Bill Z's Blog

Today I signed up for the next three months of work at TriMet. This sign up runs from December 5, 2004 through March 5, 2005. This sign up TriMet is pilot testing 3 day weeks for the part time operators. Depending on what is available when you sign up, you have an option of 5 days at 5 to 6 hours per day or three days at 8:20 to 10:00 hours per day. All 5 day week work is Monday through Friday, and all 3 day week work is Saturday, Sunday, and one week day. This means you have a 40% chance of working Monday or Friday, and getting 4 days off in a row. I was able to get acceptable hours with a Friday, Saturday, Sunday work week. I had to switch from the Center Garage at SE 17th Avenue and Center Street in SE Portland, to the Merlo Garage on Merlo Road in Beaverton. My commuting distance will go down, but the commuting time will go up because Beaverton traffic is usually much worse than Portland. It will be interesting to see how this works out for me.