Food Stamps
 

I just found out that I almost qualify for foodstamps here in my state. All of this while the CEO of my company is a multi millionaire. This is so sad. I am an airline pilot transporting thousands of passengers a month. The funny thing is when people see me around the airport they think Im rolling in the cash....little do they know :(

Preaching to the choir my friend!

This is old news pal...............................instead of impressing girls with the "Im a pilot" line, shoulda busted your ass at Wharton and became a CEO

Orrrr just impress a rich girl maybe?

Now thats a great idea!

I'll be living on my sailboat in about two weeks back home. I don't work for an RJ yet but I am thinking of investing in a good freezer and some fishing poles to help bring in food. Also, I might have a garden at the parents house; potatoes, tomatoes, etc...Resorting to our hunting and gathering gene, as males, can help us broke a$$ pilots keep food on our table during times of financial famine, which seems an endless dirt road. I'm sure the wife will help aerate the soil, rotate the crops and reel in a fish from time to time while I'm on a trip. Instead of thinking about my next surboard, tri-bike or improvement to my sailboat, I'll be praying for rain to keep my crops healthy and clean water to keep the fish plentiful. Also might dig a water well somwhere on shore and fetch a few liters of it as needed.

Use the search engine on this topic; a few months ago there was a great discussion as well as links to websites. You will actually find out that you'll almost qualify but not.

You need to go the distance and have a kid or two...then you'll be fully qualified!

Wait until you are flying the line, and the CSA's and gate agents that are rude to you and treat you like garbage becuase you are an "EXPRESS" pilot, and they make way more money than we do................CLE has some awesome ground crews, CSA's etc, but in EWR, they are miserable, mean S.O.B's that get annoyed when you ask them to let you down..god forbid you interrupt there phone conversation................om I am starting to rant and the Yankees are on

yea get the food stamps

The boy gets it. Mainline "CS"As suck a$$. Lazy, rude, incompetent is a good start.

I had one in DTW tell me once that 'we only do lav services for mainline.' I told him, 'I don't care. They're not my passengers and I can't smell the $hit. The lav's in the back. They're YOU'RE passengers too!'.

No lav service. And a snobby "CS"A... What a tool.

If you don't love aviation in spite of all the negatives, get out NOW while you still have some sanity.

BTW, didn't anyone tell you you'd qualify for food stamps, etc. when you decided to do this? You didn't actually think that you'd earn what the dinos who fly 747s earn did you?

Explain CSA's.

CSA is a Customer Service Agent.

I put my "CS"A in quotes because to many of them the concept of "Customer Service" is a title only. Walk up to one some day and see if they even acknowledge your presence. And if they do it will be with the look and tone that your are interrupting something else much more important that they should be doing instead of serving a customer. They are especially rude to crew members in uniform and even more so if you are 'express'.

And be sure to shop with them while in uniform.

HaHaHaHa!! When I get my first jetjob, I'm going to do this! :D

We absolutely know we will qualify for medicaid and food stamps for at least the first year! The joys of being a pilot!! LOL! But hey, we get free air travel! LMBO!

IF you're looking for sympathy, forget it. You're the one who took the job with the low salary! It's a shame that pilots pay is so low, but just look in the mirror and point the finger.

it beats flight instructing.

Food Stamps
 

jdr:

Take the food stamps and keep moving. Do what you gotta do to get where you wanna be my friend; I know I have.

Blue skies.



atp

Good luck flying standby these days, nonrevving ain't what it use to be....:rolleyes:

I dont need your sympathy guy....Who do you work for... if I may??

Unfortunately, airline management is counting on guys like you who are willing to jump ship from instructing to work for $15-$19 hr. HSLD posted a great slide scale about wages. You can expect to earn less than minimum wage working for an airline for the amount of time you put in . . . But you get to brag that you fly jets. Right now there is more prestige driving Dump Trucks for Waste Management than there is being a pilot for an airline.

I agree with crewdawg52!

If pilot who could apply now. . . . WAITED for one year, and no one submitted applications or went to interviews . . . The TOWER will come falling down. Imagine. Regional pilots leaving for the majors, and NO ONE to take their place. IN A HURRY . . . . that's how fast regional management will raise wages.

I have 1400 hours dual given, 550 mel. 2000 TT Thats enough. I'm 23. Unfortunately the regionals don't pay well, but there isn't a better way to gain the experience required to go to the majors or to cargo at a quick rate. I've flown corporate for a while in a 310 and a malibu and I can say from experience that I think it sucks. Being tied to a cell phone isn't fun. At least you have days off at the airlines and after the first year it is livable. Who wants to make a career at the regionals anyway? Choose a good regional, that way if something happens that you stay there then life isn't that bad. Airlines have never paid well the first year. Stayin in instructing is a dead end once you've got the time to move on. Stayin in one place too long can be just as detrimental to a career as anything else. Instructing is hands down in my opinion the best way to get quality experience but there comes a time when you need to move on. The pay sucks the first year but you have to remember that you are investing in your self (the same way student loans are productive because you are getting an education). Unfortunately there is always someone who will work for cheaper. There is no way that anyone should sacrifice their time and wait for the regionals to pay more. It would be great if they did but its the experience and quality time we are chasing at the regionals, not the pay check.

Are you kidding me........................get a grip lady

I hate to admit this but she has a point. I know a few guys who drive garbage and dump trucks and get paid in the mid 50s to upper 70s and 80s. I couldn't believe but it's true. :confused: