The Assignment:

Name: Mikaela B-M
(First Name and Last Initial)
Advisory #: 10

 

Name of your host: Mariana Montagne Relationship to you: Mom

The Interview: (ask your host these questions)

1. What is your job title? Transit Operator.

2. What is your job description?
Driving passengers where they need to go. Being on time to work, picking up, dropping off passengers on time so they can get to their destinations at the right time.

3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?

Transporting passengers safely to their destination.

4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:

a) training? You need a class for drivers license for commercial vehicles.

b) education? You need a six-week class room training on rules, regulations and safety, and road training.

c) experience? You need to have a clean safe driving record. And has been working there for 10 years.

d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Its important to have a friendly and helpful personality.

5. What are some of the things you like about the job? That you get to meet and talk to lots of different people from all backgrounds.

6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job? Having to get to wake up at 3 in the morning and there’s a lot of physical and verbal abuse from unstable and angry passengers.

7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so?

Adding new routs to new developments in different cities and extending the sky train and the west coast express to connect more cities together.

Other question (s):

 

Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) I would like this job because I like road trips and usually the routs are 1 hour.
b) You can have a flexible schedule like one that you like and that is a good time for when you leave your house and come home from work.
c) There are great health benefits, like if your really sick you still get paid, not as much as you would get paid s if you actually worked.

2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) If you choose the early shift you must wake up early.
b) You must clean the bus after the shift and add fuel and it would be dangerous if you had to drive all day because when your exposed to traffic.
c) If you take the late shift, then you could get drunk people on the bus.

3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?
No, it’s not my job because it would be very scary if I accidentally hit something and to get strange (drunk) people on the bus because then you don’t know really what do to.  And I feel like I would not be that good at driving a large vehicle.

4. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?).
It would benefit me because I kind of know how working would be like because you must concentrate all the time, like I got the idea of how going to work would be, waking up early if I must and being more responsible and independent.

 

1. The first picture of the bus was a picture of the bus my mom was driving in the early morning before she left the station.
2. The second picture is a note that a child gave to my mom because my mom used to drive the child and her mom around all the time, so she gave her that note!
3. The third picture is a sign that is just on the outside of a window for people to read about passenger safety!