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Old 12-16-2020, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Sperrysan View Post
Just go to high end escort school instead.
That's my backup if my side career as a deep sea welder doesn't pan out.
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Old 12-16-2020, 05:36 PM
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What about the dream of making 350k working 10 days/month...
Is this still a dream for us pilots ? I guess if we stick around for 30 years.....smh
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Old 12-16-2020, 05:40 PM
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That's my backup if my side career as a deep sea welder doesn't pan out.
I might have to join you in that career, because waiting for this “recovery” is going too take ages
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Old 12-17-2020, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by rswitz View Post
That's my backup if my side career as a deep sea welder doesn't pan out.
Good money, but that will wear on your body unless you can stay pretty shallow.
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Old 12-17-2020, 07:06 AM
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Good money, but that will wear on your body unless you can stay pretty shallow.
I don’t think snorkeling welders get paid as much.
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Old 12-17-2020, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by coodrough568 View Post
learn to weld silver and gold and then go to Dubai and underwater weld their swimming pools
And repair their superyacht hulls.
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Old 12-17-2020, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by rswitz View Post
That's my backup if my side career as a deep sea welder doesn't pan out.
Legit looked into once, got turned off by the fact you don't get to really do any diving the first year or two. Man the boat and the air/electrical lines for a while before you ever get to do anything exciting.

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Old 12-17-2020, 11:58 PM
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Legit looked into once, got turned off by the fact you don't get to really do any diving the first year or two. Man the boat and the air/electrical lines for a while before you ever get to do anything exciting.

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my wife says I’m good at crop dusting the house. Maybe I can turn that into a career!
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Old 12-18-2020, 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by EhV8R View Post
Legit looked into once, got turned off by the fact you don't get to really do any diving the first year or two. Man the boat and the air/electrical lines for a while before you ever get to do anything exciting.

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I think a lot of pilots don’t realize there are a lot of good paying jobs out there that don’t require working in an office and dealing with those politics. With my degree and experience as an airline pilot I was able to find a great paying job very similar to aviation schedules. I also get to work with great guys, it’s very exciting, I genuinely help people and I never have to take my work home with me. All I knew was aviation growing up and thought that was the only thing that would make me happy. I was beyond pleased to find a good paying career I love that fulfills me and involves zero desk time.
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Old 12-18-2020, 05:53 AM
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I think a lot of pilots don’t realize there are a lot of good paying jobs out there that don’t require working in an office and dealing with those politics. With my degree and experience as an airline pilot I was able to find a great paying job very similar to aviation schedules. I also get to work with great guys, it’s very exciting, I genuinely help people and I never have to take my work home with me. All I knew was aviation growing up and thought that was the only thing that would make me happy. I was beyond pleased to find a good paying career I love that fulfills me and involves zero desk time.
Not throwing shade, I think it's great that you found something like that (and I'm jealous, except for the aviation schedules part, being away from home is the worst aspect for me), but I am curious how hard it is on the body.

There are some good jobs out that that have nice schedules that I'm just not interested in because they destroy your body, which I'm not super interested in after being in the military.
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