From: Mike G on

"Conor" <conor.turton(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1fe10bb6d0f10a06989f60(a)news.individual.net...
> In article <PO6dnSSTZOcoZOvYRVnyig(a)bt.com>, Brimstone says...
>> Conor wrote:
>> > In article <28qdnYlEEeT0lOvYRVnysA(a)bt.com>, Matty says...
>> >> Even though I'm only been driving for a year. I have been thinking
>> >> about a career as a HGV driver. I love driving and could do it all
>> >> day long. :)
>> >>
>> > If you like driving, forget doing your HGV. After a few years, you'll
>> > be sick to death of it. I used to love driving and would do 100 miles
>> > per day bombing around local roads in my car. Now I can barely bring
>> > myself to do anything other than work and back.
>> >
>>
>> <snip tale of woe>
>>
>> And then people wonder why no one wants to be a lorry driver.
>>
> It has it's good days and they do outweigh the bad. The problem is that
> when it's bad, it's always something out of your control and unlike a
> regular job, you can't just clock off at 5pm and go home.
>
> I can't see why the hell anyone would subject themselves to the
> regimented prison sentence that is office based work.

One mans fish is another mans poisson. :-)
I can't see why anyone would choose to drive a HGV on our congested roads.
Or someone else, spending maybe hours on getting to and from work. Not to
mention the costs involved..
AFAIC my working day starts when I leave home until I get back, so the less
time spent travelling the better.
ATM it takes me 5mins to get to and from work. Still 10 minutes unpaid
though.:-)
Mike.

From: Conor on
In article <1165428767.292321.199430(a)l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
John Laird says...
> Conor wrote:
> > In article <PO6dnSSTZOcoZOvYRVnyig(a)bt.com>, Brimstone says...
> > >
> > > And then people wonder why no one wants to be a lorry driver.
> > >
> > It has it's good days and they do outweigh the bad. The problem is that
> > when it's bad, it's always something out of your control and unlike a
> > regular job, you can't just clock off at 5pm and go home.
> >
> > I can't see why the hell anyone would subject themselves to the
> > regimented prison sentence that is office based work.
>
> Cos you can clock off at 5pm and go home :-)
>
> [Of course, depending on the "office", bad things can there happen as
> well, also out of your control, but when you're salaried you stay until
> they're fixed.]
>
> And you used to be so positive about trucking too...
>
>
Time of year TBH

--
Conor

The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how
seldom they defeat us.
From: Matty on

"Conor" <conor.turton(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1fe10bb6d0f10a06989f60(a)news.individual.net...
> In article <PO6dnSSTZOcoZOvYRVnyig(a)bt.com>, Brimstone says...
>> Conor wrote:
>> > In article <28qdnYlEEeT0lOvYRVnysA(a)bt.com>, Matty says...
>> >> Even though I'm only been driving for a year. I have been thinking
>> >> about a career as a HGV driver. I love driving and could do it all
>> >> day long. :)
>> >>
>> > If you like driving, forget doing your HGV. After a few years, you'll
>> > be sick to death of it. I used to love driving and would do 100 miles
>> > per day bombing around local roads in my car. Now I can barely bring
>> > myself to do anything other than work and back.
>> >
>>
>> <snip tale of woe>
>>
>> And then people wonder why no one wants to be a lorry driver.
>>
> It has it's good days and they do outweigh the bad. The problem is that
> when it's bad, it's always something out of your control and unlike a
> regular job, you can't just clock off at 5pm and go home.
>
> I can't see why the hell anyone would subject themselves to the
> regimented prison sentence that is office based work.
>
>

The mundanity of office life doesn't appeal to me. I've been there tried
that, never again.

I like to idea of driving for a living and blissfully shutting off from the
naaaaaging wife and screaming kids! sounds like an escape plan Batman! lol





From: David Taylor on
On 2006-12-06, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Conor wrote:
>> In article <28qdnYlEEeT0lOvYRVnysA(a)bt.com>, Matty says...
>>> Even though I'm only been driving for a year. I have been thinking
>>> about a career as a HGV driver. I love driving and could do it all
>>> day long. :)
>>>
>> If you like driving, forget doing your HGV. After a few years, you'll
>> be sick to death of it. I used to love driving and would do 100 miles
>> per day bombing around local roads in my car. Now I can barely bring
>> myself to do anything other than work and back.
>>
>
><snip tale of woe>
>
> And then people wonder why no one wants to be a lorry driver.

I doubt that. Since no one wants to be a lorry driver, everyone already
knows why they don't want to be a lorry driver.

--
David Taylor
From: Conor on
In article <roudnVAH-7l6oerYnZ2dnUVZ8s-dnZ2d(a)bt.com>, Matty says...

> Love the sick of it part! excellent and brutally honest, gives you a real
> insight there.
>
> I'm going to give it a lot of hard thought over xmas and see if I'll make a
> go of the idea.
>
> Thanks for your help here.
>
No problem.

Just ignore the wonderful picture places like this sell you:

http://www.pathwaylgv.co.uk/welcome2.htm

We ripped it to bits a bit in Trucknet and a few people phoned them up.


--
Conor

The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how
seldom they defeat us.