Well as it says £27k for a shunt to Watford every night, or what I’m use to and love, tramping away but out on euro again and money not so clever as in hours compared.
Bit of a drop from my last job in wages but there ain’t a lot out there.
No I’m not ■■■■ stirring or any other thing putting this up but this is what I have to decide and by next week and to be fair it’s doing my head in.
I love having my own motor, bit of a clean freak and on the night job ill be jumping into whatever crap the next man left, the other, nice motor and away for 3-4 weeks at a time, if I do the euro I’ve promised the wife ill do it for a year tops as it ain’t fair on her, we have no kids and she has her own business so that keeps her busy but as I know from doing this before it kills relationship.
Do I do what I have no love for or do what I love?
(Awake again 3rd night running, few drinks in me so sorry for rambling on)
The Watford job will probably bore you to death but steady work home every day.
I’d have said go for euro if you were home every week or so but not 4 weeks. Just too long if you want to keep the missus and whats the point of doing all that work if you’re not at home to enjoy the benefits of the money?
If your earning the same money either way I’d say come home every day and see the wife …
Work to live don’t live to work…
No one else can tell you. Logically it’s the shunting gig but if you hate it you will drive yourself mad
I left a job earning good money home every night new truck to come to Canada earning about the same for ■■■■■■■■■ more hours and away but it was an itch I had to scratch.
If she’s the one though think long and hard is a job worth more than her.
SYE-1:
Work to live don’t live to work…
+1
Know the feeling fella 
I gave up the Euro work for a decent paying ( read same money/no time away ) to spend more time at home etc…and to be fair the job was OK , but bored the beJeeezuz outa me 
Sat down with SWMBO and we both decided that me being away worked out better for all concerned , i loved the job , and she preffered me happy , not a miserable git every weekend cos i got to hate the mundane day in day out job 
!
Well that what she told me anyway
The phrase “Work to live don’t live to work”. 
It depends how you look at it in your predicament.
Home every night in a job you are bored out of your skull with. Is that living?
Or away for a few weeks in a job you love. Is that working?
I’d go for the European work.
Do you go with your head or your heart, I went with my head and now ill never listen to it agen
Hope that helps
Contraflow:
SYE-1:
Work to live don’t live to work…+1
+2
6 hours a night, (Or potentially 15 hours a day for the same money.) a social life, time with the loved one, etc etc.
Mmmmmm…Let me think about that.
So you have to maybe drive the shed, but for 6 hours, I think I could/would put up with that.
Ken.
No brainer this one.
After a short while the good weather will be here, you will have time to enjoy life and you’ll wonder why the hell you didn’t do it years ago.
I know where you’re coming from mate and I think I would have the same question as you. But in a year when you come off euro again, the 6 hour a night 27k a year job probably won’t be available and you’ll be back to square one.
the choice has got to be the job that is going to make you the happiest akaday,you would be happier doing a job you enjoy as opposed to been unhappy until the day you retire,we spend most of our lives at work and most of us will be too knackered to anything else when we retire so we have got to find a way of spending our working lives an enjoyable time…i also think from your post that you would possibly regret not going euro if you never went for it,there are a few things in life i wish i had gone for and never did and they still haunt me. whatever your decision is,good luck.
It depends what you prefer.
If you’d rather be in the wagon - then Euro work.
If you’d rather spend time with the family, missus, mates down the pub, then take the shunting to Watford.
Personally, if I had the choice of 6 hours shunt for that money, or weeks on end stuck in a lorry, I would take the shunt every time. Driving lorries isn’t glamorous or romantic ‘seeing Europe’. The reality is you’re stuck in some other bloke’s truck for weeks on end, doing as you are told and going where you are told, minding it on your ‘days off’ often with no real idea when you will be back or for how long.
Ultimately only you can decide which is most important for your own sanity!
Good luck with whatever you decide! 
just read your post again, no kids and the missuss with her own money and business, so you dont have any real ties,go for the job your going to enjoy…
good luck again…
Can your mrs run her business from your truck if she goes with you ?
ROG:
Can your mrs run her business from your truck if she goes with you ?
If she can, you’re much more likely to stay together than if you aren’t around much I would say.
Personally, I gave up a good job that I loved… Own motor, took it home, did euro wrk, wide loads, all sorts every week was different! Gave it up 2 do some trunking work cause I thought I’d have a social life, c the kids blah blah… But after 2 months it drove me mad, it made miserable cause I dreaded going 2 work! It actually made home life worse cause I was always happy before and looked forward 2 the time off I had. Reality was that having loads of time off just ment sitting watching tele in the eve, and the odd pub lunch! So bk down the road I am, not tramping but looking 2 get bk in 2 it as the reality was I was happyier mega trucking than doing the same shizzle every night!
May just be me…
Only you can decide though, and if she’s the ‘one’ and feels the same about you then she’ll stand by ya woteva ya do!
4 weeks is along time mind…
jarvo:
Personally, I gave up a good job that I loved… Own motor, took it home, did euro wrk, wide loads, all sorts every week was different! Gave it up 2 do some trunking work cause I thought I’d have a social life, c the kids blah blah… But after 2 months it drove me mad, it made miserable cause I dreaded going 2 work! It actually made home life worse cause I was always happy before and looked forward 2 the time off I had. Reality was that having loads of time off just ment sitting watching tele in the eve, and the odd pub lunch! So bk down the road I am, not tramping but looking 2 get bk in 2 it as the reality was I was happyier mega trucking than doing the same shizzle every night!May just be me…
Only you can decide though, and if she’s the ‘one’ and feels the same about you then she’ll stand by ya woteva ya do!
4 weeks is along time mind…
You’re right of course re being boring on a trunk (though I quite like trunking). But, unless your other half sees it exactly as you do, (and is happy to be on their own for up to four weeks at a time) they will get fed up of the tramping a long time before you do.
Tramping around Europe is much more interesting for the driver certainly, but is it more interesting for the partner stuck at home? 
The watford job will save your marriage
Wife or a truck its your call
Around the year 2000 I spoke to a long distance haulier in Brum and he said that the only drivers he would take on were either single with no ties or had partners who would go with them because he said that most left within 6 months due to family issues