Profile For Kat C.

Awesome video, thanks. I've been watching a lot of trucking vlogs (and steering away from ones by people who only just started, which seems a little like mere vanity that will be quickly weeded out) and reading a lot of blogs on here for some time, so I have a sense of what the life looks like. I should clarify- I was NOT hoping that it would be like any other job. I know that it's a total lifestyle, and that if you're leaving a high paying professional job to do it, it's because you want real work, you think freight is cool, and just like he said, to be like the captain of your ship where the job and your life are one thing. I'm also glad he says you have to be assertive, because that's the exact sticking point for me in my current profession. I am assertive, and am absolutely expected NOT to be, and measured by how passive I can be, and simply can no longer try to nail it without compromising all of my values. I'm just trying to figure out how the transition looks. It seems like there could be a leap of faith involved, where you ditch the place you're paying for, prior to money beginning to roll in from trucking, and without knowing yet if trucking will work out for you..... or conversely, you lose a lot of money paying for a place while you're not living in it, for long enough to know that trucking is going to work. I guess anything that doesn't require a leap of faith is probably not worth much anyway.

Ah yes, but it maybe doesn't feel like work, even when it's even harder work than a regular job? That's how it seems to me. I'm trying to rule out whether I have a case of grass-is-greener, since what's killing me about my profession is its 9-5ness, being inside, working with the public, staying in one place, not being challenged, dealing with meaningless office politics, etc etc. Thanks for the introductory info- this is a great resource.

Okay so in theory, if I were to become a trucker from scratch... I'm having an iffy time envisioning how I would transition into that. Maybe that's the cause of the big shortage in drivers...

Just from research alone, these seem to be the steps needed to do it, but I can't figure out what order they should be done in. (How did y'all break into this?) -- -Get educated through a trucking school, company, CDL school, etc. -Stop paying rent on a place you're not going to live in, right?? So, buying an RV would be logical, wouldn't it? -Quit other job -Get with a company and a trainer and start driving -Eventually graduate to refining your experience and interests and one day maybe becoming owner operator

What am I missing? What order did you do things in? What sort of "previous lives" do truckers come from and how did you transition? Is it really that much of a life commitment or do you find it's like any other job?