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I’ve been doing a lot of searching, internally.  I’m trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.  I’ve spent the last 11 years as a cop, and before that I was pretty much in a retail and sales stall.  Other then that, I have no real skills.  I also have no real education, so it makes the job search that much more complicated.

I recognize that I’m destined at this rate to either get back into physical shape and try and be a cop elsewhere, the though of which I dread.  OR, I’m left asking if you want fries with that.  I’ve been contemplating going back to school, but I’ve been wracking my brain to try and figure out what to study.  I like photography, but that’s a very difficult “career” choice.  While it would be nice to be able to take pretty pictures and make a living selling them, the reality is that most people that major in photography are destined to either teach photography or work at Glamor Shots.  Neither sounds appealing.

I’m mathematically retarded so Finance, Accounting, Business, they’re all out of the question.  As is science, biology, chemistry and the like.  I’m knowledgeable in computers at just slightly over standard user level.  But After the last 2+ years as a detective stuck behind a computer screen, I’d probably kill myself if I had to do this the rest of my life.  So Computer engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Aided Drafting, CAD operator, Web Design, all that is shot.  My options are dwindling.

I get bored easily.  I can’t do the mundane.  I’m not a switch flipper and lever puller.  I get antsy and I want to do new things.  After a while of been there done that I’m ready to move on to something different.  This makes making a decision on a degree field is damn near impossible.  I figure that I’m either going to job hop for the rest of my life or I’d have to rob a bank to have money to start my own business.

Then the other day I was watching one of my favorite TV shows, Flying Wild Alaska, when it hit me.  Every single time I watch that show I catch myself saying, “I wish I could do that.”  Now I’m like, “Why can’t I?”  My father got his pilots license at around my age.  One of the guys that used to be a reserve officer at the Sheriff’s Office got his license and now flies Lear Jets for a living.  Why can’t I?  That sounds sounds so exciting.

So I started looking, and Denver seems to be a MECCA for Aviation Schools.  Then I came across the Metropolitan College of Denver.  They have a Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science and they offer a degree for a Commercial Pilot.  It’s the first thing that I can think of in a long time where I though, I could really do that.  Not be an airline pilot per se, but commercial.  Like charter flights, or cargo planes like UPS, or even these small planes like in FWA.

Maybe even go to Alaska and have an adventure or two.  I’m going to check out the school when I visit in December.

I’m kinda excited about this actually.