Originally Posted by
BryanWithaY
I am in a similar boat. 46 years old.
I started my commercial training yesterday actually.
I am instrument rated and have about 1050 hours. Wondering if this is possible mainly dealing with the 3-4 year cut in pay and being away from my wife just as we would be becoming empty nesters.
Seems kind of crappy to be 8-5 M-F for the last 23 years and the kids go off to college and I say "I'll be around sometimes but a lot of the time you will be alone in an empty house".
I just HATE my IT career. I am so over it. I really want to find a way to do this. At any rate for now, I am going to keep building hours and knocking out the rating so I at least have the option to jump before I get too stressed in my chosen profession.
Thanks for starting this thread.
I envy you, you have two-thirds of the hours already, you could probably be hitting a regional within a year. I feel exactly the same about my current job, I'm starting to loathe it and would like to jump ship before it becomes truly depressing.