Comments on: My job in pictures. http://www.passionaviator.com/2008/12/09/my-job-in-pictures/ People Living the "High Life", Literally. Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Scott http://www.passionaviator.com/2008/12/09/my-job-in-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-27538 Scott Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:29:09 +0000 http://www.passionaviator.com/?p=164#comment-27538 It's a tough lifestyle and a rough road at times, especially during the holidays. My wife has to explain the same thing over and over and over... I digress. On the plus side when he (we pilots) have days off, they are totally devoid of any form of "work" for the airlines. It does also get better with time and seniority, however there are bumps in the road. Furloughs (been through two myself...), displacements, etc... but in the end, we all like flying airplanes, and we actually love our jobs (just not the time away from home.) Nice photos! It’s a tough lifestyle and a rough road at times, especially during the holidays. My wife has to explain the same thing over and over and over… I digress. On the plus side when he (we pilots) have days off, they are totally devoid of any form of “work” for the airlines. It does also get better with time and seniority, however there are bumps in the road. Furloughs (been through two myself…), displacements, etc… but in the end, we all like flying airplanes, and we actually love our jobs (just not the time away from home.)

Nice photos!

]]> By: Joanna http://www.passionaviator.com/2008/12/09/my-job-in-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-21861 Joanna Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:17:02 +0000 http://www.passionaviator.com/?p=164#comment-21861 If I could put my pictures up they'd be something like this... Dinner (something that took no effort to prepare) on the couch with the dogs starring at me hoping a piece will fall, people looking at me astonished when I tell them I haven't seen my husband but 4 nights in the last (almost) 3 weeks, attending family functions alone and having to explain where you are 500 times, going to sleep and waking up to an empty bed most nights of the week, having NO clue what city you’re in tonight or exactly when you’ll be home again or if you’ll even make it home on your next commute, wondering who you’re eating with tonight (just the flight attendant?!?) and being perfectly ok either way because I trust you, watching you live out of your car and suitcase when you’re home…yes, those would be a few of my pictures. All in all I’ve found an inner independence and the ability to find beauty in the downsides of being a pilots’ wife! If I could put my pictures up they’d be something like this… Dinner (something that took no effort to prepare) on the couch with the dogs starring at me hoping a piece will fall, people looking at me astonished when I tell them I haven’t seen my husband but 4 nights in the last (almost) 3 weeks, attending family functions alone and having to explain where you are 500 times, going to sleep and waking up to an empty bed most nights of the week, having NO clue what city you’re in tonight or exactly when you’ll be home again or if you’ll even make it home on your next commute, wondering who you’re eating with tonight (just the flight attendant?!?) and being perfectly ok either way because I trust you, watching you live out of your car and suitcase when you’re home…yes, those would be a few of my pictures. All in all I’ve found an inner independence and the ability to find beauty in the downsides of being a pilots’ wife!

]]> By: Josh http://www.passionaviator.com/2008/12/09/my-job-in-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-20246 Josh Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:45:46 +0000 http://www.passionaviator.com/?p=164#comment-20246 Nice photos. It makes me want to get up right now and fly again. My father flies a DC-9 for Northwest Airlines. Nice photos. It makes me want to get up right now and fly again. My father flies a DC-9 for Northwest Airlines.

]]>