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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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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

It's not strange to keep dogs at work, in some situations like yours. If you're an unapproachable hermit, then having two dogs follow you around is really good for your image in my opinion. Dogs are like personality thermometers. If people only know two things about you, that you are doing your job and have two addorable dogs following you around while you're doing it, it tells most people everything they need to know about you who wont get to talk to you.

One of the biggest concerns a person has with a person who keeps to themselves is that they dont know anything about them and what they dont know could make that person dangerous. Two happy well adjusted dogs tells people that you are not to be confused for a creepy loser. You dont have a short temper that you take out on the people around you (If you dont do it to dogs, youre less likely to do it to humans).

Do you want to have more conversation and be approachable? If not, then whatever youre doing is just fine. Unless your boss is scared of or hates dogs you shouldnt have anything to worry about. I'm suprised more people dont try to talk to you, if i met a guy on the job with two dogs, i would have to make an active effort not to habitually engage in conversation with the guy just so i can pet the dogs. Though in my line of work, having a dog on the job would have been unacceptable

[–] • 1 pt

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