This year, Schneider National is hiring 2500 drivers. It's to accommodate this provider of trucking, logistics, and intermodal services manpower for its growing freight base. The company will be recruiting in the West, Southwest, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast. The pay is good. An acquaintance of mine who was forced out of his IT position is driving a school bus, for now.
Once unthinkable, blue-collar jobs and temporary assignments provide a way to make a living while we figure out what's next. In 2003 until spring of 2004, I worked at blue-collar jobs. At all I was noticed for my focus, energy, and initiative. One company suggested I contact the marketing department in headquarters. I didn't because my due diligence showed that it was a target for a hostile merger. The ultimate payoff was that my confidence surged. I went on to start up another boutique.
On the road, lawyers could grasp directly what the company, trucking trade associations and unions, and regulators might not. There's also a book or documentary in the experience. Here is my ebook, which has had more than a million downloads, on joining the working class Download Geezerguts.
I don't see this strategy working. I think employers will be hesitant to hire lawyers and others with professional degrees because they fear they'll jump ship once the economy rebounds.
Posted by: Matt | February 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM