In 1979, the company where I worked transferred me 2,000 miles to the city I’m living in now. On the “Big Moving Day”, I spoke with the driver (who owned his own rig), and found out he made $81,000 the previous year–three times what I was making! It was an eye opener for me on how well an o/o could do. He was fast, too. I had to fly in order to be at our new house when he arrived with our furniture. Well, the other side of that gilded coin is the risk taken by an o/o. I got to Ohio as scheduled, but he was a couple days late because he broke down on the way.
These days, I hear more tales of woe than easy living and I think about that driver who pushed himself so hard and always worked to have “just a little more.” I wonder what it cost him, especially with so many o/o’s struggling to make ends meet in our current economy. We can spend all our lives reaching for the gold ring and in the end, find it is made of brass. What are you reaching for? Want to talk about it? Contact us. Comment here.
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