Originally Posted by
LGApilot
Thanks guys! Appreciate it. I will be EWR based for life since I'm from NYC...
I started college at the age of 16 and graduated at 20. I got all my ratings while attending college.. After graduating, I worked at the Blackstone group for 6 months(finance related, not flying)before leaving for a charter company(flying job)..The Gulfstream I fly now is also owned by Blackstone. The money at Blackstone was good, in the 6 months I worked there after graduation I earned 125k, ofcourse it was not a flying job. FO pay flying their Gulfstream is $120k per year so not a bad gig. You just don't fly much..
Also, I came from a poor family, my dad was a law professor in Pakistan and my mother was a Math Teacher..When they immigrated to the U.S in the 1970s, they had to start all over. My dad drove a nyc yellow cab for 25 years before starting a small food business and my mother was a stay at home mother in the states..I had a free ride at Penn so that helped(including room n board).. For flight training, I took out student loans from Penn for personal use but used them for the flight training..All in all, it worked out.
$125K in 6 months in Finance, and then later $120K per year as a G5 First Officer, all before the age of 24? You are doing better that 99.99% of all the civilian pilots out there. It's almost unbelievable, but I actually believe you.
You must be of the "well above average" intelligence level to graduate from Wharton by the age of 20 with a degree in finance. I don't mean to sound negative, but with a mind like yours, you very well might get bored after only a few years of being an airline pilot, in which case you could very easily move over to management at United (or any airline for that matter).
If you make that move, at least you will have a good perspective of what life is like as a typical line pilot (something that a lot of management seems to lack), and hopefully you will be able to sympathize with the pilot's union when it comes to making decisions on the future of the company, should you ever be in a position to make those kinds of decisions.
Good luck.