Originally Posted by
nicholasblonde
But most of them don't fully understand that med and law people go through just as much BS (if not more), and work twice as much...and lawyers, just like pilots, might never get that six figure job unless they went to a great school and got good grades. It's even more competitive. People forget that. Keep that in mind and you'll stay in aviation, trust me.
exactly right my man. i tried to explain this in a previous post of mine and people didn't believe it. you will only make 30k a year for 4 years as a resident, and i have lawyer friends who are just trying to scrape by starting their own practices. they say it will be 5 years or so before they really start to see any profit. when i was working at the hospital and sleeping on those nasty beds waiting for my pager to go off i would hear the helicopter flying in, or a jet over head and knew i had to get out NOW!!! going in at 3:00 in the afternoon, supposed to get off around 1:00 am, only to get "EXTENDED" and not end up leaving the hospital till 5:00am. unfortunatly in the hospital there are no rest requirements so i had to be back the next day to face it all again with minimul sleep.
now for your question. the regionals will continue to hire and you will have no problem getting a job. some regionals will be slower than others at hiring, but i don't see any of them slowing down enough that you would have to worry about getting a job at all.
Originally Posted by
DANCRJ
Attrition is already slowing down, even at PNCL where the attrition was crazy last year.
its definantly not as fast as last year but i don't think there is to much of a slow down. my seniority moved up over 25 people in the february bid pack. and i am in the 600's. so still a lot of senior people moving on to greener pastures, and we still have captain vacancies going unfilled.