Candidate for APA Secretary-Treasurer

I subscribe to the Milton Friedman’s “Third Party Effects” on spending money.  He states that there are 4 ways to spend money:

1.  One can spend his own money on himself – in this case he/she is concerned with both quality and cost.

2.  One can spend his own money on someone else – in this case he/she is more concerned with the cost than the quality of the purchase.

3.  One can spend someone else’s money on themself – in this case he/she is not worried at all about the cost but is concerned about the quality.

4.  One can spend someone else’s money on someone else – in this case he/she isn’t concerned with the cost or the quality.

When I worked on the Membership Committee for 6 years, our committee came in under budget every year because I viewed spending APA’s money as if it was my own.  I was very concerned with both cost and quality.  We hosted an average of about 85-90 dinners and staffed over 130 events annually between the New Hire Meet & Greet on the pilots first day at American Airlines, New Hire Welcome dinners and Captain Upgrade dinners. Many of these events happened on volunteers’ days off, but sometimes a pilot would have to be removed from a trip using the PU code in order to support the missions assigned to the Membership Committee.

I feel confident that if any of the volunteers I worked with on the PBS Training Team or the Membership Committee were asked, they could tell you my philosophy. Volunteering should not cost you money (wages), nor should it make you money.