I really don’t want to waste my life away at some stupid 9-5 office job for 30 years and then retire, I want to have time to actually LIVE my life, so I came up with a plan.
When I turn 21 i’ll get my CDL license (license to drive 18 wheelers) and from then I will work for a small local day-cab company, meaning they only make hauling trips in the state so I will only be gone during the day. I will save up as much money as I can until I can buy my own rig and then contract my own work out whenever I want.
From then I will take jobs from different companies with my own rig hauling there goods, this time I’ll be doing the long cross-country haul (big money), and after a load or two I’ll sit back and live off of the money for a couple months. Because depending on what you’re hauling, you can make an upwards of 50,000 ESPECIALLY if you have your hazmat certification and can haul dangerous things like liquid nitrogen, gasoline, military hardware…etc. THAT is the beauty of owning your own truck because you can contract yourself out to take jobs like that, where as if you worked for a trucking company you couldn’t.
In the mean time I don’t ever plan to get any credit cards, take out any loans or mortgages so I won’t have ANYTHING to pay off, no debt, nothing. It’s just me living simply probably in an apartment situation with some friends, I won’t ever have a family or kids so I don’t have to worry about that. So this will leave me with allot of free time inbetween jobs to do whatever I want, I would also be saving money little by little and socking it away.
How does this plan sound to you?