[Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time

[elle]

Actually 33 years, Slim...

You're making me feel old.... 

elle

--- Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brad,
> 
> The History Channel is playing "History of the Joke"
> hosted by Lewis Black
> and he's interviewing all these many comics on all
> the many aspects of
> comedy.  One of the segments referred to experience
> and they were talking to
> Penn and Teller.  Penn said that when you look at a
> pilot, the first thing
> you look at is his flight time hours.  He then
> equated his "flight time
> hours" as an important part of the success of a
> comedian.  Like anything
> else, experience is important.
> 
> So just for the hell of it I've tried to calculate
> my "hours."  I'm starting
> with my first full-time band that I joined when I
> was 25 years old.  I'm a
> music major grad and I'm in my first full-time
> professional music job.  Like
> you, I started performing for money when I was still
> a teenager--I'm not
> counting that.  I'm not counting my college gigs,
> not counting commuting
> time, not counting rehearsal time (biggie), I'm not
> counting break time, not
> even counting the few years I was a public shool
> teacher--just flight
> time--when I'm in the air and have control of the
> airplane.  In other words,
> on stage.  I haven't gone through all my years with
> a fine toothed comb and
> made any exact totals but in very round numbers I
> think I have about 25,000+
> full-time, professional hours of actual "flight
> time."
> 
> Now, for professionals like Elle, a teacher, her
> flight time hours will
> exceed that by many fold.  Give flight time hours a
> shot, Elle.  You
> probably teach 6 units a day, we're not including
> preps (sorry--I have more
> prep hours than anybody--I started "prepping" for my
> job at age 5.)  I know
> you put in more than 40 hours/ week but let's just
> start there.  40 X 4
> weeks is 160 hours a month times 8 months is 1280
> times (guessing) 30 years
> is 38,400 actual flight time hours.  Am I close?  I
> don't know if I'll catch
> up to you before I'm retired--or dead.
> 
> How many hours have you logged?
> 
> Slim
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