To all you Chicken Littles out there...

If you see what looks like fire and brimstone falling from heaven, don't worry, its just me at work. My official first day at Falwell Aviation is Saturday. There are two airports that Falwell Aviation owns/manages. The first is the place I did the interview today and will work Saturday - Falwell Airport. It is extremely small...as in you take a tiny dirt road from the main highway to the particle-board hangar office. I'm surprised the single runway that they have isn't dirt also. The other strip is much larger and fancier, I'm told. The interviewer called it the "jet center". It is where most of the big-business clients fly out of for their cross-country meetings. Falwell Airport is mainly used for flight instruction and for private pilots.

I was informed that I would be doing everything from opening the offices, to scheduling flights, to prepping and fueling the planes. Basically, everything besides actually flying the planes! Now, you would think that some of those responsibilities would require some kind of trade school certification at least, but apparently you can be hired off the street. In fact, some guy walked in after my interview and simply asked, "Uh, can I have a job?" He was promptly taken into the same office that I just came out of. Scary stuff!

So the next time you're sitting in a plane, getting ready for takeoff, and you see those guys running up to the planes with fuel hoses and other complicated looking apparatus, just think...any one of them could've been serving you your fries at McDonald's a month prior!!