Originally Posted by
BaronRouge380
Hotmama, again, can we switch jobs? You don't like your job and I do not like mine. I can give you my 120k engineering job for your flying job. As I said, you'll be in an office all day going from meeting to meeting and dealing with corporate BS all day. And you will take some of it home too, very important fact!
Where else can you build time quickly other than at a regional for 20k/year. I am looking for the time and then get out. I am open to any other avenue as well.
I do not believe in any pilot shortage, but what will happen with the 1500h rule? I do hope the law becomes a fact! Retirements? One sure thing, the next few years may be quite interesting...
Yep, you take work home with you, and we generally don't. But my "typical" work day is about 13 hours long. So, which is worse?
You have meetings and BS all day long. I spend upwards of eight hours per day, locked in a room the size of a walk in closet with a guy who I may hate: that guy who has questionable hygiene, talks about the boil he just had lanced, b!tches about the company incessantly, and critiques everything you do.
Where else can you get hours? Hmm, let me think... I have instructed, ferried planes, sight seeing tours hauled boxes, moved patients, and spotted sailfish in the Keys (admittedly, that job was only a few days, and I was paid in liquor). There are a zillion other ways to build time: traffic watch, banner towing, pipeline patrol, hot shot delivery, photography, hauling jumpers, and on and on. Heck, you have your own 172 don't you? How about hanging out a shingle for sight seeing right now? It has been years since I dealt with that part of the regs, but if I remember (somebody correct me if I am wrong), but VFR non-stop sight seeing flights that depart and terminate at the same location and remain within 25 miles don't require anything other than a commercial cert and 100 hour inspections.
When you get your time and "get out", just where are you going to go? Gone are the days of "I'm gonna get my 1000 TPIC and go to XYZ mainline." There are tens of thousands of pilots who already have several years of TPIC all ahead of you...... oh, and they have the contacts that will help them get an interview. Do you?