Originally Posted by
SeamusTheHound
Based on your hesitations about various options, I would suggest that perhaps you are not really looking for a "job" flying, but that you really appreciate it as a hobby. Go get a well-paying gig in a cubicle, like 9-to-5, and get your flying jollies in a club on the weekends.
What I really don't understand is why the CFI just isn't an option for so many. It is an irreplaceable skill set. Even better, for you, being a CFI will have you home every night.
What is it that you WANT? (And when you're done describing it, think of how many thousand others on this board with much, much, much more flight experience would ideally want the same thing.)
Perhaps just like you, I'd really love to be a bodybuilder. But I just don't want to go to the gym, and I don't want to change my diet, and I have very little experience lifting weights or working out. SO for ME, what would you suggest I do to become a bodybuilder?
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I was trying to be polite and helpful but this was my exact thinking.
If your young being able to get paid to travel and live out of a suitcase is a dream for most. I would love to be flying a jet and be home every night. But I fly 135 and today was day 14 away from home and my girl. Just how it goes to gain experience in aviation.
Flying at 1000agl is definitely not low heck it's above pattern altitude.
I mean really man our generation has a hard enough time fighting the stigma of wanting everything handed to us. So do whatever you need to do to earn a better spot somewhere. Just find a weekend drop zone nearby even if it means driving a bit to fly a few hours a weekend for $10 a load to at least keep building time while making connections and gaining experience(they can also teach you to pack parachutes and can make a killing doing that). Our drop zone packer makes $1500 a weekend all cash. Or google the nearest group of glider pilots and fly their tow plane and get a cheap glider rating. Ask around your local airport for professionals like doctors or lawyers who travel with their own plane and offer to fly them(many don't have an instrument rating and you will be of value to help them fly more often). Aviation is my life's passion and it's hard enough flying with guys who just make it a job and are needy about everything. Not trying to be a d*** it's just frustrating.