I'm not necessarily unhappy - just bored. It's too easy. Think of something you do well - how many times can you do it over and over before you're bored with it? (professionally)
There's zero challenge. Even BS made up challenges. I'm good at it, it pays the bills but doesn't stretch the mind. Excel probably makes more people blind than anything. I've been in transportation my whole life. I was on the road with my uncle or grandfather, unloading trucks when I was 7. I've been a lumper, driver, shipping and receiving clerk, service writer, M&R specialist, intermodal specialist etc.
Taking the welding/machining classes - I hope to stretch the mind some. Be forced to figure things out that I haven't had to in the past. Whatever I've put my mind to - even things requiring physical talent - I've achieved. This is simply one more thing on that list. If I can drive an 18 speed, eat a burger and talk on the CB at the same time - I can learn other things requiring physical dexterity. That's not nearly as difficult as learning proper buoyancy control where you can hover 18 inches off the bottom of a lake, rise over an object and then back to those 18 inches without using your hands - only inhale/exhale.
I am always bored - sorry but what others find difficult, I don't.
Hoping that the mental gymnastics of welding/fab or machining would provide that - even if it's a short while and quite honestly, the classes are literally free for me.
I'm not quitting my job for this - just simply stating that burning the rest of my GI benefits on a tech degree/cert for cooking (as an example) makes little sense as there's zero chance I could/would fall back on it.
Skills - any skills, are always useful and I was here asking which of these 2 would others see as the most useful.
If forced - I'd probably go back to driving truck under my own authority before anything else.
I do have a huge broad base of life experience as everything I've ever studied or learned was OJT or done outside of work. I've never really been a full time student with nothing else to do. Always at night.
Was simply asking other's opinions on the 2 skills and what they saw/thought of them as full time work because like anything - it's fun for 45 minutes at a crack. A 15 hour day is completely different. Plan on the 15 hour day, be enthralled when it's not.
