Still doing the Pepsi gig. Pepsi bought out the independent bottlers I worked for and I now work directly for Pepsi. Few more bucks an hour, more hours than you would ever want and you work like a freaking slave. 3 day weekends are gone, and I now work weekends as well. I average about 11 tons of stuff a day now. This is all handled by hand three times by the end of the day. Pallet to dolly, dolly to staging area, staging area to back stock/shelves/wherever. I'm in damn good physical shape now, though.. I think I could run a marathon and tackle a house off of its foundation at the end.
And yes, that is the Dave Ramsey thing. ^^^ Good stuff. Some people call him crazy, but he got me out of the crapper. Its all common sense and credit hate. You'd be amazed at how much money you have if you pay cash for everything. Its all cheaper up front and you have no interest, no payments, no leash, no master to serve. Took a few years but I went from i think it was 23 credit cards to 0. 2 car payments and a bike payment to 0. I don't have to wait for my pay check to arrive to make the bills... I just have the money. Its a completely different life financially. No, I don't eat out often.. I don't drive a brand new car.. but I don't owe anyone any money except for the house, which I am hammering on. Its a good feeling. I would very highly recommend his financial peace university course to anyone looking to take control of their finances. Its not an instant win, it isn't a magical fix, its just hard work and common sense. The way it should be.