I have a question, how do you get your passengers?

1) Does the school admin assist to connect you to students? You have to register with the school to be driver.

2) Facebook helps?

3) word of mouth?

4) charge how much per month in Klang valley?

5) Do you charge by KM radius ?

6) Put telephone number on your van

no lah

school bus drivers not gonna reveal their secrets.

unless I pose as customer

who don't answer? you mean the school admin?

of course they don't layan la

but I am wondering how to access to school admin, to register oneself as school bus operator

sure or not?

school office won't tell to GTFO ?

yeah can try.

have you tried b4?

I referred to AI, some schools request for tender, usually are big school operators.

I suppose can try

but dunno if some will not layan because only layan the big operators.

who knows maybe got wang kopi

I saw one van, he tampal his phone number very very big

I checked Deep Seek advised to go around and distribute flyers.

i just recce three schools in a precint

got like one operator with cheap vans no air cond, I counted at least 5.

Go from one school to another.

Damn, this fella is smart.

go for new year

they just kuli working for school operator boss

actually for me fetching my children to school is the most fun experience.

of course, every job/business got challenges lor.

jobs/business is to solve problems. If no issue then what for have jobs/business unless dedak business?

Look at the bright side, after fetching kids in morning, can sleep/rest until back to noon to go to school and take them back home.

And then depends on you whether you want more money and expand to evening school.

Even then, you can still sleep/rest in afternoon.

Its not an 8 hour work/day.

after dropping off kids, you can morning have breakfast at kopitiam look at phone or go to gym run run or attend exercise - pilate or yoga then shower, then go to starbuk to drink coffee read book, then noon pick up the kids lor.

yeah..

who knows?

can even promote tution business one to one.

pitch to parents...

primary school is piece of cake...

I asked one friend why he send to tution center for his standard 2 kid. He said because kid don't listen to him.

yeah not really thinking that far.

thinking of doing basics first

tution biz needs rapport

build up from scratch

rather do at one to one travel to house tution

don't do classroom, too ambitious, I seen a lot of people try but failed.

as you said slowly is safer, so one to one is the best

because you build up rapport from there

if you straight away start classroom, if you rented shop house, you gonna potentially lose a lot of capital if it doesn't work out.

I personally know one guy who has been doing one-to-one tution for 10 years.



This post has been edited by hoonanoo: Oct 31 2025, 08:45 AM

yup

depends...

I got one friend, he still single in 50s....

he starts work at 4pm onwards until 10pm.

then at night, he has to do research and prepare for lessons next day until 3am.

He sleeps until 12 noon, wake up gets his lunch, rinse and repeat.

then in weekends at night, he go play futsal.

well...of course its tiring

but he is single, in his mid 50s

he's being doing this for decades

the disadvantage is that he doesn't get his EPF employer contribution

he once told me he had a traumatic experience at his employer, he doesn't want to go back to work anymore

this is why it is useful when one has extra capabilities, such as ability to give tution, eg piano lessons as a hedge against unemployment