Originally Posted by shackone
Had you remained at Horizon, you would not be making carpenter's wages, nor would you be working a carpenter's schedule or living a carpenter's life style..
But that's not the point.
What is the point is that you have excessively badmouthed an industry that treated you as equitably as it treated everyone else. You chose to leave. You weren't asked to leave. You and only you are responsible for that decision and its outcome.
Aspiring pilots come here for guidance. They don't come here to be indoctrinated into the ranks of the naysayers, doom-and-gloomers, and those with failed careers. You are the minority. Your opinion is a minority opinion. It has relevance but it is not the only voice in the house. Unfortunately, you have tried your best to make it so.
I disagree. I am not in the minority. Most who come to the table and learn the ugly truths fade away and rarely mention their aviation past again. Just today a fencing contractor showed up at my home to do a little repair work and he is a commercial pilot with a bachelors degree in the subject yet his wife and kids have never seen him at the controls of a plane. The world is full of the victims of this industry. They are too ashamed to visit a forum like this. Lately the military has been creating 11,000 new pilots each year. The civilian world is producing a lot more than that. In any case there are far more pilots that there are good jobs to be filled. My guess is ten to one. Just because they don't stand up does not mean that there are not a lot of disappointed people out there.
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