30 November 2012 ~ THEN AND NOW; A TURN OF EVENTS

30 November 2012 ~ THEN AND NOW; A TURN OF EVENTS

 

 

 

My commitment was to post two blogs a month.  Here we are on 30 November 2012 and I haven’t posted one yet! It has been an incredibly busy month for me, work-wise, and there hasn’t been a free ‘moment’ to focus on my blog posts. So I am going to cheat a little. My commitment was to ‘post’ two blogs a month… not necessarily ‘write’ two blogs a month! So my first post is from some of my old ‘Notes’ that I wrote before I really went public with my writings in this blog; however I did add a comment or two here and there in this 'Then and now...'!

This was written last year.  It is interesting how things have turned out since then!

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New Beginnings ~ Part 2;  Written on Monday 19 September 2011

After ten+ years with my airline (Air Ontario, Air Canada Regional, Air Canada Jazz, Jazz Air, Jazz Aviation --- and all that Jazz!) another ‘New Beginning’ awaits.  My time as a technical instructor in aircraft maintenance with Air Canada Jazz is coming to a close.  Another opportunity has come my way that will allow me to continue doing what I love best; training.  But it will also afford me a chance to build, improve and grow as an instructor

Fond memories of what was at Air Canada Jazz, and excitement for what will be.  Watch out world; Freeman is taking his training expertise global!!!

Texo ~ Amplexus ~ Crescere

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The bottom line is that things did not work out as I was led to believe; but you can read all about that in my blog titled ‘THE VIEW; OTHER-SIDE, INSIDE-OUT OR OUTSIDE-IN’ because that, as diplomatically as I could, sums up the events that took place when I left a great job, with great people and a great boss, to take on a more ambitious challenge.  And it proved to be challenging in more ways than one.  Perhaps someday I will write more about the events that transpired between October 2011 and April 2012, but now is not the time.  I will write about it when the time is right.

So, since I wrote those exiting words back on 19 September 2011, a lot has changed.  I am now very happy with the path my career has taken and I am amazed at what I have found out that I can do.  The following is another one of my ‘Notes’ that was written shortly after the one above.

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Last Day at the Airline; Written on Friday 30 September 2011

Yup; Laptop handed in.  Keys handed in.  Security Passes handed in.  Today is the first time I have left the building without all of the above - - and the last time I will leave the building as an employee.  Next week the new beginning starts; still as an aircraft maintenance instructor.

Things I have learned during my eleven years with the airline; nine of them as an instructor:
 

• I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

• I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
 

• I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
 

• I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
 

• I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
   

• I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
 

• I've learned that you can keep going long after you think you can't.
 

• I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
 

• I've learned that writing helps me to ease my emotional pains.
 

• I've learned that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

 

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can" ~~~ Thomas Carlyle

"Onwards and upwards" ~~~ Paul Freeman

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Regarding that last bullet above; I’m getting there.  But now I believe that ‘there’ is not a destination; it is a journey.  I'm a travellin' man...