I just got my CDL license in October and am dringing for First Student, a school bus service. I take this job (as I have every one I have ever had) VERY seriously. I would have to be on death's door to call in and not have a driver available for a bus run to take thses kids to school. We have off all school holidays and all summmer, so we don't get "vacations" anyway, but jeez, take the time to do your personal stuff when it's "downtime" for your school kids. And I had a cold and flu from the very first day I stepped on the bus until last week and didn't miss any time at all, yet EVERY day, we have three or four drivers and three or four aides call in sick or "personal problems", or worse, they just don't show up or call in. Makes the day really interesting for the rest of us, let me tell you. And I just don't understand that mentality at all. Maybe we are just cut from a different cloth, huh???