epiphany
My Mum gave got me a gift certificate for a flying lesson for my birthday last year of which I decided to cash in a few weeks ago. My lesson was supposed to be today, but unfortunately my scheduled aircraft was in for maintenance and was unexpectedly unavailable this weekend so I had to reschedule for next weekend instead.
Many of you do not know this but I had an aspiration to become a pilot in the Australian Air Force but backed out when I was a teenager because of the high maths requirement. This unfortunately made me back out of this ambition, albeit I ended up doing the advanced math required of a pilot in later years anyway. One thing led to another and I somehow ended up in Information Technology, specifically Linux..go figure ;P One of the things I’d love to do if I ever were to leave my current profession would be to fly! Considering the current spate of outsourcing of IBM staff to India, there may be a time when our team becomes dissolved to a vindaloo loving peer, which means I’d be looking for alternative means of employment. I’m currently classified in the IBM’s Top Talent programme so I don’t think this will be something in the oh so near future, but if it does… then I’ll have something of interest to bound on into.
I’ve been into flying for such a long time now. As a teenager, I was an Australian Air League member with the aspirations (as mentioned above) to join the air force. As discovered recently, the amount of hours required to gain your pilot’s licence isn’t as much as I had perceived and may actually be a reality. I’ll have to wait and see how things go next weekend as see if its somehting that I’d still be interested in doing.
Edit: geesh Darren is a spelling bee nazi!
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