Saundra Luke-johnson

Westside High School

Class of 1989

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Saundra Luke-johnson - Class of 1989 - Westside High School

First Name	Saundra
Last Name	Luke-johnson
Graduation Year	Class of 1989
Gender	Female
Hometown	Augusta, Georgia
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	I love life..especially MINE!!! What is it like to be an AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER by Matthew Murray on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 8:09am The job often sucks Even for those of us who love it We are not appreciated by anyone outside of our profession We hold more lives in our hands in one average shift than a medical doctor does in his whole career Pilots don't understand us or even listen sometimes but they rely on us to save their asses when they need us and will probably never say thank you Everything we say is recorded We have to be prepared to defend every word we say in a court of law should the unthinkable happen We are responsible for knowing more rules than humanly possible Those rules are subject to daily change We can't imagine doing any other job We carry around in our heads the equivalent amount of data as the average metropolitan phone book We don't have time to look anything up We aren't allowed to make mistakes We don't have a God complex We are Gods We receive more training than physicians We can't make our "clients" wait in a waiting room until we're ready for them We are always in control We control everything in our environment This affects our personal life in ways that a non-controller cannot fathom Our spouses will never understand us or what we do We can't bring the job home But it is always with us We all have crash dreams We will control traffic in our sleep We never have to worry about a foot-high inbox when we come into work We can't put an airplane back in the inbox to deal with later We take extreme pride in the quality of our work, no matter how negatively the FAA, the media and some politicians portray us No, you can not imagine the stress We aren't able to tolerate a read-back error at a drive thru restaurant Indecision is unacceptable in any scenario We didn't invent the "Mooney spike" but we see the effects of it every day We don't get bathroom breaks whenever we need them We learn to hold it until we get a break There is always something that needs to be done right now We have a lack of tolerance for miscommunication We get grumpy when we don't have enough airplanes to keep us busy We get grumpy when we have too many We are the only ones who know where we draw this invisible line between the two We love gallows humor When we retire, we will seek out, socialize with, and keep close friendships with other controllers They are still the only people who come close to understanding us or are willing to put up with us We get to retire "early" But most of us wont live more than ten years after retirement We expect people to say what they mean and mean what they say Everything in life is either black or white there is no gray We can drink a hotel bar dry in about two hours. We use anticipated separation when we drive We can't understand people who don't know how to calculate speed differences to hit gaps on the highway There is something "off" about ALL of us We all want children to have "normal" lives and "normal" jobs But we are so proud when they choose to become controllers themselves We are not allowed to treat our depression or anxiety with FDA-approved medicine Or even admit out loud that we suffer from either We will lose our jobs if we do But we can drink our weight in Jim Beam As long as we are at least 8 hours from our next shift Most of us look 10 yrs older than our age and act 10 yrs younger We know all the different variations of the word "stress" We are drawn to extremely dangerous pastimes We will eventually be on blood pressure medication We don't know what normal sleep patterns are We're not allowed to use sleep aids We work in the middle of the night and on Christmas and weekends and your birthday We will never have "normal" days off We will never have a regular social life We can't participate in our kids' school activities We know that our worth isn't reflected by our position in the FAA or our rank in the military A newly-checked out controller who can move metal will always have more of our respect than a member of management or a highly ranked officer who can't separate two flies with a screen door Our friends won't understand that we can't just leave work or get off work or stop thinking about work We are not "Disney-friendly" People think that we are the guys on the ramp with the flashlights and that we get to fly for free We make more money than you do But you have the house and the cars and the vacation home and the time with your family We have the clothes, the watch, the sunglasses and the attitude We are fluent in three languages: English, Acronyms and Cursing We speak all three simultaneously and loudly We don't say "goodbye" when we hang up the phone, we give our operating initials Controller candy comes in two flavors: TUMS and Ibuprofen. When a cold or flu strikes we just suck it up 'cause we can't take otc cold medication without being medically disqualified We are brutally, ridiculously, ruthlessly hard on each other We have thick skin We will be the last person a pilot talks to on this earth We will hear the terror in his voice We will calmly use every tool we have to bring him down safely We will hear his screams when we can't We will never forget it We will relive it again and again We will go right back to work the next day and do it again We aren't allowed to cry When one of us fails we will laugh at him When one of us succeeds we won't acknowledge it We don't have time to pat ourselves or...(read more)