Originally Posted by JohnBurke

I put him on the ignore-list a long time ago; I don't even see his posts any more. He had a failed attempt at a maintenance career, and has been bitter since. He has a very shallow understanding of a pilot career, if he's a pilot at all. His posts don't suggest so.

Very weak pilots who don't make it far tend to have a poor opinion of aviating as a career. Very poor mechanics who struggle and fail tend to be similarly jaded. There are plenty of poor pilots and poor mechanics.

Fortunately there are enough good examples that one can look elsewhere without wasting another moment. The poster to whom you refer is a self-appointed missionary of negativity toward aircraft mechanics and the career field in general, and worth nobody's time.