I found that hauling my loaded horse trailer & truck with stuff from my friend's storage unit, I would have really LOVED to have had a stick shift. I was hauling the things up into the mountains & I was constantly having to drop the automatic down into 1st & maybe if lucky 2nd to make the pull. There were times even in automatic that my truck would roll backward on the slope & I didn't have the clutch to help me out with it. Always wanted to learn how to drive an 18 wheeler with all their gears. Thought it would be interesting.....even though I wouldn't have wanted it for a full time job, it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to learn how to drive it.....just like I would have loved to learn how to drive a race car on a race track.....LOL....there are times I practiced on the open road anyway.