So I'm on strike...big deal, I got Mob thugs trying to squeeze the company I work for to lower the health insurance costs...for the 3 year contract we were offerred a plan that I had to pay about $27 a week, and then up to $29 a week...and the current plan is $16 a week....for me thats just BS and I can afford that and the plan they offered, but since a lot of the older guys I work with, their wife and 3 kids, they would end up paying like $59 or $80 a week....and they would just have to tough it. This strike is so unfair for me, because it;s going on the 5th week...and in 5 weeks, I can get my normal paycheck and get gobs of OT, and all the other crap I should hav got...so I'm in the hole waiting for other people to come to their senses....damn it....
Anyways, since the my life is dependant fully on work I can get from the company....and at times like this..I can't do anything. Sure I have time to build the cars, do work to the house, catch up on things...well...I really can't do anything with out money, and I'm only limiting myself a small budget for projects....anyways...it sucks. So the wife asked me a question in a tone just like the other questions she has asked me n the past...the important questions...like..when will you marry me, when will you get a dayjob, when will you get an education...etc...etc...etc...and normally, when she askes in that tone...then my future normally takes a 180 drgree turn for the better...This time she asked me if I'm going to stay and work for other people....or if I would work for myself for a change.
Looking at my education, I'm limited to be just an airframe and powerplant mechanic...with gobs of years for experiance. All I need next for anything for opening my own shop....is money, a lot of it, and a few more licences...such as me getting an inspection authority lic, and a private pilot, and possibly my commercial pilots lic. Due to my DUI almost 7 years ago...I screwed up everything for getting the flight licences....so I've been stuck on the ground. Ohh well, look where I got to in the last 4 years...so anyway, If we get back to work, then I can go ahead and use the companies dollars and get my flight licences and also use their name for the FBO (Feild Base of Operations) and I can ga ahead and get my IA licence...and then keep working there till I can get some cash stashed away in investment and get my credit rating back to par.
So whats next?.....
One of my pipe dreams a long time ago was to open and own my own FBO. Have customers fly their planes into my shop, I do their annual inspection, tear apart their plane, find problems wrong with it, fix them to their discretion, and put it together, go test fly it, and hand them back the key and get the money they owe me. A simple annual inspection can be anywhere from $2000 to $150,000...and takes from 2 days to a few weeks. The last few places that I worked at, was making a killing and always expanding. One FBO decided to go all the way, and they had their own flight training school, commuter service, and more planes than you can count...but...I got to start small, so I'm going to go ahead and just plan on finding me a hanger somewhere, get the loans to get all the tools needed, get the computers and forms, insurance, posisbly get a project plane to build, and try to set up my dream shop.
Loans...I can get some, financed and crap, pull a second mortgage for my house, beg the wifes father...etc..not really a problem if I work everything out right, but the real problem is deciding if I do it local to me, or semi-local...ie..a 30 minute commute, or just save and when I find something somewhere....to jump on it with a full bank account, and that would prolly be out of state...like in FL, or GA, or even in NM or TX area. And the wife finally met her new freinds, so she is set to live in CT, until they move, or they might come with us...who knows...but the plan is for me to get the licences I need, stop messing with cars, get a plane, open a shop, and go into bussiness for myself. IF I can find a huge place, where I can have an office, rec room, the shop, parking, maybe set up a small dyno(for cars) and tune and fab stuff when the plane customers are not there, then hire a few kids to help do the inspections, pay them decent enough to keep them happy, and offer the use of the shop during their off-hours...I think it might work.
Tommorrow I'm going to drive around to the local airports and ask some questions, hell, I might get lucky and find a shop where the owner would just sell me and I take over the lease...in my dreams...but I have heard of that happening. I found this one, it sounds interesting, but I doubt I'll get anything ready to make a bid on it....so I got to wait for something else to pop up. http://www.barnstormers.com/listing.php?id...ad6458968e0f492 but if I can just push myself to get the licences this year, then that will be a start. Besides, I did make a promise to my wife, that if she gets her drivers licence, then I will get my private pilots licence...and she got hers, so now I got to get mine...a promise is a promise...
Anyways, since the my life is dependant fully on work I can get from the company....and at times like this..I can't do anything. Sure I have time to build the cars, do work to the house, catch up on things...well...I really can't do anything with out money, and I'm only limiting myself a small budget for projects....anyways...it sucks. So the wife asked me a question in a tone just like the other questions she has asked me n the past...the important questions...like..when will you marry me, when will you get a dayjob, when will you get an education...etc...etc...etc...and normally, when she askes in that tone...then my future normally takes a 180 drgree turn for the better...This time she asked me if I'm going to stay and work for other people....or if I would work for myself for a change.
Looking at my education, I'm limited to be just an airframe and powerplant mechanic...with gobs of years for experiance. All I need next for anything for opening my own shop....is money, a lot of it, and a few more licences...such as me getting an inspection authority lic, and a private pilot, and possibly my commercial pilots lic. Due to my DUI almost 7 years ago...I screwed up everything for getting the flight licences....so I've been stuck on the ground. Ohh well, look where I got to in the last 4 years...so anyway, If we get back to work, then I can go ahead and use the companies dollars and get my flight licences and also use their name for the FBO (Feild Base of Operations) and I can ga ahead and get my IA licence...and then keep working there till I can get some cash stashed away in investment and get my credit rating back to par.
So whats next?.....
One of my pipe dreams a long time ago was to open and own my own FBO. Have customers fly their planes into my shop, I do their annual inspection, tear apart their plane, find problems wrong with it, fix them to their discretion, and put it together, go test fly it, and hand them back the key and get the money they owe me. A simple annual inspection can be anywhere from $2000 to $150,000...and takes from 2 days to a few weeks. The last few places that I worked at, was making a killing and always expanding. One FBO decided to go all the way, and they had their own flight training school, commuter service, and more planes than you can count...but...I got to start small, so I'm going to go ahead and just plan on finding me a hanger somewhere, get the loans to get all the tools needed, get the computers and forms, insurance, posisbly get a project plane to build, and try to set up my dream shop.
Loans...I can get some, financed and crap, pull a second mortgage for my house, beg the wifes father...etc..not really a problem if I work everything out right, but the real problem is deciding if I do it local to me, or semi-local...ie..a 30 minute commute, or just save and when I find something somewhere....to jump on it with a full bank account, and that would prolly be out of state...like in FL, or GA, or even in NM or TX area. And the wife finally met her new freinds, so she is set to live in CT, until they move, or they might come with us...who knows...but the plan is for me to get the licences I need, stop messing with cars, get a plane, open a shop, and go into bussiness for myself. IF I can find a huge place, where I can have an office, rec room, the shop, parking, maybe set up a small dyno(for cars) and tune and fab stuff when the plane customers are not there, then hire a few kids to help do the inspections, pay them decent enough to keep them happy, and offer the use of the shop during their off-hours...I think it might work.
Tommorrow I'm going to drive around to the local airports and ask some questions, hell, I might get lucky and find a shop where the owner would just sell me and I take over the lease...in my dreams...but I have heard of that happening. I found this one, it sounds interesting, but I doubt I'll get anything ready to make a bid on it....so I got to wait for something else to pop up. http://www.barnstormers.com/listing.php?id...ad6458968e0f492 but if I can just push myself to get the licences this year, then that will be a start. Besides, I did make a promise to my wife, that if she gets her drivers licence, then I will get my private pilots licence...and she got hers, so now I got to get mine...a promise is a promise...
