Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
If you fly for the money you will probably never be rich in Sky's mind. If you fly only as a way to make a living you will not survive this industry. Everyone is different and everyone deals with it in different ways. If you choose to leave the profession you will find your way, most everyone does. Sky makes SOME valid points, others I disagree with and they are not worth discussing with him because he is dead set on his ideas and that is okay, just realize what he says is his opinion and HIS experience. YMMV. Oh.. and sky... those postal jobs you always talk about... USPS has cut 105,000 workers in the past 2 years.... oh and did you see.. they have announced 7500 more yesterday. No industry is safe, no company is safe. There ARE opportunities outside of aviation... there ARE opportunities inside aviation as well.
HercDriver130,
I am sure that you realize that the mailman is a baseline example of what can be accomplished without a college degree or flight training; good wages, benefits and retirement.
Pilots can fool themselves into thinking that they are doing well as a 52K per year regional captain when really they are earning far less than a mailman. After four years of college and the cost of flight training a regional pilot should be making far more than they do.
I agree that no job is safe however I am certain that delivering the mail is a much safer career than being a pilot. When times get tuff the corporate jet is the first thing to go the mail however still gets delivered. In addition in the rare occasion when a mailman gets laid off they will not have 150K in student loans to pay off either.
From a stability and financial standpoint being a mailman is a better career.
Skyhigh