[Rhodes22-list] College Funding

Steve rhodes2282 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 10 15:53:59 EDT 2004


I paid for my owe college too, Brad.  That what puts
good old common sences in a person.  

What wrong with today generation is that everything is
given to them.  They don't know the value of a dollar
or anything else. When this country goes bankrupt from
welfare programs, the terrorist have taken over most
of this country - I wonder what the liberals will say
about that:-)
Steve


--- brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:

> To All,
> 
> Since we're telling college funding war stories I'll
> tell mine.  I worked as an apprentice aircraft
> mechanic all through high school and the original
> program was to finish my apprenticeship (about 6
> more
> months) after graduation, and pay my way through
> school.  The very next day after graduation I lipped
> off to my mother something about how unfair it was
> to
> have been raised in such a small backward
> "one-horse"
> town and she sweetly replied, "Son, I'm sorry, your
> father and I bought you the wrong gift.  You don't
> need a watch, you know what time it is, what you
> need
> is a suitcase".  Two weeks later I was working in
> "The
> City", Decatur, IL,(about 90,000) at a larger shop
> and
> on my own.  In the meantime I turned 18, got my
> Commercial Pilot license, Instrument Rating, and
> finished the Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic
> apprenticeship.  I'd attended classes three days at
> Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville (SIU-E)
> when I learned that a local company was moving their
> corporate headquarters to Waco, TX and the pilot
> wasn't moving.  I knew the CEO and convinced him to
> hire me because I'd worked on the plane for two
> years
> (it sure wasn't based on my vast experience as a
> pilot). He let me use the plane while I was there to
> get my Flight Instructor and Instrument &
> Multi-engine
> Instructor ratings.  After a year in Waco I was
> ready
> to start college again and returned to Illinois,
> this
> time to SIU-Carbondale where I'd been promised a job
> flight instructing.  After finding a mobile home for
> rent near the airport and signing up for classes, I
> report for duty only to be told that "times are
> hard,
> money's tight, etc.".  Before I could even get a
> good
> pity party going my Dad called to say Mom had some
> serious health problems, had to quit her job, and
> they
> were sorry they couldn't help.  Out with some
> friends
> to drown my sorrows I ran into twin brothers from a
> wealthy Chicago suburb that had been given a Cessna
> 150 by their parents.  We got the bright idea that
> they'd rent the plane to me and I'd start my own
> flight school.  I put flyers all over campus and by
> the end of the week the phone was ringing off the
> wall.  Business was so good that the company that
> offered me a job (and then didn't) along with the
> University's own flight school sicked the FAA and
> the
> airport authority on me to try and shut it down.  It
> didn't matter because as soon as the bills for the
> extra fuel and maintenance found their way to
> Chicago
> it got shut down anyway.  By then I had enough money
> to make it through the semester.
> 
> A pilot friend of mine from Waco asked me to come
> after finals and take over his student load so he
> could take two weeks off.  I headed out for Texas in
> my Opal Manta, great little car that would go 97 mph
> downwind.  After five hours driving through cotton
> and
> bean fields I stopped in Benton, Arkansas because 1
> -
> I needed gas and 2 - I couldn't see out the
> windshield.  An old man was cleaning the windshield
> while the gas was pumping and he started a
> conversation.
> 
> "Where you headed son?
> 
> "Texas"
> 
> "Better slow er down goin through Arkladelphia boy,
> the fuzz has got the radar out"
> 
> "Oh that's OK sir, I've been driving the speed limit
> all day!"
> 
> He stopped what he was doing mid-squigee and looked
> me
> in the eye.
> 
> "Son, I've been scraping bugs offa windshields for
> thirty years.  They just don't splatter like that at
> 55".
> 
> I laughed the rest of the way to Waco and vowed to
> myself that I'd always have enough education and job
> skills to never develop into a bug splatter expert.
> 
> Six years, two universities, several jobs, and ten
> years of student loan payments later I got a BS in
> Accounting.  The rest is history.
> 
> Now my boys go to college on the "My dad's an
> airline
> pilot, life is good, lets party!" college fund and
> the
> oldest is voting for Kerry.
> 
> Go Figure.
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> 
> 
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