Originally Posted by
rickdb
Just curious, what do you do in the medical field that pays you that much? I mean you were a lowly paid pilot before. How did you get the capital to create such a lucrative business? Also, didnt you ever think about doing it on the side, and flying 121?
M.D.
I was DEFINATELY a lowly paid pilot before. After landing back at base after 9/11, I was hospitalized with double pneumonia. I was married into a medical family at that time, and was amazed at how things were going-especially after I had had a front row seat in hell for the last 3 days.
I said then and there-THAT'S FOR ME!
As far as how to financially do it, I worked many different jobs while in school and took out a few loans. In agreeing to work for this hospital, they have agreed to repay them as part of my compensation pkg.
It's funny, in the entrance interview for med school, those guys were eating out of my hand when I was detailing the events that led to my being there.
And they couldn't believe pilots made so little money.