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With the trucking from what I heard from people doesn't it matter how much you drive and also what you're hauling?
Anyone here do 100 hour work weeks regularly?
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All the truckers I know are farmers too. Get both incomes and you're good. One or the other is sketchy unless you got a couple hundred head of cattle. But yeah truck driving isn't gonna get you rich.
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That also on your dispatcher as well . Your only gonna make good money if your taking cross country trips like across I-10 ( Cali to Floridia) or traveling north and south I 85 Miami to ny. Team driving pays more since your truck is constables moving too. But as far as trucking goes you'll make just as much driving local or regional than you would over the road. Easiest gig for trucking hualing groceries , fuel or sanitation , work from 4 am till noon off on weekends and make about 70-80 yearly .
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isnt that only if you're an owner operator? if you work under a company they handle all of that
trucking is a good career if you're single with no kids, im thinking about doing it for 4-5 years, save up then open a business
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Yeah but you get paid less . Owner ops get about 2500 a week before bills company get about 800 to 1000 a week after taxes if you got a dispatcher on their job. Waiting for loads kills your $ . I will never drive over the road again.
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Ninjahood said hauling cars is easily 6 figures though so maybe that's more lucrative than the groceries etc.?
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Seriously. That's why the jobs are salaryNo such thing as a 40 hour work week
I usually put in between 50-60...can't even imagine 100. Quality of work is probably **** and there is probably a coke dependency as well
Most I did was about 60 a week at a global biotech firm. Hated it. Stress led to back spasm that caused me to miss a month of work. That was the wake up call. Left the job for a slightly lower paying gig where I'm at now. Doing about 45 hours and culture is great. It gives me enough time to work on my own project.
The friend that makes the most money working for a corporation is doing about 70-90 hours a week pulling close to $200k at around my age, late 20s.
The wake up call for me is that corporate America isn't for me. Going off on my own path.
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Is that him actually doing it or him speaking on someone else ? Car hualing is about the same . You honestly don't make six figures until your a owner op and have 2 trucks running , or you live in your truck. Auto hualing could be lucrative but you got to have a trailer and a couple of drivers and also a secretary / dispatcher for all the paper work and to place bids.
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Money only matters to a certain point to me. If you work too much you will go insane off the hundred hour weeks. I do it now. But this is my own thing and it just started. It's already getting better.
I could never ever do it for someone else and I would never ask that of someone working for me. That's just too much. It comes to a point where you're just asking why you're doing it. Once you're only chilling when you're sleeping for months on end your life officially sucks.
I could never ever do it for someone else and I would never ask that of someone working for me. That's just too much. It comes to a point where you're just asking why you're doing it. Once you're only chilling when you're sleeping for months on end your life officially sucks.
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When you work that much what do you even do with your money? Do you just stockpile it all? No sense in buying a nice house or car cuz you're basically never home.
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I save it and invest . I basically live off of 1000 a month since my car and house been paid off. I got a landscaping biz and mobile car wash on the side me and a partner put in on. Also with that week off I usually go out of town every other month
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Yeah same here. I'm just doing it so I can be done working sooner than later. It's a means to an end.
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Do you see yourself getting into a position to retire real early? Like late 30s to 40 early? The only people I've met that were able to retire that early that weren't entrepreneurs and were just working people got into good companies and ended getting a lot of stock in the company and after working for like 10 years with all the stock combined with not having kids usually they were able to retire at that age.
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Can't call it yet , I applied for border patrol and U.S. Customs so if I get hired I'm out of the oilfield asap. I just turned 30 in June and I know it's a dead end job honestly and I won't pro ally have a meaningful relationship as long as I work here so that's always an itch to get out . Honestly I'm month to month with it I could quit tomorrow and be good or stay and be great.
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Border patrol and customs? that'll be a pay cut right? Doing it to work less hours?
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I'm working with a traveler who's been all over the US for work. Basically a gypsy. He's itching to get back to North Dakota cause electricians have a lot of work at powerhouses up there. Said there's a contractor who just put out 300 calls for journeymen to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a per diem of $125.
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I do 35 a week and it's only literally 3 hours of real work in one day. It has affected my sleep heavily
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Less hours a little less pay . I'll make about 80k my first year if I work port of entries. Would work a 4 day and 2 day off schedule . My pops works for U.S. customs in atl is caking . He is a k9 agriculture specialist . Ole man brings in 150 a year and doesn't bust a sweat.
Yeah North Dakota is still booming with that cash . I would go up there but I can't imagine working in negative degree weather
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Congrats. I take it you're going to GSB?
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Hahaha word up! Most I've worked was like 48.
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Ain't no money in the world worth working a 100/hr work week.
We work 40/hrs a week and that's still too much. Making pennies on the dollar for companies and being "happy" to have a job is a terrible mentality.
Ideally, Monday-Thursday should be the work week. From 10-5 with an hour break and an option to work from home one day a week. Morale and Production would go up a lot.
The 40hr workweek is archaic. F the rat race.
We work 40/hrs a week and that's still too much. Making pennies on the dollar for companies and being "happy" to have a job is a terrible mentality.
Ideally, Monday-Thursday should be the work week. From 10-5 with an hour break and an option to work from home one day a week. Morale and Production would go up a lot.
The 40hr workweek is archaic. F the rat race.
Threads like this kill me...
DoubleJ's is right though, for the high(er) paying jobs a 40 hour workweek is gone in the US. Fewer resources and more responsibilities....
That's not to say you can't find 40 hour a week jobs, but they have caps on earning power and other things...again, if it works for you and your aspirations, more power to you. Doesn't work for me, personally.
IB and Mgmt Consulting are their own devils, so I won't speak to that...I don't get how those folks do it, but then again I haven't received a 6 figure bonus check in public accounting either.
This notion or badge of honor folks wear for "I worked 100 hours last week!" in public accounting provoke the "why?" response immediately. I'm working hard to get my folks to look at that as disgusting and a management failure if you're grinding that hard. Our work is built around 60-65 hours, so if you're 50-75% over that, that's poor management (i am management).
DoubleJ's is right though, for the high(er) paying jobs a 40 hour workweek is gone in the US. Fewer resources and more responsibilities....
That's not to say you can't find 40 hour a week jobs, but they have caps on earning power and other things...again, if it works for you and your aspirations, more power to you. Doesn't work for me, personally.
IB and Mgmt Consulting are their own devils, so I won't speak to that...I don't get how those folks do it, but then again I haven't received a 6 figure bonus check in public accounting either.
This notion or badge of honor folks wear for "I worked 100 hours last week!" in public accounting provoke the "why?" response immediately. I'm working hard to get my folks to look at that as disgusting and a management failure if you're grinding that hard. Our work is built around 60-65 hours, so if you're 50-75% over that, that's poor management (i am management).
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Should've mentioned this before, but when y'all talk about 60 hour work weeks do you mean all 60 hrs in the office?
If you have a laptop and you spend 20-25 of those hours at home, that's much more reasonable in my book. It frustrates me that in 2015 with all this advanced technology some managers still think you need to be in the office to do Excel docs.
If you have a laptop and you spend 20-25 of those hours at home, that's much more reasonable in my book. It frustrates me that in 2015 with all this advanced technology some managers still think you need to be in the office to do Excel docs.