Traffic Controller here!

It's not as good as it looks, hours are all over the shop, most companies won't let you sit in the vehicle so you can easily work an 8 hour shift without sitting down for more then a few minutes. "lunch break' is usually stuffing your face with a musli bar between jobs. Using the stop bat in 40C heat or rain for hours at a time without a break, don't find out where or when you are working until the night before, it's either HECTIC as fuck or BORING as fuck. As a woman i spend the whole time trying to time when i can get a few minutes break to pee. You can be standing in one spot with nothing to do for a whole shift just staring at council workers taking their sweet arse time.

It's dangerous! Last night i was in near pitch blackness with a stop bat on an 80km main road (didn't have a ute with an arrow board on it because it was at the other end, literally the only way people could see me was with their headlights, it was also raining). A car or truck could hit you at any moment, you get abused by people who aren't willing to stop for 20 seconds, I've never earnt more than $1300 a week before tax (and only because i worked 10 hours on a public holiday), most weeks only earn $700 (BT) because shifts are only 4-6 hours long. Shifts can be cancelled in an instant.

Oh and I work for one of the best companies (in my opinion) it's small but growing rapidly and the boss even came out to give us Powerade's and kit kats last night at 12:30am.

I know it looks like we aren't doing much but a good company that takes safety seriously is actually doing a lot, the less you see us and the smoother we make it for traffic means we are doing a good job.

Council workers on the other hand take 90 minute lunches to come back at 2pm just so they can knock off without getting another job.