I guess I am relatively new by this forums standards, 7 years 2 pt, 5 ft driver. I'm a second generation driver my dad has over 20 years in at my building and is nearly his retirement. I love listening to him and all the other older guys (I'm 25) talk about how great things used to be. Fact is we make so much money I really don't expect the best of everything. I do my job with the values and sense of pride my dad did and people notice, it sucks hearing how rude some drivers ups or other are. I derive my sense of purpose as ups is one of the more important things in my life, it truly is what you make it. You moan and complain and chances are you hate everyday. I on the other hand love seeing my customers everyday, hearing about their kids and basically becoming family to people. Come to st michaels MD, everyone knows me by name and would (and have) do anything to help me out at any time. If in general your purpose in life is to have a career, money to take care of your family, and be content then yes, ups has given my life purpose and I unlike most of my coworkers take pride in what I do.... Maybe that's the difference between us newbies and you old timers, most of us kids don't know what pride is.