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One of my friends who was working as a software developer in Canada recently left his job and started driving a truck. He made friends with a punjabi truck driver and went with him on one of his trips. He liked it so much that he left his software job. He says that trucking is a much better job as you can listen to Gurbani kirtan while driving and you can also see the countryside.

Is trucking a better job than software for a person wanting a spiritual lifestyle?????

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My father has driven a truck and he listened to at least 15 hours of gurbani every single day. Even to this day he drives and he listens to gurbani and Kirtan on his trips. The job with the less hassle is the best for bhagti. In my opinion trucking is one of the jobs with not much hassle compared to software or doctor or lawyer etc. The mind has to be too focused on jobs like software, doctor, lawyer etc. As a trucker all you have to do is drive and listen to bani. A lot of time trucking makes more money than anything like software etc.

I vouch for trucking and I wouldn't mind if I become a trucker as well.

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Sikhs have watered down what kirt means. Its not kirt karo but DHARM di kirt karo. Nothing is higher than doing simran (reading, singing, listening, and contemplating over Gurbani).

This times ten!!! All the time a person spends on learning to become a doctor or lawyer they could use that time for doing bhagti. Only bhagti is gonna save you in this world and in the next. Work a simple job which doesn't have the pressure of the world such as if a person is a lawyer there mindset is on defending their client. While he is defending the client god does not come into mind cause the brain is doing something else. I'm not saying somebody can't do bhagti with a job like doctor or lawyer but it is 20 times harder than being a trucker. It also shows how much is a person content in life. There are people who work at a fast food restaurant and are content and then there are doctors who need the whole world and are content with nothing.
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Let's see.

Earnings as a trucker after 10 years experience = $50,000 and a majority of beer drinking Sangat to aid his spiritual development

Earnings as a software engineer after 10years experience = $200,000

A trucker cannot live off of 50,000 a year. There is no point whatsoever. Probably a driver makes 50 grand but an owner operator with his own truck etc make over 150,000 a year. I speak from personal experience. Also the sangat is dependant on the person. If a person likes beer then he will have beer drinking sangat but if he is more bhagti oriented then that person does not talk much with the bad sangat. My father is a trucker and makes more than 200,000 a year and listens to 15 hours of gurbani a day. Which is better now a software engineer who has to dedicate his mind to his field or a trucker who is just listening to gurbani?

If someone can be a doctor and still merge in simran. All the power to them. The part i objected to in your pist was you saying half of the work is done.... hence i stressed its dharm di kirt karo.

If somebody can do bhagti while being a doctor that's great but there are a few only who could do that.
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