[QUOTE from FlyingNinja]
I've done everything I possibly can to get into the aviation industry. Unfortunately, people who encouraged me to chase this flying dream of mine are indirectly responsible for my poor broke ass as I have spent everything I earned to chase the dream. Have I done everything? I don't know. You tell me. Have I spent all my money chasing the dream? Absolutely! So your generalization, while appreciated, doesn't apply to people like me. What can you do when you have no more money and you're over $100K in debt with no way of paying it back and jobless? I'm open to your suggestions so that I can answer your question, "what have I done to improve this situation?" because right now, I'm asking, "what have I done that got me into this situation?" Of course, I'm being sarcastic. I know what I did. I listend to people who said, "go for your dream...so many people don't chase their dreams...flying is great, you'll get a job...oh, you're going to Embry-Riddle's CAPT program? oh...Riddle has a great reputation..." Yeah, all that bullsh!t landed my ass broke with no job and no options left but to go back to the desk job I had.

Dream chasing can be deadly and expensive.[/QUOTE]


Hey ninja, it definitely appears that you have exhausted all means to make you dream a reality, but you know that if you let this overwhelm you it will be that much harder to see things clearly, i.e. getting some aviation work! What I said is merely a self-reflective process that causes people to help uncover a solution to a problem as opposed to adding "fuel to the fire". You are in a pickle my friend, and I don't know your whole story but as others have noted, thank you for sharing it with the group. I was considering the CAPT program but was discouraged by the prices, and the negativity that I had heard from the grapevine. You have only helped other future aviators from stepping into your predicament, for that I salute you. However my salute will not land you a job, obviously, and considering I am rather new to the aviation world myself, I cannot offer you an easy way to any job. But I'm curious, why not instruct somewhere and earn at least some income and gain more experience? If you are already doing that then great. I'm not a pessimist, and fully believe if there's a will there's a way, so as corny as this sounds, "never give up". Look for opportunity every day, and stay positive even in the face of $100,000 looming over you. But to give up your dream when the goin gets tough is ultimate defeat.