You got in a couple practice runs of the routes but that was it, then you were on your own. I definitely made a number of mistakes. First real paying job I ever had and it was stressful as heck 😅
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Here’s where my ADHD brain just instantly took me: What was it like for school bus drivers, having to remember routes before the maps/GPS technologies of today? (especially for disabled children who need to be dropped off at home with visual confirmation—more complex routes)
That’s a wild first paying job lol. Mine was making smoothies after Jamba Juice inside a Whole Foods and I got fired after 1 week (I was a mischievous teenager) lol
hahaha. I went for the highest paying campus job, definitely bit off more than I could chew. I hope you got some free smoothies out of your first job! gotta be a must-have perk :)
Definitely free smoothies =) The job I took when I got to university was A/V tech for all various campus events and big on-campus concerts. I got to set up the stage, do sound checks, and lights for some pretty rad bands and rappers back in those years. Feels like a lifetime ago!
amazing! we also have some overlap there… I got to do some lighting and stage work on campus. It was for plays for the theater students, so definitely not as cool nor as big of a set up as your experience! still super fun :)
Fun fact! for a very short time I had a commercial driver’s license and drove school buses around and off campus. No smartphones yet. First few routes were super rough, pure memorization of all the street names and turns, had to memorize all the stops too
Olivia! No way! I didn’t expect anyone to have thoughts, let alone real world experience, on this fleeting thought that somehow made its way through my brain. So cool (and sounds hard)! Thanks for sharing =)