It’s not often that you get to turn a hobby into a career. But Alicja Juszczyk has been fortunate enough to do just that.
A former special educational needs teacher, Alicja, 26, has always enjoyed tinkering with engines – she even acquired vintage buses from time to time, and restored them to take to rallies.
She spotted the opportunity to join Go-Ahead London, the capital’s biggest bus operator, as an apprentice engineer in 2020 and is now an expert at her craft – she can be called upon, for example, to fix a propellor shaft for a gearbox on a double-decker bus.
“Engineering is quite a broad area, there’s electrics and mechanical and bus body work so there’s a lot of different areas you can go into, says Alisha. “I’m aware that being a bus engineer is a male dominated industry and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. This is my interest, so why does it matter?”
