Originally Posted by
TonyC
The advice doesn't threaten me, but it could potentially steer a young pilot in the wrong direction. If it didn't have the potential to misinform, I wouldn't care a whit what you say. But when you assume an air of authority and dole out bad information, I'm inclined to point out the fallacies you spew.
For example, a young aspiring pilot is about to lose his job in the industry and is desperate to stay afloat. What should he do? Your advice is to abandon aviation because it is an unworthy profession, and success is unachievable.
Aviation is cyclical. It goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down. Guess what? It will go up again. And when it does, this young aviator needs to be in a postion to catch it on the upswing. Build fences. Paint houses. Deliver pizza. Drive a truck. That doesn't mean he has to be a truck driver for the rest of his life. It means he can put food on the table and be poised to catch the next wave.
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DON'T YOU REALIZE THIS ISN'T "NORMAL"? What other "profession" is
supposed to go through cyclical times? This is the bull**** we've accepted as pilots! do you see md's and lawyers driving a truck, waiting tables, building houses? NO! If you wan't to call this a profession, you shouldn't see threads about "what do you guys do for second jobs?" I know someone very close to me
who left law practice for a while, and decided to go back after a three year hiatus (sp). All she had to do was take her "CLE" which is the attorney version of a recurrent. When she did, she was wooed by a few firms, and all three of them FLEW HER DOWN ON THEIR DIME (yes, NJA does this....but only them.) took her out to lunch, and kissed her a$$! They then paid her to sit at home and study for the Florida bar. When she was ready, they paid for her Bar exam. When she selected the firm she wanted to work at, they hired her as an "of counsel" (somewhere between an associate and a partner). They also told her exactly when she'd be up for partnership, and it happened. She did NOT have to start at the bottom. She did NOT take a crappy salary. Do you guys think it's OK that ups has all of those apps? what about SWA? NJA? How long do you fall over yourselves (I'm guilty of it too) to get these jobs?
rant over.