I started flying airplanes when I was eighteen years old after acquiring my drivers license at seventeen. I attained a Canadian Commercial Fixed Wing license then decided I needed to return to my real love. Helicopters. The remind me of humming birds, hovering and wizzing away in all directions. 

My career has been sinuous. When I was hired by my first company they merged with a larger one and then promptly laid off the pilots they hired last. I had no other tangible skill other than flying a multi million dollar hunk of metal and remained unemployed for nine tedious months with a loan to repay. I used that experience to propel me forward and learnt hard but valuable lessons along the way. A few decades later I still get excited when I see helicopters in the air and I think to myself “I can do that.”