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Thanks for all the info. It wasn't an easy choice, but if I broke a bone on a rough landing or something, I would have been screwed forever with medical bills. Thanks again.

I finished my AFF jump 7 in September. After that I was supposed to be able to jump with out an instructor, just have to bring a coach here and there to accomplish certain objectives on my yellow card. I don't know if this program is necessarily AFF or AFP or what. Well I switched jobs and did not have health insurance for a while, so I was forced to take a break from jumping. I have health insurance again, and come April, I want to continue jumping and get my A license. Anyone know what I should be expecting as fa as when I start jumping again. Am I going to have to repeat the last level, level 7, or am I going to have to take a re-currency course, and do a re-currency jump? I can't afford to go through the whole course again. I just got to the point where jumping was cheaper, and to start all over would kill me. Also, I'm very nervous to start again, I know I just need to get back up there. Thanks.

I still think it depends on the job. Sales jobs need "risk takers". They don't want some quiet conservative person who just follows the rules. They want someone who gets the job done no matter what, because your bottom line is sales. Not all jobs follow that criteria. Again, I use the term "risk takers" as a representation of a snap judgment most non-jumper interviewers would make.

True, I did work at a large firm before this one, and I was able to setup a huge trip for everyone to go do a tandem. We had about 14 people go, it was the talk of the office for a while and everyone knew my name after that. It wasn't looked at poorly, I was just referring to MOST people who don't skydive see it as a reckless sport. Plus at that point I had established myself in the firm and there wouldn't be a question of carelessness. On interviews they make flash judgments on your personality and compare to the job at hand. Again, I totally agree. You have to be cautious and pay attention to details in order to skydive, or else you won't be doing it too long. I'm just saying most people not involved in this sport will not see that side of it. They just see the danger. Then once you establish yourself as attentive and not an aggressive risk taker, you might even be able to convince some people you work with to try it out. Just my thoughts.

Although I'm not exactly a skydiver yet, just finished AFF, but when I went on my interview for the job I just got I left the part out of me being a skydiver. I'm in accounting, which is a very conservative environment. By conservative, I mean if they think I'm reckless, which most non-jumpers think of skydiver's, then they would apply that thought to the possible quality of my work. I told them of other hobbies, I just didn't want them to think that I would be careless and reckless in a profession where details and cautiousness are a virtue. It would be different if skydiving wasn't looked at as such an "extreme" sport by outsiders, but then again it is jumping out of an airplane 13k above the earth, so maybe slightly extreme.

Someone said that if you get the coverage before you skydive, what about if you get insurance before you actually get your skydive license, but not before you do AFF's?

Completed my AFF level 2 yesterday, everything was ok, a little too unstable at exit, but otherwise everything was ok. I can't do anything but think about my level 3, I can't wait. My question is when I complete level 7, I know I still need like 10 more freefall jumps to get my license, but do those jumps have to be with a coach? Or do I just jump alone for the remaining jumps?

Hey everyone, I just jumped this past Saturday, June 14th for my first time at Skydive Long Island in Calverton. Now nothing else in my life can compare. Wanna go through the AFF now. I have my second jump scheduled for next Friday the 27th (just so happens to be my wedding day) then going to do the 3rd (and hopefully final) tandem jump when I get back from my honey moon. Words cannot express how good that felt, which is why I need to keep doing it. My wedding will probably be boring compared to jumping from 13,500. Can't wait.