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Haven't posted here in a while, so let me remedy that.
So things are a little mixed at the moment. I'm still working my school bus job and it's not really making me a lot of money. So to help with that, I decided to do something I've never done before in my life...get a second job. I figured since I had a Class B CDL that I would put it to use, so I started looking around a charter bus companies. Turns out that they're always looking for drivers as well, so I applied to a few. One eventually got back to me back in July, Huskey Trailways in Festus, MO (I know, working back in Missouri). They brought me in for an interview, I did well, and they brought me on board. For the first few weeks I was with them, I did nothing but training on their motorcoaches. I think I did well on actually driving them (really it's no big deal...just a lot of controls I have to get used to), but I never did get a solo run on them fast enough like I wanted to. On my first on-the-job training, which took me to Columbia, MO late one night, I got a taste of what to expect on a job. Then immediately after that, I was called in for my first solo run for Huskey...er, not in a motorcoach, but in one of their school bus. Yeah, I didn't know they actually used their school buses on trips, and my first run for them was to take a church youth group to a laser tag arena in Belleville. That went well enough, so they decided for now to just have me do school bus runs, which is what I'm doing now. The second run I did was not very successful. I ended up leaving on time but didn't make it to my destination on time so I ended up losing that deal. However, the last two runs were more successful. Last Saturday I took a local high school swim team to a big swim meet at Mizzou (that's University of Missouri-Columbia to anyone outside of the Missouri-Kansas-Illinois-Iowa area) in Columbia, MO. That day I got to spend the entire day at the Columbia Mall (which is the only mall I know of in existence that has a Target connected to it). And just yesterday I took another local high school swim team to Cape Girardeau to another big swim meet, only this time I was just hanging out at the swim meet site (they provided food and such for us).
It's not my idea of traveling, but it's paying more than my daily school bus driving job, which is paying me next to nothing. Seriously there are other school bus companies that pay their drivers more than what I'm getting...I just so happen to sign on with the worst terminal in the area, but that's not to say I can't transfer to another terminal, which I plan to do once I move. Yes, I'm going to be moving from my old apartment that I've been living in for two years into...get this...a mobile home in a new city (not too terribly far from where I'm at now). Now before you go saying anything, NO, I have no problem living in a mobile home community. I've known people that live in these places, and they're actually functioning people of society. Mobile home parks are just places to live. Mobile homes, themselves, are just cheaper houses to be perfectly honest. There is nothing wrong with living in them, or most of the people that live in them. So I'll be fine living there. Anyway, I don't know when I'll be moving, but I will more than likely let people know once I've settled in.
So yeah, things are a little mixed right now, but I'm not going to let it keep me down. I've gotten through worse than this, and I can certainly get through this. I'm a fighter, and I'll keep on fighting, no matter the cost.
So things are a little mixed at the moment. I'm still working my school bus job and it's not really making me a lot of money. So to help with that, I decided to do something I've never done before in my life...get a second job. I figured since I had a Class B CDL that I would put it to use, so I started looking around a charter bus companies. Turns out that they're always looking for drivers as well, so I applied to a few. One eventually got back to me back in July, Huskey Trailways in Festus, MO (I know, working back in Missouri). They brought me in for an interview, I did well, and they brought me on board. For the first few weeks I was with them, I did nothing but training on their motorcoaches. I think I did well on actually driving them (really it's no big deal...just a lot of controls I have to get used to), but I never did get a solo run on them fast enough like I wanted to. On my first on-the-job training, which took me to Columbia, MO late one night, I got a taste of what to expect on a job. Then immediately after that, I was called in for my first solo run for Huskey...er, not in a motorcoach, but in one of their school bus. Yeah, I didn't know they actually used their school buses on trips, and my first run for them was to take a church youth group to a laser tag arena in Belleville. That went well enough, so they decided for now to just have me do school bus runs, which is what I'm doing now. The second run I did was not very successful. I ended up leaving on time but didn't make it to my destination on time so I ended up losing that deal. However, the last two runs were more successful. Last Saturday I took a local high school swim team to a big swim meet at Mizzou (that's University of Missouri-Columbia to anyone outside of the Missouri-Kansas-Illinois-Iowa area) in Columbia, MO. That day I got to spend the entire day at the Columbia Mall (which is the only mall I know of in existence that has a Target connected to it). And just yesterday I took another local high school swim team to Cape Girardeau to another big swim meet, only this time I was just hanging out at the swim meet site (they provided food and such for us).
It's not my idea of traveling, but it's paying more than my daily school bus driving job, which is paying me next to nothing. Seriously there are other school bus companies that pay their drivers more than what I'm getting...I just so happen to sign on with the worst terminal in the area, but that's not to say I can't transfer to another terminal, which I plan to do once I move. Yes, I'm going to be moving from my old apartment that I've been living in for two years into...get this...a mobile home in a new city (not too terribly far from where I'm at now). Now before you go saying anything, NO, I have no problem living in a mobile home community. I've known people that live in these places, and they're actually functioning people of society. Mobile home parks are just places to live. Mobile homes, themselves, are just cheaper houses to be perfectly honest. There is nothing wrong with living in them, or most of the people that live in them. So I'll be fine living there. Anyway, I don't know when I'll be moving, but I will more than likely let people know once I've settled in.
So yeah, things are a little mixed right now, but I'm not going to let it keep me down. I've gotten through worse than this, and I can certainly get through this. I'm a fighter, and I'll keep on fighting, no matter the cost.