Originally Posted by
Bond
If you're going to do this for a living just make sure you know what you're getting yourself into. There's a lot of things to look at and you will get different responses from different folks at different airlines. In other words, if they work for a less reputable company with bad pay and QOL, then you'll probably get a lot of negative feedback. If you talk to anyone that works a good company with good pay and QOL, well then you'll probably get a different story. A lot of it believe it or not has to do luck and timing, there are some great folks here that have been through not one, not two, but three furloughs! And then there are others that are lucky enough to never have been furloughed.
Very true. Luck, timing, and who you know will have a great impact on one's career. And he is right that personal experience has great influence on what one posts on this site. Honestly, my present employer is the first one that did not appreciate me as a worker or fully trust my decisions.
That said, I do think you need to hear the negative. The folks trying to sell you flight instruction and probably you own beliefs paint aviation in a rosy picture..... a picture similar to what I, as a kid, thought of being a firefighter (all romance, no reality).
I offer my view, which most would see as dark, as a realistic balance to the dream most of us had.
In spite of all I have been through, my love for being in the clouds will keep me doing this work while fighting to improve the life. Keep in mind, I have no family, nor do I want one, but every morning I fly east into a sunrise, I cant help but think, "and they pay me to do this".