Carlotta Schmittgen:  

Back in 1974, I was hired on as a Flight Attendant for Delta Air Lines. It didn’t take me long to mesh my love of sports with my job. In my first year of flying, I worked an AJ Foyt charter to the Indy 500 and got to go to the race. It was then I discovered there was more to car racing than my little brother going go-carting. While based in Houston, I became a hockey fan while laying over in Portland, Maine which was home to one of the Philadelphia Flyers farm teams. I also worked several flights for the Houston Aeros hockey team. Later in my career, I was a regular on the Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox charters. In addition, I worked ones for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees and LA Dodgers. When my Supervisor tried to woo me into Management, I delayed the move for one year as I would have to give up charter flying. I did finally put my feet on the ground my last 8 years with Delta. I retired and relocated to the Texas Hill Country after a career with Delta Air Lines spanning over 30 years. I held as many “jobs” as the number of years we lived there — worked at a camp, receptionist in a travel center, meet and greet at a fitness center, assisted two VPs at an airplane manufacturer (and where my husband worked on the assembly line which built a turbo-prop for NASCAR champion Matt Kenseth), database management for a home plans designer, updated “back door” websites for several organizations and On-Air “Side-Kick”/Sportscaster for a radio station. I organized the first Bark For Life in Texas, a canine fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and chaired the event for the several years. In my spare€ time, one of my dogs and I volunteered doing Canine Literacy at an elementary school, Canine Education at preschools and visi...Expand for more