There’s probably no job you would get.
A lot of people say “I’m not a benefits scrounger, I’d work the night shift in a petrol station if I lost my job” but the simple fact is that no petrol station owner in the land would give a job to a middle-aged ex-lorry driver if the other candidate was a 21-year old Vietnamese.
For me, if this ever ended for some reason, there is absolutely no other job I could or would get. So I’ll just have to soldier on bravely for as long as I can! 
billybigrig:
I was being seriousI could quit tomorrow on medical grounds and be a parasite but I still enjoy the job so choose to graft and manage my problems (like quite a few other decent folk on here). I’m just not the sit at home,make excuses, whine and be payed for type (unlike some less than decent bone idle [zb]s on here).
I wasn’t particularly focusing on you . . . but 
Like me, you could give it all up on Monday morning & go do something entirely different.
What would you do? Do you have something lined up just in case it all goes bosoms up?
Imagine if your medical situation worsened beyond your control this very weekend, you want to work but they stop you doing the job you choose.
What would you do?
Harry Monk:
There’s probably no job you would get.A lot of people say “I’m not a benefits scrounger, I’d work the night shift in a petrol station if I lost my job” but the simple fact is that no petrol station owner in the land would give a job to a middle-aged ex-lorry driver if the other candidate was a 21-year old Vietnamese.
For me, if this ever ended for some reason, there is absolutely no other job I could or would get. So I’ll just have to soldier on bravely for as long as I can!
Aint that the truth! Glum as it may be,that is our future.
Go to the allotment.
Would love a job but as yet not been able to get 1 hate not working
As i said to someone I would go & do anything as long as I got paid ( well within reason & was legal )
So does anyone know of any cat C jobs going if job is right can re locate
animal:
COOKiEEES!!:
sign on.
…It’d probably be a pay rise
Doubt it single £60 pre week approx ok so they will pay your rent & council tax depends they may pay your mortgage
All jokes aside, it actually very almost is a payrise! 
Typical agency class 2, I clear less than 200 a week on average (maybe slightly over on a good week).
So 60 a week plus all rent & council tax paid…
Embarrassing as this is to admit, it actually works out I’m only making about 50 or 60 quid more than that just now which I get to keep at the end of the month anyway, for working.
Currently on a short medical licence (1 year).Sent it away for renewal 2 weeks ago,will deal with it if & when it happens 
Chas:
billybigrig:
I was being seriousI could quit tomorrow on medical grounds and be a parasite but I still enjoy the job so choose to graft and manage my problems (like quite a few other decent folk on here). I’m just not the sit at home,make excuses, whine and be payed for type (unlike some less than decent bone idle [zb]s on here).
I wasn’t particularly focusing on you . . . but
Like me, you could give it all up on Monday morning & go do something entirely different.
What would you do? Do you have something lined up just in case it all goes bosoms up?
Imagine if your medical situation worsened beyond your control this very weekend, you want to work but they stop you doing the job you choose.
What would you do?
Yes on a serious note I have considered it. I have ensured we could cope financially and have other businesses and interests outside of haulage but I am under no illusion that I would miss it 
Judging by the number of posts in the Health forum it’s something that perhaps many more should consider though. The cold hard truth is that we can all get sick or have an accident, some self induced or just out of the blue. Unlike most jobs this is one that makes working while sick a challenge and with some illnesses nigh on impossible. The need for constant doctor or clinic visits for instance can render you realistically unemployable. You can’t just nip out of the office for an appointment when the office is moving and 200 miles away. 
If you are happy doing this job I truly believe you will find it difficult to settle in anything else though
Spend more time on my own work/job rather than helping friends in their business
probably cry i just spent a fortune to do my Cat C which i only passed on tuesday 
Crack open a magners toast the rest of the poor sods out there having to do it and get drunk!
billybigrig:
If you are happy doing this job I truly believe you will find it difficult to settle in anything else though
I agree with you 100%.
I was very successful in my previous career’s, but I have never been so happy as when I am behind the wheel & pretending to be my own Boss.
Chas:
billybigrig:
If you are happy doing this job I truly believe you will find it difficult to settle in anything else thoughI agree with you 100%.
I was very successful in my previous career’s, but I have never been so happy as when I am behind the wheel & pretending to be my own Boss.
LMAO amen to that 
I’d probably go work at my mates garage with them, learn how to weld and stuff
I don’t drive a lot in my present job, which makes it one of the more enjoyable part of the job.
If I was still able to do physical work, probably have to join a team doing fly away races. Which isn’t as great as it sounds believe me.
If not try and get into some sort of transport management, already look after 8 vehicles, so hopefully give me a bit of experience.
Time served fabricator/welder…also worked as a turf accountants clerk on and off since I was 19
B & Q, Asda, Maccy D, paper round, window cleaner, widget plunger, rich womans play thing…the list is endless.
i didnt read all the comments above as i’m see double (me drinking). i’ve quite driving before and worked as a manger in a small supermarket. i love it. meeting people from all walks of life. some funny and some weird. however when i met someone that was a moaner i just could handle them.i just could help myself. that lasted 3 years in which i enjoyed in a funny way. i’m back driving now and i would love to move onto a transport office or someone that loads trailers but i would also like to do the odd trip to the bean.
I’d cry, and be devastated, because believe it or not after 15 years I still love it.
probably go work in the yard /garage the thought of becoming a glassback jeremy kyle type fills me with horror 
