Workin' Hard or Hardly Workin'?

Posted by Kevin........

Aaaah, the good old days: when gas was $2.799 a gallon and my truck sat parked for a week at a time, when I only worked four or five days a month, and when Stace had only one job and she HATED it.

Now things are much different. Stace is a college professor with her own private practice AND works at a counseling center. I fly four days a week, driving 80 to 120 miles round trip to various airports and get paid more for it. Oh, and gas is now $1.899.


My schedule for the rest of winter will be flying cargo from Minneapolis throughout North Dakota in the middle of the night 3 days a week. Then flying throughout South Dakota during the day on Fridays.

I had two meetings in St. Paul on Monday with various aviation operations people about expanding our services in St. Paul. Without going into detail, we are considering providing increased service out of St. Paul if we are sure the market can support it. So I "spied" around the airport finding out info about our competitors while another pilot talked with an advertising firm in the city.

The course Stace is teaching ends Thursday January 25, and she will be taking some time off in February for a tiny vacation.

Teaching a college course while working another full time job and still seeing her private clients on the side is, well..........it's a lot like riding your bike 100 miles in one afternoon:

It's hard work, at times you feel totally overwhelmed, it seems like it's never going to end, you ask yourself why are you doing this and when it's over you say you are never going to do this again.

And then you sit back, rest a while, and start looking for the next ride.