Thinking about getting back into flying
02-25-2008 | 06:55 AM
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Gets Weekends Off
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02-25-2008 | 06:57 AM
#12
Gets Weekends Off
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From: A319/320/321 FO
You can think about your family AND have a job you like. Just because you have family responsibilities doesn't mean you have to be miserable and not do something else you want to do. It's thinking like this that makes for a lot of miserable people. Also, the significant other has to be supportive. If they are not, they are not worth being with. I dunno, maybe I am spoiled with my honey. My SO and I are having a baby in a month and if he wanted to up and quit flying and go back to school to restore cars (which is an interest of his), I would do WHATEVER I COULD to support that and make it happen. You only have one life to live so you should make it good. Don't limit yourself......unfortunately too many people do.
02-25-2008 | 07:00 AM
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New Hire
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Very helpful everybody. Hindsight is always 20/20. I should've stuck with it and I'd be sitting captain somewhere now. Everybody always thinks the grass is greener on the other side. I work in sales and it's not. I'm gone a lot anyway. It would just be nice that instead of saying "I have to go to work" to be able to say "I have to go fly". I guess once flying is in your blood it's hard to get it out.
02-25-2008 | 07:27 AM
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Freightmama!
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Very helpful everybody. Hindsight is always 20/20. I should've stuck with it and I'd be sitting captain somewhere now. Everybody always thinks the grass is greener on the other side. I work in sales and it's not. I'm gone a lot anyway. It would just be nice that instead of saying "I have to go to work" to be able to say "I have to go fly". I guess once flying is in your blood it's hard to get it out.
Good luck!
02-25-2008 | 07:28 AM
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Freightmama!
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Lots of flying, lots of job fairs, lots of butt kissing.....you know....the standard.
I also got in right as they were hiring a bunch so I got some decent seniority fairly quickly. Lucked out that's for sure!
02-25-2008 | 08:12 AM
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Where's my Mai Tai?
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From: fins to the left, fins to the right
Just bustin' your chops FP.
How long you gonna be a NB? I may need that number.
02-25-2008 | 08:15 AM
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Married and have a baby on the way and you want to quit a well paying job for poverty wages? Whats up with that?
Does the wife have a stable career she can support the three of you? Financial help from some rich parents or something? Anything? If not, entering aviation would be a poor and unfair decision to place on the baby and wife.
Like someone else said, perhaps you could do some part time instructing (while keeping the well paying non-aviation job) for a few years and attain the ATP rating and reevaluate then.
EAHINC
Does the wife have a stable career she can support the three of you? Financial help from some rich parents or something? Anything? If not, entering aviation would be a poor and unfair decision to place on the baby and wife.
Like someone else said, perhaps you could do some part time instructing (while keeping the well paying non-aviation job) for a few years and attain the ATP rating and reevaluate then.
EAHINC
02-25-2008 | 08:27 AM
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Married and have a baby on the way and you want to quit a well paying job for poverty wages? Whats up with that?
Does the wife have a stable career she can support the three of you? Financial help from some rich parents or something? Anything? If not, entering aviation would be a poor and unfair decision to place on the baby and wife.
Like someone else said, perhaps you could do some part time instructing (while keeping the well paying non-aviation job) for a few years and attain the ATP rating and reevaluate then.
EAHINC
Does the wife have a stable career she can support the three of you? Financial help from some rich parents or something? Anything? If not, entering aviation would be a poor and unfair decision to place on the baby and wife.
Like someone else said, perhaps you could do some part time instructing (while keeping the well paying non-aviation job) for a few years and attain the ATP rating and reevaluate then.
EAHINC
Of course, if your wife makes good $$ and is in a stable career go for it!
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