Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Yep....I knew the cost of flight training would rear it’s head as an excuse.
You could get all the training in a short amount of time and start your career without ANY higher education for a long time.
even now with a 4 year degree (and the cost of said degree) MANY degrees start out much less than 60k. MUCH LESS.
Everyone loves examples so.....
Lady I know spends a tremendous amount on a PRIVATE university law school (takes 3 years for that degree) and starts out at $32,000.
It would have taken her 10 to make $55,000.
Another spends how much on a bachelors and masters degrees to become a social counselor in some type of state government job to NEVER make more than 60k?
Lets just drop TEACHERS out there as one big group no matter where you are.
And FEW of these jobs have anywhere near the POTENTIAL earnings that many pilot’s have to make even at the Regiobal or LCC carriers much less if they make it to a Major.
Not only do I have the gall to say it.... I have to gall to say that you are blind by not seeing it.
i know.....ALL pilots think they have it so tough and ought to make $150,000 right off the bat and only work 10 days a month if that.
I’m tired of that narrative.
you know the requirements of the career field when you entered it.
You know it has its’ risks.
You take those risks for carrot at the end of the stick.
it will work out for many.
At least have some respect to other careers that are less fortunate and realize you are far from the bottom of any career field.
At least people now have to put a little effort into this career before they can start griping about how underpaid and over worked they are. Thank goodness for the ATP rule!
I don’t drink at all on the road so you don’t have to worry about buying me (and sharing my Light beer or the fancy stuff) anything rickair :-)
Sorry, my point is that by time you get to a regional, you've already invested the time in the initial job that those other careers start out at. I'm happy to see that it's at least to the point now that it's a good livable wage as opposed to food stamp level like when I started. The Law degree has greater career earnings potential than pilots do, so I'm not sure where you're going that, I think the counselor can make much more too. I don't think it takes 10 years in law to get past 55k... although it did for a lot of pilots.
$60,000 a year is at least respectable, but I just don't think it's a fair shake to say "it's just an initial job." For many it's a second or third job because their initial jobs were the ones that got them to where they even met minimums. $60,000 they should at least be able to live pretty comfortably as they are seriously getting into the career, but I don't think it makes for a good excuse for stopping the tradition of CAs buying at least one drink on a trip. Of course, even when it was $20,000 a lot of regional CAs didn't really do that anyway.