Some folks call it a "braindead job"

[Kobalt]

All right, so, starting school on Monday for driving. A lot of my family tell me I'm "too intelligent" to drive a rig, say I won't like it. They say it's a mind-numbing or braindead job. To that I replied: Wal-mart isn't? What job could I get, realistically, without a college degree at this point, that would *not* be a braindead job? (I'm using their vocabulary there, no offense to anyone.) I am 21, with a house payment and a car payment. I live in a trailer, so the total on it is about 22k, and if I had paid in cash the car was 18k (29k over a 6 year note). I figure, assuming I'm a good driver and keep a clean record, giving the average salaries I've seen over two+ years experience especially sticking with one company for long periods of time, that I can have both the house and the car paid off in about five years, wasting little money on interest, having a savings account and 401k or IRA started to boot. What the hell is wrong with that? I have no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life- in fact I don't think I want it to be any one thing. But if I'm going to spend 8 to 10 hours a day doing something that is only tolerable-- I'm assuming that I will not despise trucking and that it will be at least tolerable, probably even likable considering I, like others I've read here, do good thinking while driving-- I may as well get PAID WELL for it. I'm sick of 8.69/hour jobs.
Oh. Look. I'm not even a trucker and already I'm complaining... Looks like it's in the blood.

On a side note, what does everyone do for Wi-Fi access? Verizon? Truck stops? Leech off unsecured networks?