Originally Posted by bluespoon (Post 3914450)

Some people take APC a little too seriously. You typing some things on here isn’t going to get the guy in class earlier. The days of making moves thinking you have any control over getting a job are pretty much over. All you can do now is just try to stay relevant in the game for the next opportunity. The guy is just venting.

Originally Posted by Tropicblunder (Post 3914312)

Thank you. Didn't know about planejobs either. I really can't stand people who expect things to be given to them, just feel out of my element nearing "underemployment". If delivering for UPS as a seasonal driver helps me get a call early, or if I can manage a job flying anything at all until hiring improves I will. I've never known anything with wings, wheels, fins, or jets that I can't pilot. I love it all, and I love adventure. I get along with everyone and won't rule anything out. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by JohnBurke (Post 3914311)

Circa 2009, I found myself furloughed, and beat the bushes hard for a job; I came up with a 135 job turning wrenches, doing some company instruction, night freight, etc. As furloughs continued, a steady stream of airline pilots passed through the hangar, looking for work. I told them what was available; a night piston freight run. Every one of them passed, many scoffed at the idea. They'd tell me that kind of work was a little beneath them. It wasn't long before they were back, hat in hand, asking if the job was still there. It was not.

When you can't find what you want, you find what you can. You work that until you find what you want. Job sites like planejobs a constantly showing more jobs. It costs a few dollars to subscribe to most of them, and a lot of it is government, utility, charter, etc. But it's a job. Not every job in the industry is with an airline. When you can't find what you want, find what you can.

Doesn't mean you stop pursuing what you want...but at least you get to eat, and it's a lot easier to get a job, when you have a job, current, operating, and ready. Taking what you can doesn't negate floating in the pool for what you want. Think about it. There are jobs out there. A lot of them, actually.

Originally Posted by MD11Simnerd (Post 3914950)

Where were you furloughed from in 2009?

Originally Posted by CardboardCutout (Post 3915010)

Guy will write a War and Peace worth of unsolicited advice, but dollars will get you donuts he won't tell you where he worked.

Originally Posted by CardboardCutout (Post 3915010)

Guy will write a War and Peace worth of unsolicited advice, but dollars will get you donuts he won't tell you where he worked.

Originally Posted by FTv3 (Post 3915167)

do you not get the point?

Originally Posted by CardboardCutout (Post 3915269)

I mean I think I get it. There's no need for a pursefight, I (and apparently a few others) just think some rando with no connection to brown showing up to write four paragraphs scolding some poor guy for being upset that he isn't getting a class date smacks of this not *really* being about helping anyone. This popping up in random conversations to put his critical oar in the water is sort of this guy's MO, and it usually ends up a lot like this time. He's like a troll with ADHD and a Thesaurus.

Originally Posted by MD11Simnerd (Post 3915333)

That's the kicker right there, much more to the story.

Originally Posted by ? (Post 3915333)

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