On 2/20/2012 I’ll have been writing in this blog for five years. I started adventure.58victor.com to come up to speed with Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS2007). At that time I owned a cloud computing business that I ran out of the Verizon Datacenter in Elmsford New York.
According to Microsoft- MOSS2007 was going to be a big seller in cloud computing and would complement our existing Hosted Exchange offering. At that time I was still deluding myself that the downturn in technology after the Y2K/DotCom crash was “just about over” and a wealth of new business was right around the corner that would keep me in airplanes and avgas like the good old days.
In 2008 I made another transition, the flight instructing that I was providing for a few aircraft owners on the side became more frequent. There were many weeks where I would bill more hours instructing then I did on my day job. The money flight instructing was a third of my bill rate as a technical project manager but I wasn’t getting much of that work and when I did it was unbearable. Managing projects across large geographies with incredibly short schedules and questionable resources isn’t something I relish so when I received a contract offer from a financial services company in lower Manhattan where the bill rate was only slightly higher than what I got paid as a CFII I declined.
I sweat this decision out until my wife Judy told me she like the flight instructor a whole lot more than the crazy man who works in the city and commutes five and a half hours a day. Anything to keep the bride happy.
In 2010 I opened Motion Simulations (http://www.fullmotionflight.com/) and I’ve been flight instructing full time. I still keep the 58victor site up to date with my observations, although I just changed it over from SharePoint to Google’s Blogger. Five years of talking about flying, Cross Country, IFR, in little airplanes. What's not to like.
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