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Dear Information Professional #2

I currently drive a school bus for the public school system. I have a degree in IT, plus

decades of experience. I have applied for different IT jobs in the system, but all of them want me

to give up driving a school bus. I enjoy driving a school bus and getting to know the students.

Why can’t I do both?

Happy as a Driver

Dean Happy,

I am glad that you enjoy driving a school bus and wish you the best of luck in future

endeavors. If your school district is like most others, the bus driver is the lowest persons in the

system. It is very simple and also very difficult to explain at the same time. Bus drivers are on a

completely different contract than the rest of the district, in most cases. In most districts, bus

drivers are on a contract where twenty hours is full time. Schools do this in order to provide

benefits for the bus drivers. And most bus drivers only work 4 hours a day. And anything

between 8AM and 2PM is extra duty and in some case would run into overtime. So if you were

to another job in the district, you would make over time every week and the schools don’t want

that. You could possibly have two contracts with the district; One would allow you to continue to