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- My name is Jackie Moriarty, I've been
a TFL Tube driver for 19 years.
I definitely didn't plan to be a
train driver when I was growing up.
I did have a bit of a railway background
before I came onto the Underground, but not as a driver.
I think it's a job that can be completely chilled out
until something happens, and then
you have to react really quickly.
It's not unusual for people to run just as the door
is almost closed, and pull it back open.
You see things that you think are quite silly,
but this is London, I think we're used to the unusual.
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The things I enjoy about being a train driver
is we get free travel on TFL, so we get
free travel on the Tube and the bus.
It's a job that you can work around family life.
With the shift system and the systems that they
have in place once you get here, you can swap
for different shifts, so you can kind of fit
the job around childcare and any other commitments, really.
Sometimes it can be a little bit isolating
because you're working alone, so I suppose
that is one of the downsides of the job.
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No two days are the same; you can have
a very quiet period, then you might have
a day where lots of things happen.
Those days tend to go quite quickly.
Any job can be boring if you've done it for quite a while,
but I do enjoy this job, and I can see myself
staying in this job, definitely.
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