You’re right: it’s a great job if you want to work 80 hours per week and live in a truck. 80 x 12 = ONE GRAND, BABE!! (plus nights out money => living the dream)
If however you want to work 40 hours like a normal human being (and get paid 37.5 as anywhere I’ve worked in the last 4 years agency or FT breaks are never paid) but suppose they are so say 40 x 15(if you’re nights but more like 13-14 for days) = 520-600 p.w. or 26-30k which is a notch above a warehouse wage go to indeed and look up jobs for warehouse operatives. Even gatehouse sec. are on 10-12 p.h. with the added benefit of 4-4 for most; forklift start from 12-13 p.h.
To compare with teachers (who work like 6 months in a year or less) or police/NHS who get a ton of benefits and crazy OT rates is just different fields entirely. Also most of us truck drivers can hardly re-qualify into cops or nurses (old age etc.)
It’s nice to see people defending the low wages though justifying as ‘‘well there’s low wages elsewhere too!’’ brilliant logic…