budget tips?
12-21-2024 | 06:36 AM
#11
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Imagine securing your dream job, Getting paid to fly jets to the far corners of the world, and being worried if you were going to spend more than $35 or $50 on a layover?
No pilot has ever lay on their death bed and thought, “I wish I spent even less on my layovers.”
I look at the replies on these year-end threads about salary survey and think what a shame it is that some of these pilots, with such high incomes, are just trying to figure out how to skimp on layovers where they spend almost half of their lives. That’s sad.
Enjoy your layovers. Travel well. Eat well. Experience things. Splurge. Treat your crew. You’ll appreciate going to work a lot more than the cheapskate pilots.
No pilot has ever lay on their death bed and thought, “I wish I spent even less on my layovers.”
I look at the replies on these year-end threads about salary survey and think what a shame it is that some of these pilots, with such high incomes, are just trying to figure out how to skimp on layovers where they spend almost half of their lives. That’s sad.
Enjoy your layovers. Travel well. Eat well. Experience things. Splurge. Treat your crew. You’ll appreciate going to work a lot more than the cheapskate pilots.
12-24-2024 | 05:06 PM
#12
Gets Weekends Off
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From: Window seat
Hungry? I eat. "But the company's going to give us a free meal in 2 hours." Who cares, I'm hungry now. What's per diem - $3/hr? So you go on a 3 day 50+ hour 3 day and get $150 in per diem? To feed you above and beyond any meals on the airplane? For normal trips I'd probably struggle to burn through all the per diem on a typical trip. Newbies on the crew? My expenditures went up as Captain. Decided to buy the crew dinner overseas, or pickup up the bar tab, or buy breakfast burritos for the crew, up to 2x a month towards the end of my career, it went to several hundred bucks per trip. Max was probably $700. More often around $300-400 as not everyone on the crew joined us. So net was maybe close to break-even, or slightly negative, on actual expenses vs per diem for the entire month? Oh well.
You can't underspend vs per diem on a trip just paying for yourself???
You can't underspend vs per diem on a trip just paying for yourself???
12-24-2024 | 05:10 PM
#13
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From: Window seat
This reminds me of the FO who dumped his F/A GF and realizing there was a train wreck in her future. "I can't save any money!" "How are you NOT saving any money?!?!" "I can't." He looks up her expenses - doing nails, facials, massages, almost every trip. "You're living like you're making MORE money than I am. It's not your income that's the problem, it's your expenditures. Quit doing all the massages and facials on the road and put that money into savings. That will be thousands a year." She was more interested in spending money than getting her act together....he bolted.
03-06-2025 | 04:08 PM
#15
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check out Monarch Money. It’s inexpensive, app is intuitive, and the folks I work with seem to like it.
04-27-2025 | 05:58 AM
#16
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