Five Years Into The Rest Of My Life

Five years.

This morning, I found myself realizing that it was five years ago today that I started my airline career as a cross-utilized agent for AirTran Airways at DFW. It has flown by so quickly.

I'll be honest. It was never my intention to stay in this business. I was leaving behind my dream of working in radio broadcasting and looking for employment. I had just quit my job as a salesman at North Texas Nissan. I was there about two weeks when I decided that I wasn't willing to sell my soul along with the Xterras I was pushing out the door. While searching for jobs, I found several airlines hiring and I applied with all of them. I figured I'd work at the airport, travel a little, and move on to something else. Things didn't really go that way.

As a kid, I loved going to the airport. I loved when we drove through DFW on our way to the Metroplex. I always wanted to work around the airplanes...this was my chance. I never knew I would get bit by the bug.





I worked at AirTran for a couple of years, then got my Aircraft Dispatcher certificate and moved on to SkyWest. I've been here for three years. In the last five years, I've traveled like no other, seen places I never thought I'd see, experienced things I never dreamed of, made friends from so many different backgrounds, and found the woman I plan to marry someday.

It's been an incredible ride and I look forward to what then next five years in this crazy business will bring.


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Another new year...

I've got a pretty solid feeling about 2010. Nevermind the fact that I spent the 1st morning of the new decade in the emergency room with an extremely painful eye condition. Oh well, right? It at least pushed me to go to the eye doctor and get new glasses and whatnot.




Christmas and NYE was a blast. Spent New Year's in Vegas with Linds, her brothers Blair and Dylan, Dylan's girlfriend Jess, and our friend Sydnee. We spent the days leading up to NYE hanging in Vegas...wandering the strip, checking out Penn & Teller's awesome show at the Rio, and gambling small amounts of money. Great time, really.

Now, we're back at home, being domesticated and whatnot. Loving 2010, thus far. Here's to keeping it together.

Downtheroad...


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SGU by Helo and AT-SAT Test

What a week.

Yesterday, I took the AT-SAT exam in Salt Lake City. Basically, it's the FAA's Air Traffic Controller entry test. Long story short, it was tough and I'm beating myself up over it at the moment. Oh well, if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. It's not like I'm living or dying by this.

Before I left for SLC, Linds called me prior to getting to the St. George airport to ask if I wanted to go on a helicopter ride. After I realized she wasn't kidding, I hauled tail to her school's soccer field. It's Drug-Free week and a local helo pilot was shuttling the St. George Police's canine unit around the local elementary and middle schools as part of the Red Ribbon Week assemblies.

Since Lindsey's school was last on the list for the day, the pilot asked if some of the teachers wanted to go on a quick sight-seeing tour of St. G. I've gotta admit, I think I appreciate the beauty of what we have in our backyard alot more now that I've seen it from a low-altitude hover. I also have to admit that earning a helicopter pilot's license would make me immensely happy man. I've got it all planned out in my head. I get a commercial helo license, Lindsey ta kes a teaching job in Costa Rica, and I fly tours and shuttle passengers to San Jose and Liberia. It's quite the spectacular pipe dream...but, hey...a guy can dream, right?

Click on the pic above for my Flickr photoset... Linds has one or two on her blog.

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