Teaching and helping means loving...
I thought I am going to send you a quick positive update....
For you who tried to stay in contact with me.... I have been struggling just to stay alive and watching my finances go to shit again and dealt with a boat load of other issues and I really didn't feel like talking at all.
Now that I am going to be flying again, all the work beyond my actual capacity during the last 4 years, especially in Chino.... has made sense and my depressions are gone since yesterday when I received the yes from my boss that he would help me regardless of his own benefit or not.
So, I am going to be the normal Olli from here on out again.
I hope that everyone of you has a chance to dig their way through the shit of life and find that passion back that we all have and that made us pilots.
Don't give up to ask others for help. Be blunt.
Without outside help nobody on this planet can make it far.
For the rest of my life now, I will work towards one goal and that is to get into a position to be able to help others and to enable them to help others too then. I am a teacher and I will always be a teacher... We all are teachers if you really look at it right. There are always people who need help to be taught to become better at something. That is the opposite of hate and selfish materialistic lives. Teaching means giving and enabling others loving others.
I will put this on my blog which I abandoned for a while now, because I was just too depressed.
Ok, here is the update that I wrote for you.
As you know due to the job loss, I have been well I guess we all have been fighting with severe depressions for the last 7 months. But I kept on crawling forward in the right direction to meet the right people who are in a position to help me to prevent my story from coming to a pitiful end....
I came to finally make a decision yesterday.
Since my boss (Ben) had offered me to pay for my instrument license from the beginning and I could pay him back later, I ask him yesterday if that offer would still be good even if I would end up leaving and working for another operator and pay off my debt from there.
I had declined his offer initially, since I didn't want to end up owing money to my boss. He is my boss and not my friend after all.
But I realized that if I wouldn't accept his offer then I would never make it out of this hole I am stuck in right now with my life. This is my only chance I have to not drown and lose my career and myself... because I don't have the option to just do anything in life and be happy...
With my instrument rating I can get jobs that require 500 hours and an instrument rating like second in command positions and move up from there. I also have a chance to get hired by one of the off shore operators which always require an instrument license, well and more hours of course. That was the missing link.
Another option is to fly in India or in Dubai, but I need an instrument license for any of those opportunities. I have a friend who flies in India right now and he says that it is awesome.
I met an airline pilot, who has projects in India to help the kids in the slums. She showed me how much of a difference one can make with only a bit of engagement, and how much happiness and peace one can bring with such little money that it should be embarrassing for us western folks.
I am going to start my engagement right now and will research what options I have to be able to help there more as a pilot in the future.
I don't want to only live for myself... I have to help other people. That makes me happy.
Of course that is a long term idea. Maybe I can buy a helicopter some day and deploy it and myself as the pilot to develop the slums.
I am going to become a sponsor for at least one kid already who then can go to school then and learn for its life and help itself some day. Without that help they will die.
The good thing this time is... that I can be certain that this help will actually reach the kid. The pilot is so engaged and has so many of her own projects going on in the slums there, that I can trust her that my money will actually enable one or more kids to have a chance in life.
It is a funny coincidence that my friend who I mentioned above flies in India now too. He makes a ton of money and suggested to take (my bosses offer) from the beginning and advance in my career and become financially stable.
We will see how everything will pan out... At first I will have to travel to India myself in a year or so to see it with my own eyes.
I am starting to pay $25 per month right now to enable a kid to get their life in order and to learn in school to eventually be able to help itself some day. It is unbelievable how much of a difference I can make to those kids. If I don't help them, then they have to die a pathetic and senseless death.
When I help them to educate themselves, then we slowly can turn this hell around and make this land a good ground for humans who then can help others again.
I am very excited to be able to help although I am still struggling myself.
Since yesterday, I feel like a human again and I am happy about every step I took after Silverstate went down. It was a step in the unknown and nothing was predictable. But again, one thing led to another and I found a person who is willing to help me beyond the normal measures. Isn't it unbelievable that my boss would do something like that for me? He doesn't gain any benefit from it.
Who knows, maybe if I have my instrument rating, I might add my double II and end up flying for my boss here in Hawaii for a while after all.
So long...
Olli
Oliver Hanisch
Certified Flight Instructor / Advanced Ground Instructor
Mauna Loa Helicopters Honolulu Office
90 Nakolo Pl. Suite 2
Honolulu, HI 96819
808 834 6799
Cell: 310 980 6330
oliver@maunaloahelicopters.com
