Well… not so much her job, just her first week from *my* perspective… and my opinion is that 5:30 a.m. is not a healthy time for *anyone* to get up. Time was when I used to roll *into* bed at that time. Times change. 🙂
Actually, she’s not done too badly so far. Out of bed, tarted up and out in time for the 6:15 a.m. to the QVB, bag in hand and a smile on her face. But I have to admit I don’t know how she’s doing it.
This morning for example the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. and I have no idea why. We fell about for a few minutes until we realised it was still dark outside and went back to sleep… only to wake at 5:40 a.m. instead… and those 10 mins make a difference! A sudden flurry of activity led to us both zooming out of the house… just in time to see a bus passing on the opposite side of the park.
Agghhh… panic… ’til she realises that was the *early* bus. We wander across to the bus stop… where she realises she’s forgotten to pick up her phone. Mine is no use to her… none of her numbers stored… so she runs back across the park, grabs the phone and runs back. Around the corner comes the right bus.. and she’s away… again with a smile on her face. The trip takes an hour and a half so she’ll get a chance to sleep a bit… maybe.
Still, all in all that wasn’t a bad effort bearing in mind going to bed later than intended, getting up and hour early, and then oversleeping.
There are days I almost long for the the sort of service you get in London. Tube trains every few minutes, buses so think on the ground you’d almost believe they were breeding. But of course in Sydney you *do* get a lot of public transport, out here in the sticks things aren’t so grand. Out here the buses run empty as often as not and are kept going by government subsidy… and even then they run on a shoestring.
No idea what the answer is… but people have a real reluctance to give up their cars and I can’t explain it.. except the massively increased costs are offset by the sheer convenience of shorter journey times and avoidance of living to a timetable. Who knows?
The Eclectic Interweb 
I wonder if the bus would attract more patrons if it went straight to the city instead of winding through the burbs for best part of an hour!
It might… but then it wouldn’t have the chance to pick anyone else and you’d be the only person on it… well ok that *does* have an ‘up’ side 🙂