The Transition

Oh dear.  The little company I've been working for went bust.  Wouldn't have known if it wasn't for the wonders of Google Translate.  Sat in the hotel playing Sins of a Solar Empire (awesome game), Finnish email came through.  I'll translate it later, after my game.  Unfortunately that game takes hours but something nagged at me.  Translate.  The word "bankruptcy" leapt out at me.  I leapt out my chair, shoved everything into a bag and legged it calmly out of that hotel in Birmingham and drove home.

And here we stand, hoping very much for a transition from this-

Retro and Hipsterish.  Not acceptable

To this-

Shiny and new.  I'll have some of that

The Boeing 757 was designed about 40 years ago.  It is a classic in every way but they don't make them anymore.  This means job opportunities get less and less.  This does not please me.  As much as I love it, I hope never to fly it again.

To the future!  I want to fly the 787.  Brand new with the new plane smell I have never smelled.  It may mean moving away for a while but I'm willing to do it for the career.  And head-up display!!  

The transition will be straight forward.  Boeing are lovely people and keep a certain philosophy to their design.  It is one I know well.  I'll just have more toys to play with.

To the future.

Gee us a job....

Lazy Git

No posting since April!  How lazy.  Without massive angst and a steady flow of shit in my life it is difficult to rant and rave in an amusing manner.

Spent a lot of time reading and playing Bejeweled on the iPad.  One is worthwhile, the other is not.  Outside of that, the collapse of civilisation in Europe has forced me to consider the "I'll never consider that" scenario of moving to Middle East for work.  As a pilot, Europe is not a good place to be.  My old colleagues are finding this out and wherever I look in Europe for anything decent it is rather depressing (notice Europe, not UK- UK is even more messed up!).  

I could hybernate for 5 years.  Considered it but my phobic tendency of  "arghh, life is passing me by" reared its head.  That is a no go.  Total career change, meh, I don't know how to do anything else that would pay decently enough.  Looks like stuck with flying for the moment.  

So from this

To this

I guess I'm going to have to get used to the idea.