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Jana Faulk, 51: long-haul truck driver.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jana Faulk, 51: long-haul truck driver.(The Working Life: STORIES FROM THE 9 TO 5)

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Faulk was born In Missouri and raised in Corpus Christi. Before becoming a truck driver with her husband, Tony, she lived in the West Texas town of Terlingua (population: 267), where she worked as a horseback wilderness guide and owned a popular, though now defunct, liquor store. Tony was a bartender and worked as a guide for a local river company.

My husband, Tony, and I ran away from home last year and became truck drivers. We've never been back. We hit our early fifties, and we realized that we had zero retirement savings. None. So we committed to working really hard for the next ten years so that we could retire when we hit sixty. Most people work hard when they're young, and then they slow down. But Tony and I ate dessert first. Now we're having to eat the rest of the meal.

I was just a rolling stone until I moved to the Big Bend area twenty years ago and had a kid. It was a very laid-back, quasihippie lifestyle. I lived in a straw-bale house that my family and...

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