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Im way up in the north and my job is as the sole caretaker for a smaller non commercial airport, the property is about 250 acres. I bring my two dogs to work with me everyday and let them follow me everywhere as I do my job (not on the air side obviously) There’s a bunch of camp workers that are here seasonally on the property and all the flight traffic is private. Anyway I’m pretty much the definition of a hermit and I wanted to know if this would be considered creepy or gay, just a dude with two dogs always with him. People always wave at me but no one ever tries to talk to me and I’m trying to take stalk and think maybe I come off as unapproachable or something. The airport association seems to really like me but I’ve never actually met any of them I just deal with the people in the tower mostly.

Im way up in the north and my job is as the sole caretaker for a smaller non commercial airport, the property is about 250 acres. I bring my two dogs to work with me everyday and let them follow me everywhere as I do my job (not on the air side obviously) There’s a bunch of camp workers that are here seasonally on the property and all the flight traffic is private. Anyway I’m pretty much the definition of a hermit and I wanted to know if this would be considered creepy or gay, just a dude with two dogs always with him. People always wave at me but no one ever tries to talk to me and I’m trying to take stalk and think maybe I come off as unapproachable or something. The airport association seems to really like me but I’ve never actually met any of them I just deal with the people in the tower mostly.

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Thanks this is kind of what I thought at first too but I just wondered after a while if maybe I got it twisted.

My boss is the airport manager and he doesn’t even live here lol his main job is a couple hours south. However he works for the airport association which is made up of 7 of the owners of the hangers at the airport and I’ve only met the president of the board who I used to work for at his charter company. He’s the one who got me this job after I told him I was interested after the last guy retired.

I was the safety officer of his charter company before and I never brought my dogs to work then but once I got the lay of the land in this new role I didn’t see the harm considering I’m usually outside and a good distance from everyone else. I have my own maintenance shop as well so when I have to go air side or into the forestry camp for water testing they just hang out and nap in there.

I never got the idea that it was pissing people off and nobody has ever said anything, I just wonder if people think I’m weird or creepy lol

I don’t necessarily want people to talk to me but at the same time if nobody does then that kind of gets in my head, maybe I just have too much opportunity to think about dumb things, being by myself all the time

Your take is the best I could hope for though I think I’ve hit the sweet spot between work and life so as long as I’m not getting negative attention I’ll take it for what it is