Your post made me giggle. I am still in school and not looking to go over the road right now due to children at home, but someday I will; for all the reasons you mentioned above.
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
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2 weeks! actually > 2 weeks. The anxiety and panic is beginning to surface. What was I thinking? hysterical inner voice questions. OMG! Is this really happening? No more behind the chair meltdowns, discussions on the inferiority of mankind (ok, man, but no offense intended-just what women like to do...ok many of us but not all, generally speaking. Ok, it is intended, but only because we can't change it.) No more inappropriately unleashing my demons looking for unsolvable answers. No more complaints that I'm only willing to work (stand on my feet) 3 days, cuz I'll be sitting 3x as much. Visions of the countryside (miles and miles of bug splattered windows and desolate terrain) await. Vivid perceptions of stinky bathrooms, mental pictures of crabby obnoxious a-holes cutting me off, and terrifying nightmares of butt-clenching, barely staying on the road driving on a mountain pass that only Native Americans on horseback should travel. Yep, so excited!