Man Enough Organization

I sent my son to flight school when he was seventeen years old. He was always pretty outdoorsy and wanted to learn to fly. So, this specialty program seemed like a great place for him. He worked hard, running for miles a day and getting in shape as part of the program’s military style training. Then, after a month or two, he got to touch his first airplane. Now, he didn’t get to learn to fly immediately, but he did have to sand every plane in the hanger. He and the other guys were out there for 6 hours a day using chemicals and muscle-power to strip the paint off old aircrafts. Then, they got to repaint them all. A few months later, he reported that he was in training to be a flight mechanic. He was learning all sorts of new things about the engine, especially since he was the smallest boy out there and was more able to fit his hands into the engine than anyone else! But there were still days when he had to sand. Soon, he knew how to rebuild an engine, do aircraft instrument repair, and even fly. But what does he do now that he’s almost thirty? He’s an IT guy for a large computer company and he refuses to ever sand anything again. Sometimes a person can get too much of a good thing.