Originally Posted by
Zapata
There is a big difference between paying for your own education and certificates and buying a job. Your degree and/or certificates are yours to take with you, However, airline specific training is not. i.e. You buy a job at ABC Airlines and they go under. If XYZ Airlines is also PFT, ABC's doesn't help you one bit. Anybody that pays an employer as a condition of employment is not a professional at all. They're just warming the seat and taking a job away from real professionals.
I don't appreciate being misquoted. My comment strictly referred to paying for
training (in response to a comment that we are professionals and shouldn't have to pay for our own training). I was just pointing out that lots of professionals pay for training, etc. in order to get a job, and I was not referring to "buying a job."
If you buy a job at ABC Airlines, when they go under you can certainly take your experience with you.
And if you buy a type rating, for example, it is "yours to take with you" just like your education, etc. but you are probably against that too.