Karl Myers:  

Retired from 30-year management career at Sea-Tac International Airport in 2003. Happy not to accept employment since then! Long-term relationship with a psychotherapist (no, not mine!) resulted in marriage in late 2005. Her daughter produced two grandkids, now 8 and almost 6. School Resisting direction from teachers and having no career plan when in high school, I just barely graduated (1.78 GPA after 5 semesters, and my last semester didn't raise it much!). My dad had a small airplane and got me interested in flying during my senior year. I did well at flying, getting my private pilot license before beginning college. College Despite my poor high school grades, I was able to get into the aerospace technology program at Metropolitan State College. In my first quarter/semester at Metro, I doubled my GPA to 3.625 with, obviously, a lot of studying to overcome bad (or few!) high school study habits. While there, I also earned my commercial pilot license and instrument rating. After two-plus years of good grades, I decided to transfer to the well-respected aeronautical technology program in the Engineering College at Arizona State University with the plan of becoming an airline pilot. After about another ye...Expand for more