Part time or over the road?

[kilroyfirelizrd]

As of late I've been having problems keeping up with my bills. Part of this is due to rising expenses related to winter weather such as heating costs, part of it is Sallie Mae being dicks and bumping my monthly bill up $50, and part of it is work cutting my hours a little at a time. I was working 48 hours, then they cut my hours to 45, and now

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[kilroyfirelizrd]

Like Startide said, truck drivers are expected to run around 70 hours a week. I think legally one can work 84 hours in a 7 day period (14 hour days, with 10 hour breaks and a full 34 hours off immediately after the fifth 14 hour period), but that is extremely rare.

Sallie Mae may do housing I suppose? But they're mostly known as a student loan company. Though to be honest it's more of a student loan shark company :P Spend thousands of dollars going to a school where you may or may not get a job in the field you studied for, all while paying the price of a small mortgage that does not qualify for a statute of limitations clause (at least around here in Wisconsin, if you "neglect" to pay a bill for 2 years without the company taking action before that 2 year period is up, the bill is forgiven. This does not apply to government loans apparently)

Thankfully my rent will only go up at the end of my year-long contract, and even then at the end of that year I have the option of locking in the rate at the beginning of the new contract for another year.