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Don't get me wrong, I love GA flying. I'm just tired of every flight being a training flight. I want to go somewhere, see different cities, and fly something more interesting than a light twin.
Furthermore, as tomgoodman said posted above, "Had someone talked you out of giving the airlines a shot, you would regret it forever, because you would never know." I have a serious case of the flying bug. Managing a business will not solve that. Perhaps if I could just taste the airline life for a couple of years, then I will know better what would be the best career fit for the long haul.
Yeah, but I bet that flight training was fun at first... What makes you think flying jets won't get old? Anything that's fun and enjoyable can become dreadful if done often enough. or if it becomes your job.
Yeah, but I bet that flight training was fun at first... What makes you think flying jets won't get old? Anything that's fun and enjoyable can become dreadful if done often enough. or if it becomes your job.
Ah, you are wise indeed. I'm not a Star Wars junkie, but the words of Yoda ring true:
“The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.”
Life is short. This is precisely why I pursue as many of my interests as possible. I am working on two master's degrees (I'll finish the MBA one before I go back to the counseling degree.) Hopefully I can use my MBA as a fall-back plan if flying doesn't work out, and I can use the counseling degree for my volunteer work.
In the meantime, I am wondering if I am just getting too old to be "regional FO poor."
Good luck to ya's. If you have a good fall back (which you seem to), I would at least test the waters to see how it works for you. To each their own, I always say...
Darth say's this:
"To those with a commercial license in their back pocket and a degree on the wall I say, press on! They have already paid the price of entry. A sound path would be at least to put your cards on the table for a time and see what happens."
Skyhigh 3/14/08
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the baseball analogy doesnt ring true. Professional athletes have a much shorter time in their profession than other professions. The average football players tenure is something like 3-4 years........ and I would suspect that baseball while longer is probably not more than 6-10 years..... hardly the same as someone entering flying with many years till retirement.
Tony and Skys experiences are theirs... De's are his... and everyone else's are their own. Everyone's experience in aviation will differ. The life can be difficult and fraught with perils both financial and personal, alot like many other professions... but still unique to this business. Will everyone who enters aviation end up grabbing the golden ring..... no... but neither do those any other professions. In the end one must do what is right for themselves in THEIR situations.
DE has accumulated a personal library of SkyHigh posts and is able to pull them out of some kind of index system and paste in whichever one is perfectly appropriate for the discussion at hand, with the date of the quote.
The "index system" is nothing more than saving Sky's rants at a given time and place. His biggest problem is that he posts here for entertainment value, and, as such, his posts and stated opinions change from time to time to promote his argument of the moment. These moments are frozen in time, and it's not hard to save something in the moment that will prove a lack of credibility in the future.
People should read Sky's life story as a great example of the worst case scenario. But I wouldn't take the guy too seriously...
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DE is my biggest fan however he loves to use my quotes out of context. Six months ago it was easy enough to pick up a regional job and give it a try now however one might have to wait a few years for the opportunity.
I do not know if I would suggest the same now.
Skyhigh
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Baseball is a good comparison when examining career progression in aviation. As I mentioned earlier if a player falls short however all they are out is a few summers and the cost of a leather glove and cleats.
Pilots have to invest a small fortune and most of a decade in order to get their chance.
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Pilots are paid for what they will do, not for what they can do.
Baseball is a good comparison when examining career progression in aviation. As I mentioned earlier if a player falls short however all they are out is a few summers and the cost of a leather glove and cleats.
Pilots have to invest a small fortune and most of a decade in order to get their chance.
Skyhigh
I see that you have never had a child that started out playing Little League of some sort (different leagues) and then got serious about it and started playing those traveling teams and such! VERY EXPENSIVE all year round when you include the the 1-2 week baseball camps and traveling costs for 3 day weekend tournaments.
I'm sure by the time that a young man has even made it into any sort of minor league they have quite a bit invested in the hopes of making it to the big show.
Though most won't - they still play the game they love and many make a career out of it that is much shorter than one of the average pilot I would suspect.
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