Be careful what you wish for. Money and a comfortable job in an office isnt all what its cracked up to be. Personal satisfaction and fullfillment is what is truly important when it comes to work.

 

Washing my hands of this thread. It is painfully obvious that flight schools have posed incognito to trick unsuspecting people to committing to a life of squalor, missed holidays etc, and career disappointment. Plus, you'll lose that "feeling" for general aviation. Good luck to all!

 

When U get real people who are willing to exchange their real 100k plus jobs in return for your Crappy regional job then U accuse them of being a imposters.......

This is something that you have not seen & are not used to see & experience, that is why you find it hard to digest & therefore you are having GAS PROBLEMS AS A RESULT........

I am real & so is FLYWIFE, I know who her Husband is, where he works & I am pretty sure about a few other people here, they are all real.....

Where is the guarantee that you are not an imposter.......

 

At time when the economy is faltering, unemployment is the highest it has been in 29 years, and who knows what will happen to interest rates now that the US has been downgraded, only a fool would voluntarily take an eighty percent pay cut.

 

Very true, SIR, agree with you 100%,........

BUT Since, smart people are either leaving this industry or not coming in anymore, so, fools have to step in & replace them now...

 

Yep, you take work home with you, and we generally don't. But my "typical" work day is about 13 hours long. So, which is worse?

You have meetings and BS all day long. I spend upwards of eight hours per day, locked in a room the size of a walk in closet with a guy who I may hate: that guy who has questionable hygiene, talks about the boil he just had lanced, b!tches about the company incessantly, and critiques everything you do.

Where else can you get hours? Hmm, let me think... I have instructed, ferried planes, sight seeing tours hauled boxes, moved patients, and spotted sailfish in the Keys (admittedly, that job was only a few days, and I was paid in liquor). There are a zillion other ways to build time: traffic watch, banner towing, pipeline patrol, hot shot delivery, photography, hauling jumpers, and on and on. Heck, you have your own 172 don't you? How about hanging out a shingle for sight seeing right now? It has been years since I dealt with that part of the regs, but if I remember (somebody correct me if I am wrong), but VFR non-stop sight seeing flights that depart and terminate at the same location and remain within 25 miles don't require anything other than a commercial cert and 100 hour inspections.



When you get your time and "get out", just where are you going to go? Gone are the days of "I'm gonna get my 1000 TPIC and go to XYZ mainline." There are tens of thousands of pilots who already have several years of TPIC all ahead of you...... oh, and they have the contacts that will help them get an interview. Do you?

 

I'll trade my 65K salary non flying for your 120K salary. Let's do this I sell parts for business jets so you are in the aviation business and its half your salary so not as bad as losing 3/4's of your pay deal? Ok deal.

 

... no wonder we are poorly compensated!!!

 

Wrong answer..
The deal is to trade the AIRLINE PILOT JOB of my choice with my JOB.....

If it is a sales job, I already have one sales job, as far being in aviation, we are already in aviation.
Baron already owns a plane, flying the $100 hamburger & scenic routes doesn't cut it for us...... It's as simple as that .....

 

I think you drank too much of the Kool-Aid.