Originally Posted by
DMBinHBurg
You could look at going to Gulfstream/ATP/JET U just like going to college. I went to college, paid 100k for 4 years, got a job out of school doing software engineering but only made 40k. Sounds a lot like going to a flight school (again Gulfstream/ATP/etc...) by paying your 25k for training and time building, you get hired and make 20-25k. I don't see much difference
There's a huge difference. In college you weren't taking the job of another person. What if you went to college, paid your $100k, and then upon graduation an outside firm offered to give you "experience" if you paid THEM $40k? Would you be happy with that setup? Would you be happy if you said no, but your former classmate said yes and cut the check?
Gulfstream, and companies like it, hurt our profession substantially more then they could ever help.