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What It's Like To Be...

An Ice Cream Truck Driver

What It's Like To Be...

Dan Heath

Curiosity, Jobs, Careers, Business, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Human Interest

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Transforming school buses into ice cream trucks, watching kids grow up (one popsicle at a time), and struggling to keep the freezers running with Erin Bailey, an ice cream truck driver in New Jersey. What’s her best selling treat? And does she ever get sick of the ice cream truck song? Music credit: "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin Courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License GOT A COMMENT OR SUGGESTION? Email us at jobs@whatitslike...

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0:00.0

Erin Bailey is an ice cream truck driver.

0:04.3

When I started this, I was 27 years old.

0:06.8

I had no business background.

0:10.4

I had no idea what I was doing.

0:12.1

It was kind of like a hobby, I guess, to start.

0:14.7

And I was kind of miserable at my job.

0:16.9

So I was like, all right, you know,

0:17.9

if I can just do something to kind of offset my living expenses and maybe I can do this.

0:24.0

She found an old school bus and with some help, she turned it into an ice cream truck.

0:29.2

And my kids were very young.

0:30.6

So actually, we took one of the bus seats and put them in the truck.

0:34.5

And my kids were three and six at the time and they would come with me.

0:40.8

Now, just imagine you're a three-year-old kid surrounded by more ice cream than you could eat in a

0:45.7

month. Sounds like heaven, right? They hated it. They hated every many of it. Oh my. Yeah.

0:52.6

So they weren't bribable with ice cream and popsicles?

0:56.3

No, actually, they didn't really eat that much ice cream. But it's funny because, yeah, kids,

1:01.4

they're like, oh, can I come drive with you? Can I work with you? Can I come in the ice cream truck?

1:06.6

I get that all the time. And I was like, believe me, ask my kids, you will hate it 15 minutes in.

1:26.4

I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

1:30.3

In every episode of the show, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession,

1:34.3

a couples therapist, a stand-up comedian, a turnaround consultant.

1:39.3

We want to know what they do all day at work.

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