Classifieds in this issue include executive and managerial positions with transit agencies and vendors throughout North America! 

How many bus mechanics could step out of the garage and onto the runway?

Marilin Archie, who works on compressed natural gas engines and brake systems for Los Angeles Metro, hopes to make the move as a contestant on She’s Got the Look on the TV Land channel. The winner of the competition receives a contract with the Wilhelmina Models agency and a photo spread in Self Magazine.

Archie told The Source, L.A. Metro’s online news source, that she had hoped to become a model when she was a child, but her family could not cover the costs of schools and training. She joined Metro in 1990, at age 18, and cleaned buses as a service attendant for 15 years.

“I grew up here at Metro…the agency practically raised me,” said Archie. She explained that, after taking classes at Los Angeles Trade Technical College and Santa Monica College, took the agency’s on-the-job training program to become a mechanic.

Archie is a second-generation Metro employee: her mother retired in 2000 after 23 years of service and community outreach. 

She’s Got the Look is a competition to discover a beautiful, sophisticated, and confident woman over the age of 35; Archie is 38, married, and has two children. Other contestants this season include a trial lawyer, an Olympic swimmer, an insurance agent, and a grandmother of six.

Marilin Archie, Metro mechanic...	...and model.

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