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The real reason I haven’t left my job

I have a CDL or Commercial Driver's License, it's the license you need to be a truck driver. I got it because I was struggling to find work, but I was 19 when I got it, and you can't cross over state lines driving commercially until you're 21. Trucking in my town is the main source of income alongside the mine, so I thought it would be easy to find a job driving truck, but insurance companies wouldn't cover me until I was 21, so I got a job cleaning hotel rooms. Eventually, I moved up to the front desk, but I still maintain my license just in case. Now I'm over 21 I've been getting people telling me that I should get a job trucking, and I always make excuses about why I haven't started looking. The truth is that the sheer level of absolutely nothing I can get…


I have a CDL or Commercial Driver's License, it's the license you need to be a truck driver. I got it because I was struggling to find work, but I was 19 when I got it, and you can't cross over state lines driving commercially until you're 21. Trucking in my town is the main source of income alongside the mine, so I thought it would be easy to find a job driving truck, but insurance companies wouldn't cover me until I was 21, so I got a job cleaning hotel rooms.

Eventually, I moved up to the front desk, but I still maintain my license just in case. Now I'm over 21 I've been getting people telling me that I should get a job trucking, and I always make excuses about why I haven't started looking.

The truth is that the sheer level of absolutely nothing I can get away with doing at my current job is absolutely insane. I'm on the graveyard shift, so I deal with very few customers, I run the audit, I clean up the lobby when something needs cleaned, and I set up for breakfast. That is the grand total of my work requirements. The rest of my 8hr shift I do whatever I feel like.

I write, I draw, I knit, I play videogames on my laptop, sometimes I'll even nap with the phone and the door alert thing two inches from my ear so it'll wake me up, and I'm making a livable wage doing this. I very rarely get called in on my day, or rather nights off because there's only one other graveyard person who works my two nights off.

I've had so much time I wrote an entire series worth of fanfic, 7 fics that got progressively longer, and now I'm writing my own original book. I'm learning how to do digital art and I'm designing my own ARG. I get to sleep the entire day and then spend my nights doing what I want.

Sometimes I do feel guilty, knowing how many people are struggling to find work, and my CDL is kinda going to waste, but unless I become a billionaire or something, I really don't see myself quitting anytime soon.

I haven't told anyone in my real life this because I come from a very pro work and industrious family, and I don't really have friends, but I found this sub and I thought I'd share. Sorry if this sounds like bragging, but I genuinely never thought I'd ever be so happy at a job.

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