I think I saw an ad for that school: "Give us your money and we'll teach you to hate airline flying as much as we do!"
I must say, they delivered on the promise.

 

Do your knees hurt?

 

nwdc10 is most likely sky-high. With very few posts and a story that's constantly contradictory, nwdc10 posted in april telling us that he was about to enter college, and two months later posted saying that he graduated. (and last month claimed to be a retired aviator...quick career). He has nothing to do with flying, and so can only be a troll.

Any commentary he might make can be safely dismissed out of hand, given his admissions to date.

 

Skyhigh

I know the Mail man/woman is one of your examples but that job is looking weak also.
"Earlier this year, the post office defaulted on two of the health prepayments for the first time in its history."

Post office reports record loss of $15.9B for year - Yahoo! News

 

Clutch,

I doubt very much that dentists or accountants enter the profession because they think it will be fun. Most of the higher paid professions no one would do as a hobby. No one in my graduating class expected to have fun flying an airliner however we all expected to earn a betting living than if we had not made the sacrifice.

It is the same today. Kids are graduating from college 160K in debt holding the expectation of getting hired at FedEx within a few years. The reality is that most are going to be crushed by their student loans and will not make it past their first job. To me it is a crime not to arm new pilots with the realities of the profession before they are burdened with the impossible debt. Some times it works out most of the time however it does not.

I became a pilot because I am good at it and it is in my blood. My father, brother and grandfather are or were all pilots. I got good grades and graduated near the top of my class. I am fit and have 20/20 uncorrected vision. Same as with any career I expected to make the sacrifice and to then have a fair chance at my goals. Most of the guys I grew up with hated flying but loved the lifestyle and pay. The advent of the career hobby pilot is a recent one.

My plan was to build a real estate empire on the side as I flew for a living. As it turned out flying was more of an obstacle than an asset to those aims. Once I jettisoned the career my real estate goals began to come faster. Still however it would have been much easier with a solid well paying career by my side. I do not mind flying and even miss it however I am not going to do it for slave wages. I have a family to support.

Skyhigh

 

The post office is still a good employer. It is a service that is granted by the constitution. It is not intended to be a business. Imagine if they took financial measure of the military what its numbers would look like.

Skyhigh

 

A few make it to the big time and lord over the rest of us. They are able to support a full personal life along with being able to fly. Most of the rest struggle with B or C grade forms of aviation employment. We do the same jobs and often fly the same equipment but at half or less of the income.

The system is designed to entrap thousands who hold the same dream but the majority will never make it past mailman wages. Employers take advantage of our addiction and use it to enslave us to our dreams. Time goes by and the afflicted do not perceive how slowly they are selling off their personal life goals.

Eventually however the mental haze dissipates and the addict is able to take measure of what has been lost when it is too late to change.

Skyhigh

 

Everyone in your "graduating class" was a naive idiot, then.

What "sacrifice?" You never made a sacrifice. You gave up.

Then again, which graduation was it? As NWdc10 you never flew at all...but started college and graduated two months later. As your own alter ego, you simply failed at a career that you never really attempted.

Who "graduates" from a class that expects to be an airline pilot? What school churns out airline pilots? Were you one of the two hundred fifty hour wonders who thought you'd rush to Mesa or some other bottom feeding outfit that hired kids and paid poverty wages?

You continue to whine about your naivety and stupidity as though someone on God's green earth ought to have sympathy for you, and it's very hard to be anything but embarrassed for you. You're embarrassing yourself. You feel that you're rehearing the poor-me drama, and you don't understand the play. This little one-man act of yours (discounting all the other schitzo personalities that haunt you) is about a person who never took the time to know, who gave up, who couldn't do what tens of thousands around him managed to do, who never got so far as making the sacrifices required to be a success, and who continues to blame the industry in which he claims to have failed for his own laziness and lack of success.

You doubt a lot of things. Yourself. The industry. Yada, yada, yada. All things that you do not know.

My brother made much greater sacrifices than you to enter the veterinary field, and now owns two practices, has raised a successful family and taken on another. He did it because it was what he felt driven to do; it was never about the money. He couldn't have done it if he felt it was just about money. It was a passion, and he grew into the field that was meant to define his life. Just like many of us did with flying.

Clearly yours wasn't in aviation, and never will be. Get over it. You can bet everyone else has.

 

THANK YOU, John Burke!

i wish your posts would somehow make sense to Sky and show him how ridiculous he sounds every time he makes his woe-is-me posts. Apparently not.

He sounds like a spoiled brat who is STILL upset years later that he wasn't able to start off as a 777 captain, flying to London, Rome and Paris for 40 hour layovers 3 times a month, earning $250K a year. EVERY field has sacrifices that need to be made IF you are serious enough and want it bad enough.

 

LNL76,

What I have seen are those who have invested years of their lives into an empty dream that leaves them alone of broke in the end. If you want it bad enough you will get it but at what cost?

You should expect a 777 and a kings ransom. The price of this profession is punishing.

Skyhigh