Let the hunt begin…
Dec 11, 2007 Jobs
Today I applied for a new job. I’m not really actively looking for something new, but more of a passive hunt.
I’m really wanting something that pays better, not that my job doesn’t pay well, but I’d like to bring home a steady 800-1000 per week. Having a HAZMAT endorsement isn’t doing me a whole lot of good just delivering groceries.
Which reminds me, I have to be at work at 2:30 A.M., so I should really call it a night.
I’m noticing that a lot of companies are wanting people with a diploma from an established truck driving school. That’s fine, but I received on-the-job training. It took me about 3 weeks from the time I started learning about truck driving until I had my license (I’m a fast learner). What about folks like me? I hope it doesn’t become a catch-22 for new drivers.
Perhaps they will call me and I can move into a company that is more satisfying.
And now…sleep!
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Dreams of a better whatever.
Nov 27, 2007 Blogging, Work At Home
I’m sitting in Corpus Christi in the “business center” of a motel using their free internet connection. There’s a 30 minute limit (which I have completely and utterly ignored), and I am doing nothing but reading blogs and thinking about blogging.
Obsessed? Perhaps.
My dream job (other than owning my own company hot-shot driving, playing in a rock band, or running network security audits) is to be a full-time blogger. I see so many people on the net spilling their guts at random and making a killing doing so, while people like myself work 50-60 hours per week, breaking our backs to pay the bills, and hoping for an hour at the end of the day (after the house is cleaned and the kids are tucked in) to have a much-deserved cup of coffee and to post meager lines of text describing those things that are tucked away in our minds, such as how much our jobs suck or what we wish we were doing.
I’m not a professional anything, really. I drive trucks. I bring groceries to your convenience stores, unload them from the trucks, and wheel them into the stores. I don’t feel that there is much (if anything) blog-worthy about that.
Or is there?
As I type this, I think “You know, I wonder how many trucking blogs there are out there…”
A quick Google Blog search yeilds “Results 1 - 10 of about 106,860 for truck driving.”
Wow…there are a few. Perhaps I should start one as well. I keep having these big hopes and dreams about running a blog network (like b5 media, etc.) but just don’t have the time to dedicate to such things.
There has to be some way to break into this market. Heck, I just want to earn enough with AdSense to pay for some real hosting for my themes blog.
Sometimes these things feel so out of reach. Why do I get so down about it?
It’s only the medium of the new generation.
Ah well, all things in time. I should keep my head up, and so should any just-for-fun bloggers with big dreams. They can come true.
But what do I know, I’m just a trucker :)
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