The incessant rain and cold sucks the motivation right out of my soul. It will start ducking below freezing soon.
I am avoiding writing my entry for the weekly discussion board, complete with references. I also have a writing project due Friday that is fairly extensive. Plus the term paper to get a roll on.
Every time I get toward the end of an academic endeavor I hear myself repeating the words “That’s it! I’m done with formal education!”
I said that when I finally graduated from the Fleet Replacement Squadron - basically my first post-graduate degree. That was 22 years ago.
Little did I know that I got to go to class for most of my career after that. A NATOPS open book exam which was an exercise in math and logic, using charts to determine cornering speed at a given altitude and gross weight. Calculating the takeoff and abort data card for different airfields based on MSL, temperature, runway length etc etc.
Then there was the closed book where everything in the 800 page NATOPS manual was fair game. Then the instrument exam.
Then the NATOPS simulator, which was pretty much one malfunction after another until you had to make the decision to eject. Ejecting in a simulator is cheap.
Then the NATOPS flight. Then the systems flight. Then the instrument simulator. then the Systems simulator. Then the instrument flight check.
All of the above annual.
Then fly off to the desert only to return early to go to the Information Operations Staff Officer Course (a three week post-graduate experience for those working for admirals), then Aviation Safety School, the staff course at TACTRAGRUPAC, another at FIWC then one goddamn thing after another.
I question my sanity in deciding to seek a civilian post-graduate degree. But I wasn’t working, and the money was there.
I keep saying I am not going after a PhD. But the way I work is I will get bored and think it makes sense.
I never get tired of looking at Donna.
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