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What's your day job?

Airport security. Currently beginning the process of acquiring my private pilot license, to eventually fly commercially.

Are you a speedbird man?

Speedbird? You mean the British Airways callsign, or is there some other meaning I don't know?
I work for a handling company so we handle a lot of different airlines (pretty much anything that operates in Dublin except Ryanair, Delta, Emirates and BA ... although we have handled BA in the past ... in fact I ran the last crew to handle a Concorde in Ireland!)


Good luck with the piloting career. It's a long hard and very expensive road.
 
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Medieval history professor. Nearly got out of teaching to become a librarian, but I'm back in.

When I first started college it was with every intention of becoming a secondary school(high school) teacher.
Then our government banned corporal punishment so I lost interest, thinking well, if I can't beat knowledge into the little brats, where's the fun in it?:D

Actually, I also was playing in three working bands at the time...and college sort of fell by the wayside anyways...
 
There are still a few of us around! Kids coming out of school these days can't even spell COBOL.
Yup, mainframes are dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are hungry.

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Speedbird? You mean the British Airways callsign, or is there some other meaning I don't know?
I work for a handling company so we handle a lot of different airlines (pretty much anything that operates in Dublin except Ryanair, Delta, Emirates and BA ... although we have handled BA in the past ... in fact I ran the last crew to handle a Concorde in Ireland!)


Good luck with the piloting career. It's a long hard and very expensive road.
Yep, I was asking if you were working for British Airways. Sounds like contracting is your deal, as was mine. I worked for Swissport years ago, but left for a local all-cargo company based in my present location. They run old 737 classics, real neat planes.
 
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I'm a structural and miscellaneous steel detailer (I draw up plans for steel fabricators to use in the fabrication of anything made out of steel. Buildings, ladders, stairs, railings, etc.). I worked for fabricators for years until I started my own business doing it for myself in June of 2015. It's been nuts ever since then. There is a lot of work out there.
 
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