Originally Posted by
Careercfi
What kind of a man sits back.... oh well
This industry is soooo cruel. Soooooo cruel!
Why quit and then stick around a forum trying to kill dead flies? Makes no sense. Serves no purpose. Either sit it out like CA Sully did (you can always hope to be part of a lucky chain of events) or get out and become a Doctor.
None of the pilots I ever met would recommend flying for the airlines to their kids. It has taken them years and years to get to where they are.
Lots of hard work, and always the realization that it can be over for good tomorrow. The whole thing is nothing but a sand castle. I wonder how it is then still possible to recruit cheap labor and get so many people to spend all this good money for all this?
Could someone explain? Why are the academies cranking out pilots like chocolate chips if a long timer like Sully makes $108K? Are you kidding? $108K, for this job?
Actually as a furloughed airline pilot turned back to instructing, us here at the ERAU Prescott campus might have to endure the possibility of laying off most of our instructors over the summer due to lack of enrollment....Not guaranteed but a possibility. So even the academies have stopped making their "cookies" just because the students and parents are realizing that it might not be beneficial to spend all that money for a career that isn't looking so hot right now.
