Originally Posted by
proskuneho
Good point.
The problem is usually that if one has a job outside of flying, he cannot afford to fly. If one flies for a living, he doesn't have money for much else until he has spent so much of his life already.
That's more or less true. I embarked on a consulting career that paid for the fixed costs of airplane ownership, as well as the direct operating costs when I flew for business (one of the reasons I gravitated to a consulting gig was for the potential "fly myself" travel). But the finances were still so tenuous that I had to sell my plane when we had our second child; couldn't afford the time and $ that the fixed costs ate up. So I'm at the point where I need to get my commercial and switch careers...obviously not this year, though.
I had my cake and was eating it too, my problem is I want more cake than anything but a flying job will give me.