Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
"On Topic" When you were in high school was UPS employment your career plan?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Re-Raise" data-source="post: 2550614" data-attributes="member: 16501"><p>I live in the Midwest on my family's farm outside of a small town. I graduated high school with As without ever putting in much effort.</p><p></p><p>I took the ACT one time and got a 31 on it. Everyone said I should be an engineer.</p><p></p><p>I went to college about an hour from where I grew up and graduated with a 4.0.</p><p>While I was in college I started working pre-load for the extra money. I could do the math in school and could BS my way through my other classes by figuring out what the professors thought and regurgitating it.</p><p></p><p>I decided I didn't want to spend my life in an office punching numbers into a computer or sitting in endless meetings talking instead of actually doing something. So I stayed with UPS after graduating and became a driver.</p><p></p><p>My brother took the engineering route and was hired by Caterpillar straight out of college. He was forced to travel around the country on meetings. He quickly gained 80 pounds, is twice divorced and no longer with Caterpillar. He rents a house and has declared bankruptcy when he tried to open some phone stores.</p><p></p><p>My wife and I built a house, haven't had any debt for about 20 years, paid for two daughters to go to college and have assets totaling over a million, not including our pensions.</p><p></p><p>I have over 30 yrs in now and while I sometimes hate my job, other times I really enjoy it. I don't believe I failed at anything that brought me to UPS. I just chose this path and I don't regret it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Re-Raise, post: 2550614, member: 16501"] I live in the Midwest on my family's farm outside of a small town. I graduated high school with As without ever putting in much effort. I took the ACT one time and got a 31 on it. Everyone said I should be an engineer. I went to college about an hour from where I grew up and graduated with a 4.0. While I was in college I started working pre-load for the extra money. I could do the math in school and could BS my way through my other classes by figuring out what the professors thought and regurgitating it. I decided I didn't want to spend my life in an office punching numbers into a computer or sitting in endless meetings talking instead of actually doing something. So I stayed with UPS after graduating and became a driver. My brother took the engineering route and was hired by Caterpillar straight out of college. He was forced to travel around the country on meetings. He quickly gained 80 pounds, is twice divorced and no longer with Caterpillar. He rents a house and has declared bankruptcy when he tried to open some phone stores. My wife and I built a house, haven't had any debt for about 20 years, paid for two daughters to go to college and have assets totaling over a million, not including our pensions. I have over 30 yrs in now and while I sometimes hate my job, other times I really enjoy it. I don't believe I failed at anything that brought me to UPS. I just chose this path and I don't regret it. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
"On Topic" When you were in high school was UPS employment your career plan?
Top