Originally Posted by crabinow16

Man I can always rely on you to give something to look foreword to...haahaha

I don't think I could see my self doing anything else. I think the thing that gets to people now a days are the people who tell you to stop *****ing and take your lumps and get a job flying checks......CHECKS? ok I am 22 and the only reason I have checks is to pay my rent. there are things called debit cards now the check industry went away a long time ago.

Then the witty come back is then go do night cargo.

Ok night cargo with two pilots is gone. That is unless you pay for your right seat time...WHICH IS A GIANT NONO....YOU WILL BE PUNISHED IF YOU DO THIS...so again we are back at the issue of what do you do when you have 350 hours and a shiny new degree. I had a couple right seat caravan gigs that I know about and I am definitely willing to take one if it is available just so I can get to the time requirements needed to start doing some PIC work. I will make 1100 a month and eat a quarter of a ramen packet for breakfast, lunch, and Dinner plus that last quarter you keep for when you get delayed and the airport burger is to expensive.

I think that everyone here has some great Ideas for what people can do but I do not believe that I am downgrading this profession by wanting to do something that I love. How many of you can honestly say that if you had just gotten out of college had no financial obligations like kids or a wife and the only way you were going to get your career started was to take a job that paid 17.5K you would say no because your morals or whatever it is wouldn't let you. If i got a call from a regional tomorrow and they said heres a job FO on a regional jet and you will make 17.5K a year and I say I am sorry but that isn't enough. they aren't going to say oh well our mistake the number is really 25K a year...no they are going to say ok and offer it to the guy they interviewed afterwards.

I understand that this isn't enough I would much rather be making the 40K my girl makes working as an assistant front desk manager but I love flying and this is the way the industry is. I would love to change it but I am not going to pass up a job because of it. Yeah I will have to live with 6 guys in small apartment that will probably be upstairs from a guy who cooks meth but you never know 5 years down the road I might be fine making an ok salary and doing what I love plus I will have some fun stories to tell. Look on the sunny side guys your all doing something that you enjoy...would you rather be workign at the front desk of a hotel?