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11-04-2009, 02:17 PM
#11
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Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: Cessna 172 Right Seat
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My advice would be to go to all of the local airports around your area and just start hangar knocking. If you have any free time just hang out at the airport and bring some business cards and tons of resumes. Get your name out there as much as possible no matter how annoying you think you are being. Seems like independent instructing is the only way I've had a chance to get any hours lately.
Good luck!
Good luck!
11-06-2009, 07:57 AM
#12
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Posts: 20
Originally Posted by jared4271987
My advice would be to go to all of the local airports around your area and just start hangar knocking. If you have any free time just hang out at the airport and bring some business cards and tons of resumes. Get your name out there as much as possible no matter how annoying you think you are being. Seems like independent instructing is the only way I've had a chance to get any hours lately.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Thanks man good minds think alike I guess. I have been doing this for a few days.
11-06-2009, 08:19 AM
#13
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Position: Out
Posts: 448
Originally Posted by tomderekc
I am looking for a CFI job. I know the market isn't the best, but I know there is a job out there. I don't care where it is what they pay or what they treat you like. I have been sitting around and I am ready to work.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
11-08-2009, 02:21 PM
#14
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Originally Posted by Rascal
Keep lowering the bar....
Lowering the bar?
I am sure you know of the supply and demand laws. If there is an abundance of CFI's, you might have to work at a lower rate to get a job. Right now I need experiance and I am not going to sit on the couch, watching the Opra show waiting for the magic job man to knock on the door. I am looking for a job, that means in this economy that I will have to do some things that aren't what I prefer to do but what I need to do.
I have been through rough times before and I know what it is like.
So you chill out and watch for jobs on the net while I am out there looking and knocking on some doors. It's all good brother. I pay my bills and I got to do what I got to do.
11-08-2009, 04:35 PM
#15
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: the correct seat
Posts: 1,422
I'm with Rascal. If you walk into every office saying "pay me whatever you like", you set yourself up to be paid as close to minimum wage as possible. You've worked hard for your certificates, and saying "I don't care where it is what they pay or what they treat you like." doesn't help you, me or ANY other aviator. So yes, you can continue with your current thinking and lower the bar, or demand a fair wage, and help move the industry forward.
11-08-2009, 11:06 PM
#17
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Joined APC: May 2007
Posts: 101
Originally Posted by tomderekc
Lowering the bar?
Right now I need experiance It's all good brother.
Right now I need experiance It's all good brother.
No brother, its not all good. After you get the experience as a CFI to move up the rung..you'll start focusing on the next job..for which you'll need the experience (turbine, ect). Will you care then how much they pay or how you're treated? Where does it stop?
Times are tough..but don't trade long term for short term gain.
11-09-2009, 12:17 AM
#18
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: the correct seat
Posts: 1,422
Originally Posted by DBSociety
Times are tough..but don't trade long term for short term gain.
So many pilots should have their medicals revoked for their incredible myopia. If he was just shooting himself in the foot with that attitude, it wouldn't be so bad, but that attitude shoots us all in the foot.
Please, we all are going through tough times right now, but the tiny improvement you see now when you work for $2 an hour won't be worth it when 10 years down the line, you work for $200 an hour LESS than you deserve.
11-09-2009, 12:35 PM
#19
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Again I am not going to sit on the couch and wait for Rod Machado to come and knock on the door. I read a lot of bad post on this company and that company, I really dont care about all that nonsense. I am a grown man and I can decide what I think is fair. I am not going to work for free, but if I have to take a couple of bucks less and put up with a little crap so what. It's called work for a reason.
11-09-2009, 01:17 PM
#20
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Joined APC: Aug 2008
Position: FO4LIFE
Posts: 1,531
Originally Posted by tomderekc
I am not going to work for free, but if I have to take a couple of bucks less and put up with a little crap so what. It's called work for a reason.
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