Kids still dream.

ShyFlyer said:
ABQ has one of their viewing areas right next to an active airfield access gate. Terminal ramp to be exact.

I like hanging out at the airport. However, it's somewhat bittersweet. Sometimes I can't help but think I'm watching people do a job I won't get a chance to do.
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Just remember the parts you don't get to see: the 4AM alarm clock for a 6AM show, to work a 12 hour day, to live out of a suitcase in some hotel, on Thanksgiving.
 
O&M said:
Just remember the parts you don't get to see: the 4AM alarm clock for a 6AM show, to work a 12 hour day, to live out of a suitcase in some hotel, on Thanksgiving.
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I did all of that (3am show, 14 hr days, 7 days a week) at a non-aviation job as well.
 
I've had my cert since '96 and I still get excited everytime I fly, in front or back. Some of us still love it after all these years.
 
Apophis said:
Perhaps, but having those documents available shouldn't even be necessary. It is complete and utter BS that any person exhibiting an interest in aviation (especially spotting at an airport with airline service) is viewed as suspicious and/or criminal.
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I agree 110%. Took this while I was waiting on pax down in an airport in FL.
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There were also posters posted everywhere with the hooded guy taking pictures. The TSA considers taking a picture of an airplane criminal now apparently.
 
O&M said:
Just remember the parts you don't get to see: the 4AM alarm clock for a 6AM show, to work a 12 hour day, to live out of a suitcase in some hotel, on Thanksgiving.
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If it's what you love then you'll find happiness in it.
 
1B9Pilot said:
If it's what you love then you'll find happiness in it.
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This attitude is why we're ALL butthurt. It's occurred to you, I suppose, that what "makes you happy" (whatever that is) might conceivably...wait for it...change!? I listen to this stuff and all I can think of is a kid swearing up and down that if you'll just buy them the latest toy they will be happy FOREVER and NEVER ASK FOR ANYTHING AGAIN.

Operating an aviation appliance WILL NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY. You might be one of the lucky few who wins up relatively happy as an aviation appliance operator. Now, can you spot the difference between the two statements?
 
Boris Badenov said:
This attitude is why we're ALL butthurt. It's occurred to you, I suppose, that what "makes you happy" (whatever that is) might conceivably...wait for it...change!? I listen to this stuff and all I can think of is a kid swearing up and down that if you'll just buy them the latest toy they will be happy FOREVER and NEVER ASK FOR ANYTHING AGAIN.

Operating an aviation appliance WILL NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY. You might be one of the lucky few who wins up relatively happy as an aviation appliance operator. Now, can you spot the difference between the two statements?
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Ok for the record I don't have the rose-colored glasses on. I understand that there is a lot of sacrifice to flying etc. 2 years ago I was all set to become an airline pilot, now I question whether or not that will make me the happiest (just with every job out there). If I choose to become a professional pilot, then I do so because I love it and will find happiness. If I find a job that isn't that and I'm happy, then I will love it with no regrets. It's tough being 17 and being told basically you got one year to plan out your life and I've always been told, do what is going to make you happy not do what you hate. If flying airplanes won't bring people happiness, then how come airlines get 1000 applications for 100 spots? Not trying to argue with you at all, just raising my point :)
 
1B9Pilot said:
It's tough being 17 and being told basically you got one year to plan out your life
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Dude, relax. Planning out your life is a waste of time, anyway. The one thing that you can rely on is that it will not turn out the way you plan. Or if it does, your plan will no longer seem like enough. All of this is fine, it's normal, it's natural and it happens to everyone (I hereby challenge someone over 30 to make the claim with a straight face that their life has gone exactly as they'd planned when they were 17 and that they're 100% content at all time with every choice they've made).

The point (if I have one) is that dbrault is a remedial (HI BUDDY) and that looking to a job (any job) to determine your level of satisfaction with life is INSANE. As in probably literally DSM-grade the-shirt-that-makes-you-hug-yourself insane.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Dude, relax. Planning out your life is a waste of time, anyway. The one thing that you can rely on is that it will not turn out the way you plan. Or if it does, your plan will no longer seem like enough. All of this is fine, it's normal, it's natural and it happens to everyone (I hereby challenge someone over 30 to make the claim with a straight face that their life has gone exactly as they'd planned when they were 17 and that they're 100% content at all time with every choice they've made).

The point (if I have one) is that dbrault is a remedial (HI BUDDY) and that looking to a job (any job) to determine your level of satisfaction with life is INSANE. As in probably literally DSM-grade the-shirt-that-makes-you-hug-yourself insane.
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Yeah you make a point :) and it is that there is more to life to just your job and the job only encompasses a fraction of your person as a whole. I see where you are coming from. We get too much stress put on us in school about planning your whole career. :panic:
 
This is not an aviation video, but I thought it is relevant to this thread and to those pursuing a "dream". Watch Conan speak to a crowd of Ivy League grads at Dartmouth:

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O&M said:
Just remember the parts you don't get to see: the 4AM alarm clock for a 6AM show, to work a 12 hour day, to live out of a suitcase in some hotel, on Thanksgiving.
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Oh, I haven't. Besides, apart from living out of a suitcase, what you just described was a typical day at my job.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Dude, relax. Planning out your life is a waste of time, anyway. The one thing that you can rely on is that it will not turn out the way you plan. Or if it does, your plan will no longer seem like enough. All of this is fine, it's normal, it's natural and it happens to everyone (I hereby challenge someone over 30 to make the claim with a straight face that their life has gone exactly as they'd planned when they were 17 and that they're 100% content at all time with every choice they've made).
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I know I wouldn't. If someone had told me at 17 I would get a pilot's license I would have laughed at them. (Heck, if you had told me that 3 years ago you would have received the same response.) Plans and priorities change as you get older.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Dude, relax. Planning out your life is a waste of time, anyway. The one thing that you can rely on is that it will not turn out the way you plan. Or if it does, your plan will no longer seem like enough. All of this is fine, it's normal, it's natural and it happens to everyone (I hereby challenge someone over 30 to make the claim with a straight face that their life has gone exactly as they'd planned when they were 17 and that they're 100% content at all time with every choice they've made).
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I will bite. I am over 30. I was a bit of an over achiever as a kid. Had a plan of where I wanted to be in 10 years when I was 17. At 22 I had already done all of it... Then what?

Been a lot less ambitious since then, but life has been a lot more fun.
 
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