Late Nights

So... I really suck at taking the time to write to everyone out there. On days in which I am locked in my apartment because there is a tropical storm outside and flying is a distant memory I waste the day away instead of doing something useful. I am giving up on trying to catch everyone up on my life since I moved to Florida and from here on out will just stick to the title of this blog.  I am sorry if you are a friend of mine and decide to follow this blog because you will be subject to the inner workings of my mind whenever I get the urge to write.

Over the past Month or so since Lauren (my wife) started her new job as a teacher, at Imagine Schools, life has been insane. I have two students at Flight Safety who started from nothing so I am getting some good flight time logged and I am spending the rest of my time trying to be a supportive husband by helping Lauren in her first year of teaching. It seems like my life consists of nothing but driving, flying, and doing random things in Lauren's classroom.  To give you an idea my day could start anywhere from 5am to 9am and I usually don't get home until around 8pm or later.

Even though I feel like the move to Florida was the right move for Lauren and I, I am still unhappy with my position in life. I am sick of the aviation industry and the false promise of work, or rather the false promise of being paid for the work you do, and yet I absolutely love flying and can't imagine doing anything else with my time or life. I hate the fact that after 4 years of college culminating in a BS with a dual focus, 8 certificates, and hundreds of thousands dollars later someone with an associates degree and 2 years of college can make three times as much as i can with their first job.

It seems funny to me that most of the time you have two choices in life, you can follow your passion and be miserable but somewhat satisfied or you can sellout and go for the money and just be miserable. For the extremely lucky few that get to have both money and be doing something they absolutely love congrats! and make the most of it for the rest of us who struggle with one or the other.