Thread: Who likes their job?
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Old 11-19-2008 | 09:44 AM
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Dan64456
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Originally Posted by bryris
Again, you've never done it, so its tough to imagine. I too, flight instructed, and recently signed back up with a flight school to stay current after the airlines. I loved flight instructing, disliked the airlines.
Originally Posted by bryris

Flying a 172 with no autopilot down low, with varying students, in different levels of training, etc is cool. It makes you think to sit there and explain some element of the curriculum to a student.

Once you are through training in the airlines (which is difficult), you won't think about flying again until your next recurrent. Its just a program you run every flight. It goes something like this:

PF: Set thrust, gear up, flaps up, climb power, 10,000 feet, 29.92's, direct XXX, 1,000 to go, 100 to go, cruise power, cross XXX at FL240, brief landing, in range check, flaps 9, flaps 22, gear down, yaw damper off, land.

or PNF: Cleared to go, contact dep, climb to 15,000, climb to FL230, contact the next guy, the next guy, the next guy, the next guy, the next guy, the next guy, the next guy, descend to FL190, cross XXX at 11,000 at 250knots, contact approach, "we've got Juliet", turn here, turn there, contact tower, cleared to land.

Done! Just repeat a few thousand times and enjoy the hotels.



Or how about this life...

Get up, get shower, brush teeth, get dressed, TRY to eat breakfast, sit in traffic, walk to train, sit on train, walk to work, get to work, get coffee, sit down in cubicle, sit down in cubicle, sit down in cubicle... wait you are still sitting down in the cubicle. listen to the gossip/politics goin on around you.. hear about how your job can be outsourced to India if they wanted to, deal with the co worker that doesn't do any work and pawns it off on you, and makes more money than you... deal with the CEO's kid or relative that is dumber than a brick despite his fully paid for education, watch them move up around you to higher positions because of their last name, while you remain the same, and sit in the cubicle... wait that 23 year old got a corner office now? Yup you are still in the cubicle. Time to go home yet? finally. walk to train, sit on train, walk to car, sit in traffic, walk to house, sit down fighting the urge to pass out... argue with the wife b/c you are ****y and miserable from the day… go to bed, get up, repeat. 5 days a week every week. Only 1 - 4 day weekend per year (thanks giving). 99% of the rest of the time, its 5 on, 2 off. Oh, don't let me forget about the select favorites that get work from home privileges, when you don't or wont... Despite the fact that you BUILT THE FKN VPN.