my present PROFESSION until I went back to college after 9/11/01. Now, I'm sitting on an ATP/MEL with 11,000 plus hours and a type rating-and a VERY lucrative medical career which is recession and furlough proof. You guys that already have degrees, believe it or not, those degrees are VALUABLE. You can go on from there to an advanced degree like I did, and have life on your terms.

I was STUPID. I thought hard work and spotless credentials would get me to the major airline job that I had dreamed of, instead, the reality was that if I had HAPPENED to meet the right S.O.B., and brown-nosed him enough so that he /she would lie and say that I was the greatest pilot, and that they had known me my whole life-then I'd have made it there, credentials and hard work be damned.

Now, the fruits of my hard work are paying me BANK!, and I work as much or as little as I want, no a$$ kissing, no recommendation, no nothing-except my PROFESSIONAL LISCENSE.

As for flying, I fly a Pitts S2c FOR FUN now. Yes, I said it-FUN.

Dont think you are trapped-cause you're not, unless you want to be.


It's hard to beat an EDUCATED person.