School Bus Driving for Income

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ILLUSTRATION: MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAFF
School bus driving turned out to be a good and reasonably profitable part time job.

At the end of summer before last, when we were in the midst of arranging our lives around an old farmhouse on a small patch of land in the country, it became apparent that the money we had put away wasn’t going to last us through the winter. Drastic action was called for: One or both of us had to go to work.

What an upsetting development! Full-time jobs would have destroyed the life we had planned on our little Florida homestead, but part-time work just didn’t pay enough. We also rejected several small home-business ideas–raising worms, addressing envelopes, reading palms–and then noticed a recurring ad in our local newspaper: “Wanted: School bus drivers, men and women, we train you.”

That’s how it all began.

  • Published on Sep 1, 1974
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