What have you done to further your career today?

Washed and ironed my uniform so I won't be the smelly disheveled guy at the airport, which I will be anyways after taking a red eye to work tonight.
 
Volunteered to do some paid cross country discovery flights, another 4 hours of PIC Cross country time towards the ATP mins in the book!
 
Helped a guy getting ready to solo practice landing in gusting crosswinds, and worked with a couple others sharpen up their maneuvers in preparation for their checkrides. And for my efforts logged 4 hours more flight experience. Getting closer to that elusive ATP every day.
 
Took my dad flying on my day off, took an extra shift tomorrow which was supposed to be my other day off.

I was reading another thread with some comments from a guy who hates his job as a pilot. I've only done it for a living 3 months but I am encouraged and know I'm doing the right thing when I don't mind getting up at 5am to fly 6+ hours, 5 or 6 days a week, and I'm always looking to fly on my days off.

It probably helps I got my first flying job at 28 after spending the last 15 years working jobs no one would pay to do for fun.
 
Agreed, every job has it's positives and negatives, but once you've known a pretty bad soul-sucking job, it makes you appreciate being able to do what you love. Was just thinking today that although this current job isn't my end goal, I do enjoy sharing my love of aviation with my students and actually learn a lot from them that I never would doing any other type of flying. There's a lot of satisfaction and happiness that comes from developing a career in something you're passionate about.
 
I've updated apps and scheduled meet and greet sessions for OBAP next month in last couple days, but nothing today because I'm in the middle of moving to a new place. I'm also looking for the book that details jetBlue's start up to read before heading to Atlanta as well.
 
Helped fix an airplane that had to fly tonight. Someones gotta to do it. My employer still pays me for it so I guess that counts.
 
I told a co-worker of mine to get a real job.

Fixed a broken airplane.

Tomorrow I'm doing a test flight in which I'll slip with flaps, raise flaps in the flare, make an ATITPPA radio call and report upwind rather than departure leg.
 
etflies said:
I've updated apps and scheduled meet and greet sessions for OBAP next month in last couple days, but nothing today because I'm in the middle of moving to a new place. I'm also looking for the book that details jetBlue's start up to read before heading to Atlanta as well.
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@etflies

Here is a free brief read for you:http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/38/JetBlue-Airways-Corporation.html

an older but very good interview (6pages) with Neeleman

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/38/JetBlue-Airways-Corporation.html

you can find his book Flying High in Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardback formats

http://www.amazon.com/Flying-High-N...=UTF8&qid=1406085744&sr=8-1&keywords=neeleman

and their CAPA profile with all the tabs on the left side

http://centreforaviation.com/profiles/airlines/jetblue-airways-b6
 
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