Please kindly share your mistake :)
06-22-2018, 07:34 AM
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Please kindly share your mistake :)
It've never easy to admit your mistake but it's is crucial step in learning , growing and improving, please kindly share your mistakes and things you wish you had known before get into this carreer .
06-22-2018, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by AboveMins
I gave up going to pharmacy school to pursue this. I don't regret it, but it is the biggest financial mistake of my life.
I am single,have an 9 to 5 job , I have so much time in my hand and I want to study and learn new thing .I told my parents that and of course they want me to go to medical field , they don't know "new thing" means aviation
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06-22-2018, 12:34 PM
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It’s onky when you retire that you can evaluate mistakes.
Bruno82,. Did you know WHEN you left Eagle the date of your AA flow? Was the corporate job your best option at the time or was it a worse option you decided to gamble on?
When I retired, I looked back, at each “deciding point”, I can say I made the best decision available to me. Some looked overly conservative, but turned out best in the long run. In ‘97, I’d just made LtCol as a full-timer in the AF Reserves and could retire. Loads of ex-EAL guys were at UAL saying, “come on over, it’s great”; young new hires were tossing around C99 like money in the bank. Had I gone, I’d had a horrible time-furloughedor stagnated, forced out of the Reserves at HYT and looking for job at the worst time in decades. I stayed in the Reserves, retired, did 12 years at a corporate department where I earned a better retirement than civil service.
My advice:
Build usable skills beyond flying your plane—leadership, operational experience beyond your plant and safety education.
Make conservative career moves—each one should build your skills
Don’t leave until you’ve gotten everything possible out of the position. If you’re stagnating, leave. If OTOH, you can take on LCA, Safety, leadership job, turbojet PIC time, hang in there. It’ll pay off.
Money ain’t everything and if you do good work, it’ll take of itself. I never actively played with my savings, but retired with three pensions, 7-digit savings. It’s possible without being a B777 Captain.
Don’t work as drudgery, if it isn’t fun and learning something everyday—it’s wrong.
GF
Bruno82,. Did you know WHEN you left Eagle the date of your AA flow? Was the corporate job your best option at the time or was it a worse option you decided to gamble on?
When I retired, I looked back, at each “deciding point”, I can say I made the best decision available to me. Some looked overly conservative, but turned out best in the long run. In ‘97, I’d just made LtCol as a full-timer in the AF Reserves and could retire. Loads of ex-EAL guys were at UAL saying, “come on over, it’s great”; young new hires were tossing around C99 like money in the bank. Had I gone, I’d had a horrible time-furloughedor stagnated, forced out of the Reserves at HYT and looking for job at the worst time in decades. I stayed in the Reserves, retired, did 12 years at a corporate department where I earned a better retirement than civil service.
My advice:
Build usable skills beyond flying your plane—leadership, operational experience beyond your plant and safety education.
Make conservative career moves—each one should build your skills
Don’t leave until you’ve gotten everything possible out of the position. If you’re stagnating, leave. If OTOH, you can take on LCA, Safety, leadership job, turbojet PIC time, hang in there. It’ll pay off.
Money ain’t everything and if you do good work, it’ll take of itself. I never actively played with my savings, but retired with three pensions, 7-digit savings. It’s possible without being a B777 Captain.
Don’t work as drudgery, if it isn’t fun and learning something everyday—it’s wrong.
GF
06-22-2018, 12:53 PM
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Position: BE9L, Captain
Posts: 419
Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
It’s onky when you retire that you can evaluate mistakes.
Bruno82,. Did you know WHEN you left Eagle the date of your AA flow? Was the corporate job your best option at the time or was it a worse option you decided to gamble on?
Bruno82,. Did you know WHEN you left Eagle the date of your AA flow? Was the corporate job your best option at the time or was it a worse option you decided to gamble on?
At the time AMR had declared bankruptcy, AE was furloughing, and I was being displaced to FO. We knew we had flow rights but there was no indication of when they’d be. Friends called and offered me a job that paid well, had me home a lot, and I learned another trade besides flying on days I wasn’t flying. It was a good 6 years but set me back on the aviation career.
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