My conflict would be between giving up my free time after work to recruiting to have more fun at work, or deal with people that aren't as good. Am I reading that right?

I see the driver at fault here.

I live in a small city of like 33k, and basically, why is it a snooze fest? Because the population is mostly 9-5 and with families or older people. There is stuff to do, but it isn't centered around the 20 somethings. That kind of thing is for the bigger cities or college towns.
I can tell ya that for someone like myself, the bar scene doesn't fit who I am today. It fit me back in my 20s, but that's because I wasn't super healthy, mentally. Something to think about

To be far, I know a lot of CDL people who are MAGA, so this would track.

All of it is capitalism, aka right-wing.

Typical. Everyone else is an asshole, but me.

What character exactly? Unhinged low energy grandpa character?

It would become the new normal and you'd still have homework.

In the USA, it would be to metric. Pretty much everywhere else in the US, NASA, military, science, it's all metric.

Based

Lmao. This dude is sharing porn on this first day of work, like that is a totally acceptable thing to do.

Linux.