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I’m curious about this intersection of truck driver and HN: not the typical demographics. What got you into either trucking or tech (not sure which was first)?
by azinman2 6y ago
I’m curious about this intersection of truck driver and HN: not the typical demographics. What got you into either trucking or tech (not sure which was first)?
- jhayward 6y agoThere are a lot of people who left white-collar jobs for trucking; engineers especially. Something about wanting to be more or less your own boss, control your own schedule, and not be in an office is appealing. So your stereotype for "trucker" has to be resilient to the occasional former nuclear physicist or mathematician showing up.
- a3n 6y agoI used to be in software, which is how I found HN. Then I rage-quit my last in-career job. I was a B-player, and past my fresh date. I stumbled around a bit, and wound up here. I like it. I haven't been in a meeting in three years, and my commute is three feet. Right now I'm in California on I-5, looking at Mt Shasta floating above the clouds. I get paid to look out the window.