[reactordev]

I’ve been there. I lost my marriage, my house, my money, my parents, my job, everything. Literally $100k in the hole with $0 in the bank.

Sounds like you know how to survive, which is perfect… here’s what you do. Ditch uber/lyft and get your CDL. They’ll pay you and train you and give you a job. Plus, you get a nice sleeper truck to sleep in that’s more spacious than your car. (If you have the cash, an RV works instead)

Take the income you make and pay off all your debts using the snowball method. If you don’t have debts, use that money for classes/school/training to get back into the field you want to be in. 6 months to a year and you’re back on your feet, apartment, furniture, money in your pocket, a future to look forward to.

Stay strong.

[bryanlarsen]

From what I hear many of the commercial driver's license training & job programs are scams of the indentured servitude type. You owe them for the training and they keep on adding on penalties and fees so you don't get out from the debt. I'm sure there are some good ones out there, just be careful.

[ics]

It depends, the programs offered by companies are definitely a risk and many of the independent schools are predatory in their own ways. Many states and cities may have their own free or low cost programs to get into the industry for low income folks. However the bigger hurdle will be the behavioral health history. Such history may be disqualifying for those programs; even more likely if you are taking medication; more if your medications are a banned substance. If you're not currently on medication but have any medical record of being prescribed or diagnosed with a mental health issue at any point then be prepared for a great deal of pain. Then begins the kafkaesque ordeal of finding medical practitioners who will work with you through the process instead of just tossing the hot-liability-potato. (Source: me, a recent CDL permit holder who happened to experience some burnout in the past and not simply ignore it.)

[reactordev]

Many require a contract of a year to reimburse training costs. You can leave before then by just paying the difference. Many who claim its servitude aren’t saving their earnings and can’t hold a job longer than a year. In the end though, read the contract. Never sign anything you can’t commit to.

[dvsfish]

I feel like this would be great advice if "CDL" was unambiguously googleable. This might be regional but I have no idea what this is meant to mean.

[Nezteb]

Commercial Driver's License. Other countries might have their own terms for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_driver%27s_license

[qgin]

Commercial Drivers License

[kerkeslager]

Second result for me is "commercial driver's license" on both Kagi and Google.

[yieldcrv]

There is no shared reality on those search engines and on google there hasnt been for almost a decade

[kerkeslager]

Huh?

Kagi was founded in 2018, and I just gave you an example of a shared reality between those two search engines. For your information, the first result of both searches was the same as well.

Obviously given I'm paying for Kagi I believe it has some value over Google, but there's still a pretty significant core of searches that it doesn't really matter which engine you're using.

[dvsfish]

I think the point made there was that the results you see will differ based on where you are in the world, on both search engines. Admittedly I haven't used Kagi so I'm not sure this is the case, but I believe that was the point.

Thanks to all who responded to the post though. I can see this answer in my results, just further down the list than most people are suggesting due to whatever targeting I'm receiving.

[hluska]

Try:

“Define:CDL”

Where I’m from at least, commercial drivers license fills the first two pages.

[ryuker16]

It's truck driver certification.