Celebration

It’s been a long, hard road for a lot of people over the last year or two. I guess I don’t need to mention that unemployment numbers are unlike anything most of us have seen in our lifetime, but I did anyway.

I’ve sat and commiserated with a good number of unemployed people over the past year, a truly shocking number of them highly educated and until recently, with very successful careers. CFO’s, CPA’s, IT guys, directors and managers of all sorts, many of them have begun to get extremely discouraged and frustrated, wondering when they will start drawing a regular paycheck again.

But last night I was able to celebrate the wonderfully unexpected success of one of those people, a corporate jet pilot, re-entering the workforce and best of all, as a contract corporate jet pilot. As you might imagine, those positions are not easy to find these days, given the current political view toward corporate owned jets. And to add to the wonder, I think my pilot friend wouldn’t argue with me if we simply said that he has a LOT of hours in his logbook.

So to quickly get to the point of this rambling post, I would like to offer my friend the most heartfelt congratulations, wishing him blue skies and tailwinds always. Fly safe, Tom.

2 Responses to “Celebration”

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   May 23, 2010 at 7:58 pm

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2. Rickey Nakamoto says:

   June 3, 2010 at 7:12 am

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