Gloria Kollosch:  

Well I've been asked for my story since school and here it is...... After school I joined the Navy, it seemed like I was always a day late or my father made a dollar too much for a scholarship so not wanting to work for Taco Bell (no offense to those that did) I figured that I could get my education in another way so I joined up. It seems like I always lucked into things......like after picking out several careers in the service I got Air Traffic Control School after another applicant failed their physical. When it came time for my discharge I had the option of re-enlisting (which I almost did) but the President fired the striking controllers in 1981 a couple of months before I signed up for another tour. Decision made....I got out and worked for the FAA. I worked first at Ft. Lauderdale Int'l for 12 years and Daytona Beach Tracon for the next 13. I retired in 2007, 1 year after the FAA forced a set of imposed work rules on the workforce. What had been a fun job became a ch...Expand for more