As of this moment, I couldn’t be happier. Its only been 3 days since I resigned, but life looks so much better from here. Chief among everything, I feel a new found respect for my home. It is a meager house, but it is OURS. My bed is my bed and will see me in it every night for some time to come. I am smiling as well at the thought that I will see my wife every day for the foreseeable future. I spent more time with any given captain on a 4-day trip than I spent with my wife in many weeks. That isn’t exactly what I call a balanced life.
Instead of being in a “hang on” phase, I am once again in a “building” phase. My hands are on the steering wheel again, the auto pilot is off, and its time to shine.
One of the most important goals going forth, as I have mentioned in another post, is to dedicate a percentage (10% or so) of my free attention to build up my flying involvement, network, meet new people, learn new things, explore new ways to stay involved with aviation, etc. I am officially a flight instructor for a local flight school now. I’ve gotten checked out in their airplane and am very excited about teaching again. I’ve logged nearly 6 hours in the airplane now and am feeling more and more comfortable every time I fly it. I’ve shaken 3 or 4 hands since I’ve been there and am going to continue to “be around” for any opportunities that arise. I am also working with a student on an independent basis flying his personally owned Cessna 150 and am loving that very much. So, for now things are moving along well with the aviation world. I will never log the quantity of hours that I would at an airline. But, I’d rather fly 4 hours in a week and have FUN than fly 30 hours in the flight levels living off Subway and McDonald’s and staying at the LaQuinta over and over again missing my wife and family.
My school schedule is almost perfect and I am stoked about beginning in January. My primary goal is to get this CPA test done and behind me as quickly as possible, followed very closely by staying very active as a flight instructor and in the air logging as many hours as possible. Logged hours + ground instruction given = money. Money = good.
I’ve got a 15 item do list that has to be knocked off during the next 3 weeks before school starts. So even in this brief time between obligations, there is no rest for the weary.
I am constantly thinking of ways to blend my accounting knowledge with aviation going forth. I believe it will be possible down the road to set a material portion of my to-be business to working with aviation business matters. It is an interesting thought…….
Good times ahead.