CAREER: If you could snap your fingers and...

Pro musician, no doubt. Or TV show host (no matter how much I hate TV, I'd like to do cool/funny stuff). But more realistically, I might become a small plane pilot. Flying looks like fun.

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

messiaen77 wrote:

escapist fantasy.  I want to be...a lumberjack!

Leaping from tree to tree! As they float down the mighty rivers of
British Columbia! With my best girl by my side!
The Larch!
The Pine!
The Giant Redwood tree!
The Sequoia!
The Little Whopping Rule Tree!
We'd sing! Sing! Sing!

I turns out there are a lot of perks to lumberjacking.  I particularly like the possibility of having my Wednesdays free for shopping, and I do loves me some buttered scones!

Oh man now I got that song stuck in my head hahahaha!

Mission accomplished.

  

Driven wrote:

But more realistically, I might become a small plane pilot. Flying looks like fun.

Definitely, but no money in small planes unless you're a bush pilot. You need twin-engine to be a charter pilot. Helicopters could work though.

Cool. Have you ever flown a plane?

Anyone hear about that News Copter that went down near us in Los Angeles California ? Was really sad. The news people in the building said they heard the copter take off from it's pad on the roof as it did every morning, but this time something didn't sound right. A malfunction took the bird straight down the side of the building and literally exploded on top of 3 cars that were parked out front. Killed the 2 passengers (one who just came out of retirement to work part time as photographer) and sent a couple car occupants to the hospital. There was nothing left of the helicopter - It disintegrated. So sad. I felt so bad for the families.

messiaen77 wrote:

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

messiaen77 wrote:

escapist fantasy.  I want to be...a lumberjack!

Leaping from tree to tree! As they float down the mighty rivers of
British Columbia! With my best girl by my side!
The Larch!
The Pine!
The Giant Redwood tree!
The Sequoia!
The Little Whopping Rule Tree!
We'd sing! Sing! Sing!

I turns out there are a lot of perks to lumberjacking.  I particularly like the possibility of having my Wednesdays free for shopping, and I do loves me some buttered scones!

Who doesn't?

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

Anyone hear about that News Copter that went down near us in Los Angeles California ? Was really sad. The news people in the building said they heard the copter take off from it's pad on the roof as it did every morning, but this time something didn't sound right. A malfunction took the bird straight down the side of the building and literally exploded on top of 3 cars that were parked out front. Killed the 2 passengers (one who just came out of retirement to work part time as photographer) and sent a couple car occupants to the hospital. There was nothing left of the helicopter - It disintegrated. So sad. I felt so bad for the families.

Oh dear. That does sound bad.

Driven wrote:

Cool. Have you ever flown a plane?

A few times. My parents had various planes for quite some time. They paid for my first lesson at 16 and said the rest was up to me. That was my only lesson. I did get to take off and land it though. The other times were just flying our's once it was in the air.

Nice! I didn't know you could take your first lesson at only 16. Or has it changed since?

It's the same AFAIK in the US. There's even a special category now for certain small aircraft that makes it much easier to fly albeit with several limitations.