[plthijinx]

aviation is the ultimate goal. i've been an electrical designer for gas compressor stations, and tank truck loading facilities (gasoline loading racks) for the past 12 years. the only thing holding me up from joining the airlines is lack of multi-engine time. i need 17 more hours to meet the minimum requirements for continental express and realistically about 100 more to be marketable. only problem there is i can't "just go fly them" not at $160/hr. so i have to wait for charters or school related business to fly the twin.
with everything the hurricanes have done to the oil/gas/petrochemical plants around the gulf coast, engineering companies are hiring like mad and paying the rates to get the people in there. i've worked on and off for this company since september of '91 with a hiatus from may of '97 to may '98 when i did a job for chevron overseas petroleum designing a gas compressor barge. since coming back to the company we've been bought by a major engineering company in the south and like i said before we used to be a family. a real working family. now each person is just a number. there's no loyalty left here with anyone anymore.