Being a pilot has been a life goal since childhood, but my primary career for 42 enjoyable years was as a U.S. and international secondary-level teacher, primarily of French.
While a junior and senior at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, I worked part-time washing dishes in The Little Chef café, just a block from where I lived across the street from the campus.
A woman who worked in the university job placement center often came to the café for lunch and, over a period of time, we became good acquaintances. Near the end of my senior year, she said, “Jim, when you get ready to graduate, come to my office and we’ll talk about your plans.”
What plans? I didn’t have any. Being a teacher ranked far behind a pilot, but she told me, “I know the principal of Lesher Junior High [School] in Fort Collins. If you like, I’ll arrange an interview for you.”
The “interview” was hardly worthy of the name. The principal, his assistant, and I just had a friendly, get-acquainted chat for a short while. I kept wondering when the job interview would begin when the principal said of the woman from the placement office, “Well, anybody she recommends, I’ll hire.” And so I had my first job. The others during my long career were mostly just as easy to obtain, pretty much “on a silver platter.”
Besides teaching in Fort Collins, a favorite pastime was flying as…
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