Transit – Introduction

I was a bus driver in college.  I started in September of 2003 at the beginning of my 4th year in Amherst and, at the time, the decision to work there was both the best and worst decisions I had ever made and is probably the decision most responsible for me being where I am today.  Transit was the first time I had made over $8/hour and, at 8.80/hour + overtime, it gave me the ability to bring home what was, for a college student, a pretty decent pay check.  I was living off campus and that paycheck was enticing.  In addition I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with my life; I didn’t have any direction.  Transit was able to give me direction, albeit in the wrong direction at first.  It, along with the people who worked there, was able to be my teacher, mentor, father, priest, savior, entertainment, disciplinarian, and about anything else you can think of all rolled into one.

Over the next few days I’ll explain what I mean by the best, worst, and most responsible.  To give each of these adequate time they’ll ge ttheir own posts and to give me time to write them I’ll spread them over a numebr of days.

And as always thus far: Without this, I wold not be the man I am today.