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#11
"Do i give up the flying dream for a good reality?"
It's pretty easy to bash the career in this day and age. The career tends to swing with the economy and age 65 probably isn't helping. If you think you'd have a shot at 100K plus job down the road and you enjoy the flying, then I'd stick with it. If you feel like it will never be worth taking the chance or worth the sacrifice, then it's best to get out.
Congratz on having a solid plan B.
It's pretty easy to bash the career in this day and age. The career tends to swing with the economy and age 65 probably isn't helping. If you think you'd have a shot at 100K plus job down the road and you enjoy the flying, then I'd stick with it. If you feel like it will never be worth taking the chance or worth the sacrifice, then it's best to get out.
Congratz on having a solid plan B.
#12
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
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$31K a year or $100K a year? Not many folks have the opportunity for a 320% pay raise. Next year you might make captain and a whopping $60K. Take the medical position, live like an airline FO, use the $69K extra you make the first year alone and buy an older V tail Bonanza or Bellanca Super Viking if you want to travel. If you want pure fun, try to find an older Pitts or an RV-6 or RV-4. You may have to save 6 more months for the Pitts. It's what I would do. Money=Freedom. Show me the money cause I love to be free.
whoa, whoa, whoa, you just told Skyhigh in another thread that leaving Horizon was a big mistake. Now your telling this guy to leave his place, and it wouldn't be a mistake?
#13
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Joined APC: Apr 2006
Posts: 193
Run, don't walk away from the airlines. You say you're not sure you want to give up the 'dream'. What kind of dream includes wal-mart wages, living out of a suitcase and spending half your nights in hotels, never ending instability, having to worry if any slight medical issue will end your career, missing out on half of your kids life, etc etc. This isn't a dream, it's a nightmare. Being a doc, you should know that to even have to question what to do in your situation warrants time in front of a shrink.
Go for it, don't look back. You'll thank yourself!
Go for it, don't look back. You'll thank yourself!
#16
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That sounds like my time in the military..... AND the airlines.... only I spent a year living in tents...
Run, don't walk away from the airlines. You say you're not sure you want to give up the 'dream'. What kind of dream includes wal-mart wages, living out of a suitcase and spending half your nights in hotels, never ending instability, having to worry if any slight medical issue will end your career, missing out on half of your kids life, etc etc. This isn't a dream, it's a nightmare. Being a doc, you should know that to even have to question what to do in your situation warrants time in front of a shrink.
Go for it, don't look back. You'll thank yourself!
Go for it, don't look back. You'll thank yourself!
#17
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Posts: 210
Good luck with your decision buffalo, turning down the freedom that comes with those financial numbers is a tough decision.
#18
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: B757/767
Posts: 13,088
$31K a year or $100K a year? Not many folks have the opportunity for a 320% pay raise. Next year you might make captain and a whopping $60K. Take the medical position, live like an airline FO, use the $69K extra you make the first year alone and buy an older V tail Bonanza or Bellanca Super Viking if you want to travel. If you want pure fun, try to find an older Pitts or an RV-6 or RV-4. You may have to save 6 more months for the Pitts. It's what I would do. Money=Freedom. Show me the money cause I love to be free.
To the original poster, I wouldn't be happy if I left flying. Therefore, I would stay.
#19
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Run, don't walk away from the airlines. You say you're not sure you want to give up the 'dream'. What kind of dream includes wal-mart wages, living out of a suitcase and spending half your nights in hotels, never ending instability, having to worry if any slight medical issue will end your career, missing out on half of your kids life, etc etc. This isn't a dream, it's a nightmare. Being a doc, you should know that to even have to question what to do in your situation warrants time in front of a shrink.
Go for it, don't look back. You'll thank yourself!
Go for it, don't look back. You'll thank yourself!
O.K. But what kind of dream provides endless meetings, e-mails, telephone conferences, being locked in a cubicle, not being able to save a persons life or fix their problem, telling someone they just lost of loved one, missing out on half of your kids life, etc. Just because it isn't flying doesn't mean it's any better. I've run into many people in non aviation careers who are just as busy(if not MORE busy) than I am. I even had one guy tell me he envied me because I got to leave my job behind when I was done flying. He had to work 70 hours a week, and that didn't include the emails he had to sort through when he got home. And doctors don't exactly work rosie hours. It's a good bet they work MORE than pilots.