Suresh Saidappa Harijan was barely 21 when he first sat behind the wheel of a school bus. He doesn’t remember how the last 15 years went by. But, Harijan, a father of three children, says he saw himself doing this job for the rest of his life. “I was quite content. While I had to put in long hours on weekdays, I had the weekends for my family,” says the 36-year-old Andheri resident. “We’d barely manage with the salary. Whatever my wife [a house help] and I would make was spent on our children’s education. They have always been our priority. We wanted them to study and find more respectable jobs.”