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I retired 6 years ago at 53. I got bored and got bamboozled into driving a school bus - 30 hour work week and great benefits last year. It has worked out to where I was working 45 hours a week this year but I have great high school and middle school students. My manager likes my work ethic and gives me extra tasks. The elementary students are little $h!ts. Since the Kung Flu hit to maintain Title 1 free lunches for the county I am delivering free lunches to the one school in my district that qualifies for free lunch. It takes about 2 hours but the board office wants to ensure all bus drivers return next year instead of opting to drive a dump truck so they are paying us 35 hour a week while we are working 2 hours a day for 5 days a week. I am back to what I was making per hour when I retired, too bad I am only working 10 hours a week.
What really makes it worth it is that I was in my local grocery store last week when one of my seniors approached me and told me she had been accepted at Purdue but she was going to the University of Georgia instead and she was glad she was able to tell me where she was going to college. She told me my pep talks and encouragement to excel in school was additional motivation in school for her senior year. The pay is crap but the emotional payback is priceless.
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Tony
NE ATL
'04 XLT regular cab 3.slo stepside
Semi retirement
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