Being a bus driver can be challenging at times, but there’s another transit job in Sacramento that really has its ups and downs.
Earleen Pringle is a SacRT elevator attendant. She operates the two-story lift at the Watt Avenue and Interstate 80 light rail station, keeping an eye out for trouble.
In the mid-1900s, there were 90,000 elevator operators across the nation. Today, the job’s virtually extinct, along with telephone operators, one-hour photo workers, video store clerks and other positions replaced with modern technology…