and graphics art. (CGI, like 3D models, animations and textures). The final hobby is cars, in particular, I'm in love with the coincidentally most expensive ones... Classic cars, and big rigs, especially garbage trucks standard semis. All of which are ridiculous expensive considering my pay grade. At most I think I would just get my dream car (a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado) and a semi.
So with those goals in mind, trucking has been a reoccurring thought, and a very good one at that. My research suggests I would be able to acquire my dream car within the first year (Which I have heard is around $20,000 or less at worst) which is already double what I make now. That, and I know I would enjoy driving a semi, and seeing so much of the U.S. Many have said trucking is a very lonely job, but that isn't an issue for those of us who don't have anyone to talk to as is, therefore a non-issue for me.
All seems perfect for me, except one thing. The hours are intimidating to me. You see, I like my 3D animation/modeling hobby, as well as playing games, it's what I look forward to all day when I'm not home. Now I could just truck temporarily for a couple of years, but I guess I see it as losing a massive chunk of time I could have been working on art or playing games. Also yes, I'm aware that pay gets better the more seniority you have, and that also intrigues me. I guess if I enjoyed trucking at least almost as much as my hobbies I wouldn't mind, but I'm honestly not sure how much I will enjoy it.
And to give a little more background, in mid 2018 I bought my dream car, a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado, for $800. I was going to get it running and daily that. Well, I did get it running, barely, it was not driveable, but the abuse to the electrical system from the previous owner(s) became clear after I addressed the minor mechanical issues. And with no immediate access to a huge chunk of money, and no longer having time to store it on my parents property, I was forced to sell it for a fraction of what I paid and invested. But that didn't bother me, it was losing the car that bothered me, it really bothered me, and that is what started this insanity, the intense want for that car back; a need perhaps. The amount of joy that car brought me is indescribable. So all of those things, is why I'm considering trucking.
What do you guys think?
Since I was a very small child, big rigs have always fascinated me, and they still do, perhaps even more-so. They're massive metal machines with so much power, and their engines always please my ears. I have even dreamed of daily driving one just out of sheer fascination. On top of that, I absolutely love driving. Vehicles of all sorts fascinate me, I love to look into their specifications and history, it's all so fun to me.
I'm currently not a trucker, I work a desk job for 6 hours a day part time, and it's stupid easy, I love it. And here's where the issues begin. I have three main hobbies; messing with retro computers, and graphics art. (CGI, like 3D models, animations and textures). The final hobby is cars, in particular, I'm in love with the coincidentally most expensive ones... Classic cars, and big rigs, especially garbage trucks standard semis. All of which are ridiculous expensive considering my pay grade. At most I think I would just get my dream car (a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado) and a semi.
So with those goals in mind, trucking has been a reoccurring thought, and a very good one at that. My research suggests I would be able to acquire my dream car within the first year (Which I have heard is around $20,000 or less at worst) which is already double what I make now. That, and I know I would enjoy driving a semi, and seeing so much of the U.S. Many have said trucking is a very lonely job, but that isn't an issue for those of us who don't have anyone to talk to as is, therefore a non-issue for me.
All seems perfect for me, except one thing. The hours are intimidating to me. You see, I like my 3D animation/modeling hobby, as well as playing games, it's what I look forward to all day when I'm not home. Now I could just truck temporarily for a couple of years, but I guess I see it as losing a massive chunk of time I could have been working on art or playing games. Also yes, I'm aware that pay gets better the more seniority you have, and that also intrigues me. I guess if I enjoyed trucking at least almost as much as my hobbies I wouldn't mind, but I'm honestly not sure how much I will enjoy it.
And to give a little more background, in mid 2018 I bought my dream car, a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado, for $800. I was going to get it running and daily that. Well, I did get it running, barely, it was not driveable, but the abuse to the electrical system from the previous owner(s) became clear after I addressed the minor mechanical issues. And with no immediate access to a huge chunk of money, and no longer having time to store it on my parents property, I was forced to sell it for a fraction of what I paid and invested. But that didn't bother me, it was losing the car that bothered me, it really bothered me, and that is what started this insanity, the intense want for that car back; a need perhaps. The amount of joy that car brought me is indescribable. So all of those things, is why I'm considering trucking.
What do you guys think?