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Enjoying your furlough...

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...well, not exactly. But...

Furlough - Past or Present -

We all know what we worry about being without a flying job. Not fun. Lets look at it differently. What is the bright spot you never expected out of being "recently free from employment" or "emloyed clolse to home for a change"?

My newborn who sometime in what seemed like a week (she's now 17 months old), now cries for Daddy in the middle of the night. I now know what a blessing that is.

I can make a KILLER Venison Stew!

My lawn looks like one!

Our new neighbors actually know who I am without my wife at my side.

Next???

...oh yeah. Feeling nostalgic? Check out the thread I started here (Majors Board) but got moved (To the GA Board) and died. I wish they'd move it back here 'cause here's where it was hot. Got some really good stuff here.

Here: http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=114692
 
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I learned how to skydive on furlough and enjoyed being close to family and friends. It was a bit boring at times without steady employment but I look back on it as a valuable time in life.
 
My wife's pregnant, our first after 3 years of trying (hell of a job, but someone's gotta do it). I haven't missed an office visit or ultrasound yet.

Don't miss spending $400/mo on gas getting back and forth to the airport. Don't miss the sodium-bomb airport food three times a day. Would be nice to get a steady paycheck from someone other than the guvment, but you gotta enjoy some parts of it.
 
since unemployment won't even cover my mortgage payment, I'll be enjoying the walk outdoors to the plasma donation center.
Exercise is good for me...
 
since unemployment won't even cover my mortgage payment, I'll be enjoying the walk outdoors to the plasma donation center.
Exercise is good for me...


How much are they paying? Do they do a credit check on you before the let you donate plasma?
If so I better start filling out the paper work now because I'll be filing for bankruptcy here in the very near future to try and save the house....

Oh yeah, I was supposed to look for a silver lining,
HMMMM lets see, Oh , OK I won't have a sore a$$ from red eye commutes back home on the jump seat anymore. Things are looking up!
 
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Enjoyed it for about two months. Then reality began to set in and I didn't have enough savings to get me through.

Now I'm a schlub that drives 25 miles each way in traffic. I hate that part.
 

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