Creative Nonfiction
2 min
What do I daydream about?
Donté
What do I daydream about? Going to work or coming from work?
Coming to work. I daydream about having a great day. I look forward to it being a great day. I try not to carry the burdens from the day before.
Going home, my daydream time is like a pat on the back, a "Hurray! I made it through the day", you know? Prayerfully, nothing bad happened. And if it did, let's recover from it. Did I give it my best? I recap the day. You know, I think about things that I did. I think about projects that I may have worked on. Was it something better I could have said? Was it something more I could have contributed?
But for the most part, it's like a decompress moment. I made it through the day. So that's my that's my daydream moment.
I've been at SEPTA for 18 years. I am the Senior Director of Controls and Operations here at SEPTA.
I oversee the different parts of the control center, every aspect of the operation that has a moving part. So, railroad controls, and I oversee that which basically is monitoring our day-to-day railroad operation: the Subway elevator and Light Rail Division. I monitor our Broad Street Market Frankford line as well as our subway service trolley and suburban rail lines and then bus operations.
And then we have control center information, which basically is the new way we keep in touch with our passengers, our daily riders.
I keep the website up to date with any services, delays, accidents, incidents, or emergency service disruptions. We put that information on the control center's website to keep our passengers informed.
Transportation has been a big part of my life. I've always had an interest in transportation since I was a kid.
I grew up on SEPTA. My mother didn't have a car when I was younger, so we caught the bus everywhere, the trolleys, everywhere on, the subway system. At a pretty young age, I was able to really get around the city.
I remember growing up that public transportation was something that we depended on. You know, when we had to be at school, my mother had to go to work, my father had to go to work. We depended on public transportation to get there because everybody couldn't afford a car at some point. Or a car wasn't always a priority to have. When you had public transportation.
I remember the people who had to get to where they had to go, doctor's appointments, school, day to day life, you know, and I enjoy making sure that we are doing the best we can with that. I oversee, I take detours. If the routes are on detours, I make sure that they make sense.
Every day is a challenge.
But I love the challenge that it brings everyday. it brings every day.
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