:dunno: Can't help but notice your overwhelming need to tease me, MikeD.
Not teasing you, but I'll be serious if you like.
I did ask a year ago if anyone knew where I could a job, and nothing came of it, so I went back to school for an extra year and got a second minor. I was not looking for jobs during that time, nor was I aware of my school hiring. In fact, they laid people off.
Ok.
As for teasing, you'll find that I have very little tolerance for such nonsense. All too often I have seen such things go too far and go from harmless to just plain abusive, and have been victim to such acts myself. While it is fine every once in a while, I ask that you actually consider the targets that you tease and take into consideration your actions before you proceed. Many people are easily offended.
Ok, you want the straight skinny? Do you understand the concept of a joke? You seriously need to loosen the hell up, and lighten up. Just through your posts, you remind me of Moira Kelly's character from the 1992 movie
The Cutting Edge. In fact, with how thin-skinned you're coming across, and how "easily offended" you claim to be, who would hire you? You'd be a walking EEO complaint and huge liability that no employer would want to deal with, not to mention the chip on your shoulder that your co-workers would have to deal with. You may be very capable, but any capability you have would be FAR overshadowed by personality and attitude, which comes across as cold, overly serious, and an overinflated sense of entitlement since "I'm a female pilot." If you're easily offended, then you're in the wrong career.....and will spend most of your time being offended and pissed off.....want to live life that way?
You mention this:
(Glares) The last time someone dared to say that I wasn't going to be good at something because I was female, I insured that at the end of the semester there wasn't a single male who had a higher grade than me.
That right there says alot about you. First off, who the hell cares what someone says? To the point that you need to "prove them wrong"? You put WAY too much stock into what some nitwit thinks about you or a comment they make, and your focus is completely off. You're letting them control how
you feel and what
you do. What thats going to do is make nitwits be more this way towards you, just to see you react. Roll with it, show them you could care less what they think, have some confidence in yourself, and you wouldn't need to "prove" anything to anyone. From what you wrote above, you're
really trying to prove that you're good enough to
yourself, since I doubt any one of the comment-makers above really cared where you finished grade-wise. See my point?
Lighten up, smile a bit, loosen up, roll with things, have a little fun......if you don't, I guarantee your aviation career will be a short one, a lonely one, or a combination of both.
Here's how you come across, at least to me, scene from
The Cutting Edge; Moira Kelly meeting DB Sweeney. Fast forward to 5:00 mark. Pretty good flick overall.
But what the hell do I know? I've only been in the flying business for just a little while.
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