Dockworkers being poorly paid is definitely not true. It's been a while since I lived in Long Beach, but these were among the most desirable jobs you can get. A

Dockworkers being poorly paid is definitely not true. It's been a while since I lived in Long Beach, but these were among the most desirable jobs you can get. Any time the union announced it was hiring, they needed to do a lottery to even get the opportunity to apply. Whatever the reason it is that not enough people have this job, it isn't that they don't want it or that it doesn't pay enough. Trucking pays pretty well, too, but comes with a different set of challenges. You have to be willing to live on the road, sleeping at truck stops or in your own cabin, never seeing your family if you even have one, sitting for 8-12 hours a day and destroying your spine orthopedically. It takes a special kind of person to want that job no matter how well it pays.