ANSWER: Drove a school bus as a temporary thing from 2017-2021.

1.	⁠Nobody can pass a piss test. The number of people we had come in to become a driver and flunk their drug test was unbelievable. One dude reeked of pot during his interview, but they humored him and had him go test anyway.
2.	⁠People’s kids are fucking awful and it’s hard as hell to get them banned from the bus unless they commit like an actual crime. School needs them there on count day!
3.	⁠Traffic is worse than ever and other drivers are entitled assholes who will bully even school busses in traffic. It was bad before but got WAY worse post-pandemic, people tailgating, cutting you off, running your reds, etc. Stressful as hell.
4.	⁠Doesn’t pay well enough for the amount of stress and the occasional on-call nature. School just went into lockdown because someone dropped a book in the hallways? Buses, go standby in the Kroger parking lot while cops spend the next hour clearing the building, sorry about your doctors appointment and stuff.
5.	⁠People can barely drive cars anymore, you expect them to drive a bus?
6.	⁠Getting screamed at by parents for being 5 minutes late because there’s 3” of snow on the ground and traffic is moving at a snail’s pace gets old REALLY fast
7.	⁠Being late to school every day because ONE parent never has their fucking kid ready to go gets old as well
8.	⁠You get a decent look into the home lives of children and it’s heartbreaking. Shit wears on you after a while.
9.	⁠There’s a tipping point when you’re short staffed, when remaining drivers have to start pulling double duty, extending runs and so on, burnout accelerates exponentially and you see a lot more early retirements or people, like me, who were just doing it as a temporary gig to get out of the house, decide it isn’t worth it anymore and quit.

I loved doing it for a while and would still do it if it weren’t more trouble than it’s worth.