Some people just have a servant’s heart. They live lives of selflessness and sacrifice in such an easy manner that you wonder how they do it! If anyone meets falls into the category of that kind of person, it’s Mike Mason.
Mike is a 63-year-old man from Midlothian, Virginia who has spent his whole life serving others.
Mike started his career as a Captain in the Marines. He was very good at his job and eventually found himself working in the FBI once he was out of the military. When he left the FBI, he was at the top of the chain as the No. 4 man in the entire Bureau.
After leaving the FBI in 2007, he went to work at a Fortune 500 company until he eventually retired.
You would think that after such an active career, Mike would have been able to rest easy knowing he had done his part in serving others and serving his country. For Mike, however, retirement just wasn’t doing it for him!
“I still had a mind and I still had things I was capable of doing,” he said.
For a guy like Mike, what kind of job would be up to par with his skills and experience?
As you can imagine, most things would be wayyyy under him. Thankfully, he found the perfect thing – driving buses for a local school! That’s right, Mike the ex-FBI-Marine-Fortune-500 man was now going to be driving big yellow buses for a living.
“When I gave them my resume, I actually got called by a very senior person in the county and he said, ‘Just checking, why do you want to be a bus driver?’ And I told him,” Mason said.
Schools all across the nation have been facing extreme driver shortages and Mike was willing to step up.
The Chesterfield County Public School District, the one where Mike sent his resume, was down 125 drivers for the year. For Mike, there wasn’t anything more important than helping kids get to school!
“I think this is important work, I do,” he said, adding that he believes the work is just as important as what he was doing at the FBI. “I think in our society we need to get next to the idea that there are no unimportant jobs. I mean, what could be more important than the attention we pay to our education system?”
Even more, Mike isn’t taking the salary they are giving him.
Most people would be happy to pocket the 35k that the school was paying out to the drivers, but it wasn’t about the money for Mike. He decided to take the salary and give it to some charities he likes. Even after achieving things that little kids dream of, he was willing to drive those same kids around for free. It’s a truly selfless sort of thing to do.
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