Help, it seems my 35 year old wife is in MLC #12

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I spent an hour with W this morning while D6 was at dance class.

It was pretty good. It seems that the awkwardness that existed months ago is gone. We talked about a bunch of different topics such as friends, jobs, houses, the kids, school, etc. But nothing R related. It was friendly and she bought me a hot chocolate.

She has got it in her head that she wants to be a truck driver. She was telling me how she spent a bunch of time researching it this week.

This baffles me a little. I don't want to knock anyone profession but until 2 weeks ago, she had a senior job in the insurance industry. She would go to golf tournaments & Industry confrences. In the last year she has gone to meetings in the US, England, and Germany. Granted her career put a lot of stress on her but it seems odd to me that she would want to move from that career to a job driving a truck.

Strangely, she was telling me that she went to talk to a truck driving school. She told me that while she was telling the woman she was talking to that she worked in the insurance industry, the owner overheard her and told her that she worked in the insurance industry at one time. W took this as validation for her driving a truck but failed to see that this woman didn't drive a truck, she was the owner of the school. Beyond this, this truck driving school came off as being really white trash when they told her that they could get her a job because she was white and could speak english. Again W took this to be an encouraging thing.

They also told my W that they could get her a job because she is a woman and equal opportunity laws say that companies have to hire women. W also thought this was a good thing. The W I know would have never thought that this was a good thing. Being hired because she was a woman rather than on her own merit would never have appealed to her.

I left her really shaking my head thinking about what she is thinking of doing. Is this a stress thing or a depression thing? Is it a reaction to not being happy? Or, is it just desparation because there isn't anyone hiring in her field right now?

I think there is more going on here than simply wanting to become a truck driver. I would appreciate any thoughts anyone has on this.