{"id":297082,"date":"2017-03-01T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/your-path-forward\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:02:07","slug":"your-path-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/your-path-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Path Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hello ladies and gentlemen. I am Tim McGraw. I\u2019m a retired seaplane mechanic. I have a still current Airframe and Powerplant license from the Federal Aviation Administration, and for a few years I also was issued an Inspection Authorization license from the FAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">I earned my Airframe &amp; Powerplant license by going to night school for two years in Seattle, Washington in the mid 1970\u2019s when I was in my twenties. Us students had to punch in to a time clock five nights a week for five hours a night for four semesters a year. It was like going to a job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">After earning my licenses I went to work at Kenmore Air Harbor which is the largest seaplane base in the world and located at the north end of Lake Washington north of Seattle. While working there I also self studied to pass the exams to get my Inspector Authorization license.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/silver-bullion-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=silverprices\">Current Prices on popular forms of Silver Bullion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">After working at KAH I went on to work as a freelance aircraft mechanic for fifteen years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">These are my credentials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Now, let\u2019s talk about you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">What do you want out of being a mechanic? Do you want money enough for a decent living? Do you want the satisfaction of working with your hands? Do you want a skilled job that gives you respect? Do you just like working with machines?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or all of the above?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is possible now for you to have all of the above. Mechanics like myself are retiring in droves and most youth don\u2019t want to become mechanics, welders, electricians, plumbers,\u2026 Mike Rowe of the Discovery Channel show \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d would tell you of the shortage of up and coming skilled blue collar workers. He\u2019d also tell you that a welder in the oil fields of North Dakota can make over $150,000 per year working freelance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">So how do you attain that situation and income?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">First you have to&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/03\/tim-mcgraw\/path-forward\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello ladies and gentlemen. I am Tim McGraw. I\u2019m a retired seaplane mechanic. I have a still current Airframe and Powerplant license from the Federal Aviation Administration, and for a few years I also was issued an Inspection Authorization license from the FAA. I earned my Airframe &amp; Powerplant license by going to night school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-297082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}