Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Your parents earned it you might as well enjoy it. What I can't abide by are the suburban kids who are lured into going six figures in debt for a dream that most likely can not be for them. Lambs to the slaughter. You can always go back to work at the furniture store if you want to. Guys like me do not have sponsorship or a safety net. We have to go down with the ship.
Martyrdom all the way. "
Have to go down with the ship."
There you go again with "lured" into the business (it wasn't remotely close to six figures if you learned to fly when you say you did). Your entire family working pilots, and yet you were "lured," as a lamb to the slaughter? Hardly.
It's a damn career. It's not a slaughter.
I know a lot of pilots, being a career one, myself. I don't know any, personally, that had a "safety net" or a "sponsorship." You often speak of these "trust fund kids" as though they're a common thing. I recall meeting one person when I instructed full time who said he had money from a trust. One. Such as most decidedly NOT the makeup of the industry, and represents a fringe sliver of those who have sought flight training or a career.
You didn't "
go down with the ship." The ship never went down. You jumped overboard. Big, BIG difference.
Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
What I meant was that I have been at APC long before most anyone here and I am not so sure that I have not been flying before you either. I can't believe that someone who is my age or older could possibly hold such youthful views of the world.
Youthful views?
No.
Truthful.
Perhaps that's why your'e confused.