Silent skies
#31
I've been a ramp rat, a construction worker building houses in summer heat, phone network installer, ran a mowing company for a few years, owned a small business, worked in factory's and warehouses (once at a has brown processing company), worked as a farm hand, a fast food worker, and so on throughout my life.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
#32
I've been a ramp rat, a construction worker building houses in summer heat, phone network installer, ran a mowing company for a few years, owned a small business, worked in factory's and warehouses (once at a has brown processing company), worked as a farm hand, a fast food worker, and so on throughout my life.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
#33
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 3,624
I've been a ramp rat, a construction worker building houses in summer heat, phone network installer, ran a mowing company for a few years, owned a small business, worked in factory's and warehouses (once at a has brown processing company), worked as a farm hand, a fast food worker, and so on throughout my life.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
#34
I've been a ramp rat, a construction worker building houses in summer heat, phone network installer, ran a mowing company for a few years, owned a small business, worked in factory's and warehouses (once at a has brown processing company), worked as a farm hand, a fast food worker, and so on throughout my life.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
I'd find myself always looking up when a plane flew over. Started flying regularly at age 12 and ended up making the decision and commitment to become an airline pilot then. I didn't actually start u til I was 23 and got my first airline job just in time for the 2008 ordeal.
All I can say is, even on it's worst day (layovers, penalty box's, delays, grumpy pax or FA's, mx issues, etc), this "job" is by far the most rewarding and amazing opportunities out there. Sure, we can always make more money or be home more but the views we see, the machines we operate, and the stories we fill our memories with are, for lack of better words, priceless.
When the economy broke in 2008, I spent a long number of years doing odd jobs here and there just to help make ends meet. It got so bad at one point, I was hunting coyotes for livestock farmers making $35 per coyote just to help protect their herds. Every time a plane would fly over, some of them I had flown, my heart just sank a little further because I knew where I belonged but couldn't be there, no matter how bad I wanted it or how hard I tried. Even with my qualifications at the time, the economy just destroyed any chance of me flyi g for anyone.
If you're not passionate about this "job" anymore, leave. Make room the guys/girls that are stuck in the ground that have that desire to be there.
Do not take it for granted. Jobs are complicated but dlyi g is easy and amazing.
#35
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2018
Posts: 171
Yeah no. Not me at least. I have kids in Frat houses and I have done a lot of jobs in my life. Let’s not try and always over simplify things down to absolutes. People can be willing so to a job and choose to stay at same job without having pie in the sky feeling a about it. People can also have an opinion based on facts, not just some lack of experience frat analogy like you want to say.
#36
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Joined APC: Jul 2017
Posts: 894
Exaclty. I’ve worked in factories, I’ve worked minimum wage food service, office jobs, etc. Flying gives me the best balance between QOL and money that someone with my skill set could hope for. Doesn’t mean I enjoy going to work, but it hasn’t forced me to leave for greener pastures. I’m just not passionate about it. It’s a job.
#37
Yeah no. Not me at least. I have kids in Frat houses and I have done a lot of jobs in my life. Let’s not try and always over simplify things down to absolutes. People can be willing so to a job and choose to stay at same job without having pie in the sky feeling a about it. People can also have an opinion based on facts, not just some lack of experience frat analogy like you want to say.
I'm talking about those who complain bitterly, despite have a better deal than most of their age-group socio-economic peers.
#38
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Posts: 692
Flying jobs may pay more than most people could get in anything else especially without a specialized degree. However the QOL part of aviation is a huge negative trade off. Flying especially in the airlines is an entire lifestyle not just a job. I never made it out of the regionals but the whole constant traveling, in and out of hotels and being gone all the time lifestyle was a dealbreaker for me.
#39
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Posts: 692
I do advise that if you are unhappy leave as early as possible. The longer you wait the older you get and the further away you get from any other type of valuable work experience and education. You will meet resistance trying to move on with nothing but a years long list of flying jobs. Also things like government jobs have maximum age restrictions for entry.
#40
Flying jobs may pay more than most people could get in anything else especially without a specialized degree. However the QOL part of aviation is a huge negative trade off. Flying especially in the airlines is an entire lifestyle not just a job. I never made it out of the regionals but the whole constant traveling, in and out of hotels and being gone all the time lifestyle was a dealbreaker for me.
But yeah, if nights away are a problem, it's not a good career.
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