[Rhodes22-list] Brad--Flight Time

[elle]

Oh, man, you're right, Hank...Sept through third week
of June in our NoVa county.

Help...I've fallen & I can't get up...

elle


--- Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slim,
> 
> Where did you go to school that you only went 8
> months?  Here in
> Maryland it is almost 10 months that are kids are in
> school.
> 
> Hank
> 
> On 2/19/08, 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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