I've owned my landscaping business for the last 12 years, since I was 18. I'm pretty sick of it, looking for a job with benefits that I can actually retire on. I applied for a cover driver job, spent a lot of time in the last week memorizing the 5 & 10, today I spent 8 hours in a dinky UPS office taking the computer classes before I go to "UPS boot camp" next week. I'll be in there all day tomorrow and then head to New Stanton PA for the week of training.
I just hope I'm not wasting my time, as I can can make decent money in the landscaping, but I'm sick of the hassles with employees and 70-80 HR work weeks in season and then almost nothing thru the winter except for snow plowing, which can be hell all by itself! My neighbor has been with UPS for 17 years, it took him 4 years to get into full-time driving, where the pay is worth it. I can scale back the landscaping and let employees do most of the work and I just manage it and work at UPS part-time until I get a full-time driving position. I have my CDL and could get a driving job elsewhere, but I like to work hard and go home and sleep well. I always worked hard and got super dirty every day, at least this job I wouldn't get as dirty LOL.
I passed the road test in a beat up old manual package car, the sup said I handled that truck better than some of his full-time drivers, scored a 60, beating their previous best record of 70. Judging by the computer classes, operating the truck will be the easiest part of the job, it looks like a pretty physical and mentally demanding job under pressure, I just hope I don't trade the hassles of being-self employed for the BS of being under union and corporate rules and regret it!
I'll give it a go, but I'm kinda stressed out, anybody been there, done that?
I just hope I'm not wasting my time, as I can can make decent money in the landscaping, but I'm sick of the hassles with employees and 70-80 HR work weeks in season and then almost nothing thru the winter except for snow plowing, which can be hell all by itself! My neighbor has been with UPS for 17 years, it took him 4 years to get into full-time driving, where the pay is worth it. I can scale back the landscaping and let employees do most of the work and I just manage it and work at UPS part-time until I get a full-time driving position. I have my CDL and could get a driving job elsewhere, but I like to work hard and go home and sleep well. I always worked hard and got super dirty every day, at least this job I wouldn't get as dirty LOL.
I passed the road test in a beat up old manual package car, the sup said I handled that truck better than some of his full-time drivers, scored a 60, beating their previous best record of 70. Judging by the computer classes, operating the truck will be the easiest part of the job, it looks like a pretty physical and mentally demanding job under pressure, I just hope I don't trade the hassles of being-self employed for the BS of being under union and corporate rules and regret it!
I'll give it a go, but I'm kinda stressed out, anybody been there, done that?