Yorkshire Tramper:
driveress:
it is working out for me and I also love it. I feel like I’m on holiday every day and can’t believe I’m getting paid for it.
Jesus mate, your obviously in your honeymoon period. I certainly do not feel like I am on holiday every day, however I am an optimist and will pack a rubber ring and a deck chair in my bag next week and give it a go. Who knows I may lose that feeling of cant wait for my holidays to I am on it every day.
As I’m on agency it’s just one honeymoon period after another at the moment and it’s nice always being the breath of fresh air (clue in user name and avatar). Yes, maybe it will go sour one day but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Enjoy your working holiday next week 
driveress:
As I’m on agency it’s just one honeymoon period after another at the moment and it’s nice always being the breath of fresh air (clue in user name and avatar). Yes, maybe it will go sour one day but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Enjoy your working holiday next week
This is how it should be - if your not happy to turn up and get on with it you need to be asking yourself why ? 25 years driving and it took me 15 years to find a job I liked , as soon as I realised the job I was in wasn’t working out I packed my stuff and left , any employer who treated me well got 2 weeks notice , those who didn’t , didn’t .One person refused to beleive I wouldn’t be there on the Monday morning after being told in no uncertain terms I wouldn’t be there on the Friday night even got his wife to ring my house at 06.30 on the Monday morning to tell me I was late
To many are stuck in jobs they hate because they think it pays well - how many times have you seen the threads here - whos paying the most ? blah blah blah , they take the jobs with no idea of what they will have to do / the hours they will work , the number of nights out involved . They then get used to the good money , hate the job but cant bring themselves to leave because they can’t afford to miss a morgage payment or a car finance payment or aren’t prepared to take a step back with the corresponding cut in lifestyle because they have an “image” to keep up.
driveress:
As I’m on agency it’s just one honeymoon period after another at the moment and it’s nice always being the breath of fresh air (clue in user name and avatar). Yes, maybe it will go sour one day but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Enjoy your working holiday next week
As stated I will give it a go. found a tube of sun cream too for that extra holiday feeling
I’ve changed jobs a lot, and worked in many different sectors, including the civil service. But again and again, I come back to lorry driving. So I’m giving in and sticking with it now.
I get stressed, annoyed, irritated, anxious (like last week when an incident needing a fire engine was blocking a road in a little village and I had to turn the thing around with a queue of watching traffic 
).
But… sometimes when the sun is shining, I’ve got the radio on, there’s no hold-ups, I’ve got a few hours drive ahead, and got a fresh Costa on the go (sorry if that strikes panic into the hearts of some who are aghast that a driver would drink coffee and drive), I sometimes can’t believe I’m actually getting paid to be this content.
Would I recommend it? Nope - I don’t want the extra competition.
I’m not sure about recommending it as a career choice, but I did it for 45 yrs and would happily do it again. It probably helped that I never did anything involving RDCs or sitting around for hours waiting to be tipped, it was always self offload (sorry Carryfast) with the appropriate equipment, HIAB Moffet etc. I think its a job you’ve got to want to do and conditions, and the type of work are as important as money, within reason. No matter how good the money, if you hate the job it will soon lose its attraction.