If you're looking for a job, you might try trucking. There's a current shortage of truck drivers in the United States.
A four-week course could put you back in business, but some seasoned semi-truck drivers said it's not the job for everyone.
Since he was 18 years old, Max DeVilbiss has been climbing into big rigs.
"It kind of gets in your blood, it got in my blood way early," DeVilbiss said.
But he said that blood has got to be thick.
"It's not for everybody, you gotta be a select bunch, it's pretty tough," he said.
It's a tough job, but it's also one plenty of unemployed workers are signing up to do.
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"There are far more people seemingly coming into this out of desperation perhaps," Austin Community College's truck driver training course recruiter, Rick Hidalgo, said.
He said the classes are filling up. According to Hidalgo, the most students they had in a class last year was 15 and currently there are 21 working on getting certified.
According to the American Trucking Association, it expects a shortage of 111,000 drivers by 2014.
"The demand has always been there, it hasn't gone away," Hidalgo said.
It's a demand many unemployed are in desperate need of, and in four weeks, for about $4000, you could basically be back in business.
"$35,000 to $38,000 for the first year as an on-the-road truck driver," Hidalgo said.
But for experienced drivers like DeVilbiss, he said he hopes the newer drivers can catch on quick because lately he's been a little nervous.
"It's kind of a comedy hour but I guess they all gotta learn sometime," DeVilbiss said.
Becoming a truck driver requires a Class A commercial driver's license. The Austin Community College course is offered every three weeks.
