THis Hobby is Doing Funny Things to me...
 

You know ever since i've been flying R/C (4+years) non stop, All I do is think about flying even at work.Even on rainy days, pretty much everyday..be nice if I could make a honest living off this hobby...

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Don't we all!!!! :D I do that too....in fact, it has me thinking...AGAIN, about getting my private license.

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Trust me on this one, that would probably be the WORST thing to every happen to you if it did. Iknow first hand about this. I've been involved with computers for over 30 years, most of that as a hobby. But when Igot out of the Army in 1996 Idecided to make a living out of it and opened a computer shop. I've been doing that for 14 years now and trust me when I say this, Iwill get as far away from computers whenever possible. Iwant nothing to do with them whenever Ican get away with it.

When you take your hobby and make it a job it's no longer a "get away" for you. Now flying is so great because it's what you WANTto do for fun. But when you start to HAVEto do it for work you attitude will more than likely change about it.

Just my 2¢ worth!!

Ken

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HECK!!!!! This hobby don't affect, don't affect, don't affect, don't affect me.:D:D

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HA!!! Me too! It's all I think about! Everyday, every hour, every minute. Wife says I have an addiction problem. I tell her that I have no problem with my addiction, she has the problem with my addiction. :D Got yelled at night before last for spending too much money. Oh well, like my Dad once told me "women will do one of two things, they'll either get over it or they won't get over it". All my life I've been looking for that one thing to master, and this is it! Wouldn't have it any other way. I can't explain it, but I get allot of enjoyment out of this hobby. Helps keep me relaxed and focused. I guess it's relaxing and challlenging, both at the same time.

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Hi. My name is Jim. I'm an R/C Addict. The best thing is that I don't have to attend meetings.

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What you don't have meetings at the flying field???? I go to those meeting 2-3 times a week.

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my wife never had a problem with RCplanes... until Ibought the first one!

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Yeah this hobby is great i love taking a box of misc sticks and making it into somthing nice and! flyable, I'm a police officer and this hobby keeps me sane and insane for r/c and yep the wife is always telling me "you spend too much time and money on those "toys" I normally would explain to her these are not toys..but we both know she wouldnt understand lol

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Are we married to the same woman???:):)

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Ihope not! hahahaha

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You sir, Are very correct!!

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Ive been a RC addict since I was a kid and got into airplanes about 13 or so years ago. Im lucky that my wife is understanding and realises that designing, building and flying is in my blood. And that RC airplanes can be low cost compared to other hobbies out there.
Funny thing is she calls RCU airplane porn. As Im always ogling over something RC related.
Cheers.

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I do agree with her that our planes are "toys," and I will definitely say I love playing with my toys.

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HI JIM!!!!
:D

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Only because you don't WANT to recover. :)

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lol. RCAA is for quitters.

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Bahahahahahah!:D

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There is much truth in this. I've been flying full scale for 11 years - though fairly new to RC - and decided to make it a career about 3 years ago. Had a fairly good run at it, got laid off, etc. I must say, however, that even in the fairly short period of time I was flying (900 hours a year), it began to lose some of its luster.

Now that I've been laid off for nearly a year, my mind is playing tricks on me and I've even gone so far as to download some applications for another job (though few outfits are hiring right now). But, if I think back to what I actually did it and read back some of the things I experienced along the way, I'd nearly rather not having anything to do with it in a professional capacity anymore. The "have to" about it, scheduling conflicts, FAA showing up to stare over our shoulders, ferry flights at the end of a long day leading into the wee hours of the morning, etc.

That is why I am working on finishing my CPA license. I figure that way I can be home every night (impossible as a pilot), raise a family, and make enough money to fly full scale when I want and fly R/C.

If you shoot a guy to the moon enough times, he'll long for something else after a while.

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you say his like we're suppose to think about other things, or even WANT to for that matter:D

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this is very true ray! theres nothing better than flying on a nice cool fall day in NC

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I agree, I really like what somebody else said in another forum. "A bad day of flying still beats a good day at work"

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Im there with you guys.

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I can completely agree with Ken on this one. I was the BIGGEST computer geek, gamer (Team Fortress Classic!), hacker in north central Montana. I played with computers whenever I could. Now that it's a job, (going on 9 years), I just do these forums and email and my billing now. Thank God I discovered model airplanes back in 2002. I don't know what I would've done with my spare time. I probably would've ended up a barfly or taking up something non RC...like golf. I used to do that too, but now if it's nice enough to golf, it's nice to fly, so off to the field I go!

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I too am addicted. hahah, I honestly think if you are at all interested in aviation, this hobby WILL get ya! My girlfriend ALWAYS knows what I'm doing if she sees me with the laptop, "are you on that rcu place?" I've been sick for a month now, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis last year and am in my second real bad flair up... if anyone else knows about this disease... it's NO fun, so I've been on the couch for a MONTH and finally got fs one downloaded on moms laptop as mines broken!?!? so finally getting my flying fix! But I hate not being able to get out and fly my damn planes, I hope my batteries are all still in good shape!?

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and you better beleive that first day I am feeling good enough, whether its 40 degrees or 70 degrees, I'm packin up the planes and having a full day of flying