I just became a city bus driver a few months ago. It’s not the most exciting job there ever was. I’m in a smaller Midwestern city, so we don’t deal with nearly the amount of bs (violent drug addicts and or mentally ill people) that bigger metro areas get. The pay is decent, not great but enough. The benefits are top notch though. Good pension, best health plan I’ve ever had.
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Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 weeks agoHow is being a school bus driver? I lost my job recently and I’ve been struggling to land another thanks to the current job market. There’s a part of me that’s hedging and looking at what else I might be able to do for work if I can’t land another IT role quickly enough
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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I absolutely love it, although the best description of the job that I’ve read is that it combines the jobs of truck driver and zoo keeper (not completely accurate - zoo keepers have bars and thick glass protecting them from the animals). The obvious downside is that it’s a major pay hit coming from the programming world like I did. I now make about 1/6 of what I did at my last job. My district pays pretty well (over $30 an hour) and provides health care, but most districts pay less with no benefits so it depends on where you are. I work less than five hours a day and I have enough time between my morning and afternoon routes to go for a bike ride and have lunch and a nap, and I’m able to take my elderly parents to their appointments and such. It really doesn’t feel like work and it’s a good feeling to know what I’m doing is actually of some benefit to humanity - unlike programming, where I think that 95% of what I did never got used by anybody.