GoldenRivet
12-27-11, 03:38 AM
tell us about your 2011
i'll start
January - March 2011
Still working as a contract pilot trying to make ends meet and having little luck. Started working on a new contract for pilot services for an oil and gas company chartering flights in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas and occasional gulf coast states eastward... deal promptly falls through leaving me unemployed as many aviation gigs have in the past.
April 2011
Approached by friend about the possibility of working as a catastrophe insurance adjuster. Discuss the situation and begin certification to that end. have no idea what i was getting myself into.
May 2011
Adjuster certification achieved, received first deployment orders for training in 2-story steep roof inspections for hail and wind damage insurance claims over the next 45 days.
June 1st-5th 2011
continued working in training, pay is unreal compared to what i have been used to... get divorced.
July 1st-12th 2011
Training has been completed since late June, awaiting initial deployment orders to work as a full time catastrophe claims adjuster handling my own claims. meet cute girl.
July 17th 2011
Receive deployment orders to head to Cleveland Ohio to work hail claims, load up truck and inform the cute girlfriend who promptly drops everything and tags along.
July 19th 2011
Arrive in Cleveland Ohio where i am informed that there are no hail claims, instead i will be working basements flooded with sewage.
August 20-25 2011
Still in Cleveland living in an extended stay hotel, contract walking-pneumonia from the 20th to the 25th, go to hospital twice, receive 5 IV fluid packs and 2 chest x-rays. get released on the 25th to return home to Texas. By the 25th im almost fully recovered plan to leave first thing in the morning on the 27th.
Receive call as i am pulling out of the hotel parking lot on August 27th requesting that i report to Frederich Maryland to work hurricane claims. reprogram GPS and head east.
August 30th - October 25th 2011
Receive assignment to report to Newark, New Jersey :shifty: to work hurricane claims as the lead adjuster on a 2-story steep roof inspection team. work my arse off... decide that there is nothing i like about New Jersey.
October 26th 2011
point the truck at Texas and mash gas peddle to the floor, stop for 2 hours to "rest" in Central Tennessee, Arrive in Texas the afternoon of October 27th
October 28 - Present
relax, smoke cigars, drink, watch TV, play games, dive headlong into the BDSM subculture and fornicate... mostly fornicate though.
also Thanksgiving and Christmas happened.
yeah :doh:
i'll start
January - March 2011
Still working as a contract pilot trying to make ends meet and having little luck. Started working on a new contract for pilot services for an oil and gas company chartering flights in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas and occasional gulf coast states eastward... deal promptly falls through leaving me unemployed as many aviation gigs have in the past.
April 2011
Approached by friend about the possibility of working as a catastrophe insurance adjuster. Discuss the situation and begin certification to that end. have no idea what i was getting myself into.
May 2011
Adjuster certification achieved, received first deployment orders for training in 2-story steep roof inspections for hail and wind damage insurance claims over the next 45 days.
June 1st-5th 2011
continued working in training, pay is unreal compared to what i have been used to... get divorced.
July 1st-12th 2011
Training has been completed since late June, awaiting initial deployment orders to work as a full time catastrophe claims adjuster handling my own claims. meet cute girl.
July 17th 2011
Receive deployment orders to head to Cleveland Ohio to work hail claims, load up truck and inform the cute girlfriend who promptly drops everything and tags along.
July 19th 2011
Arrive in Cleveland Ohio where i am informed that there are no hail claims, instead i will be working basements flooded with sewage.
August 20-25 2011
Still in Cleveland living in an extended stay hotel, contract walking-pneumonia from the 20th to the 25th, go to hospital twice, receive 5 IV fluid packs and 2 chest x-rays. get released on the 25th to return home to Texas. By the 25th im almost fully recovered plan to leave first thing in the morning on the 27th.
Receive call as i am pulling out of the hotel parking lot on August 27th requesting that i report to Frederich Maryland to work hurricane claims. reprogram GPS and head east.
August 30th - October 25th 2011
Receive assignment to report to Newark, New Jersey :shifty: to work hurricane claims as the lead adjuster on a 2-story steep roof inspection team. work my arse off... decide that there is nothing i like about New Jersey.
October 26th 2011
point the truck at Texas and mash gas peddle to the floor, stop for 2 hours to "rest" in Central Tennessee, Arrive in Texas the afternoon of October 27th
October 28 - Present
relax, smoke cigars, drink, watch TV, play games, dive headlong into the BDSM subculture and fornicate... mostly fornicate though.
also Thanksgiving and Christmas happened.
yeah :doh: