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<blockquote data-quote="Heavy Package" data-source="post: 3260778" data-attributes="member: 70051">Started with UPS at 37.&nbsp; Inside preload at a 75% pay cut.&nbsp; Started driving that same year and am now a full-time driver.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a reality check from someone who worked a 9-5 desk job out of college for 15 years till UPS.Inside the hub UPS is a hard, physical, thankless job often done alone with little to no communication or support.&nbsp; It was an adjustment, that&#039;s for sure.&nbsp; It sucks.&nbsp; You are nothing but a body with a heartbeat to them and you come home stinking and filthy.Driving is better - the pay and benefits are great.&nbsp; Day to day moving the boxes and driving I don&#039;t notice any fatigue on road but my body hurts when I get home.&nbsp; I need more rest than ever before and I sleep more on the weekends.&nbsp; Mentally I think I am 18, but my body is starting to tell me I am not.&nbsp; You still come home stinking and filthy but get paid decent.Driving for UPS is a day in and day out cat and mouse game.&nbsp; The constant stupid messages, safety jargon, and &quot;we can get you at any time&quot; feeling that management gives you is just plain weird coming from other fortune 500 corporate cultures.On the plus side, the pay and benefits are great, as well as the feeling that I leave the job at UPS and try not to take it home with me.&nbsp; It truly is a job that has you with the &quot;golden cardboard handcuffs&quot;.&nbsp; Only when you work for UPS do you truly understand what we are talking about here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heavy Package, post: 3260778, member: 70051"] Started with UPS at 37. Inside preload at a 75% pay cut. Started driving that same year and am now a full-time driver. Here's a reality check from someone who worked a 9-5 desk job out of college for 15 years till UPS. Inside the hub UPS is a hard, physical, thankless job often done alone with little to no communication or support. It was an adjustment, that's for sure. It sucks. You are nothing but a body with a heartbeat to them and you come home stinking and filthy. Driving is better - the pay and benefits are great. Day to day moving the boxes and driving I don't notice any fatigue on road but my body hurts when I get home. I need more rest than ever before and I sleep more on the weekends. Mentally I think I am 18, but my body is starting to tell me I am not. You still come home stinking and filthy but get paid decent. Driving for UPS is a day in and day out cat and mouse game. The constant stupid messages, safety jargon, and "we can get you at any time" feeling that management gives you is just plain weird coming from other fortune 500 corporate cultures. On the plus side, the pay and benefits are great, as well as the feeling that I leave the job at UPS and try not to take it home with me. It truly is a job that has you with the "golden cardboard handcuffs". Only when you work for UPS do you truly understand what we are talking about here. [/QUOTE]

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