Because it is still a great career, maybe not as good as it as used to be.
If you fly because you like to, are willing to take any job any where in the country that builds toward your next job. You will be successful in your career chioce. You need to be able to go through the paying your dues phase. It is hard, it is lots of moves, you go where the next job is, it is living in flop houses with 4 other pilots and one bathroom down the hall, it not buying any new underwear for one year, it is driving a car that you jump start from the battery you keep in the apt on a charger, it is being 100% subservient to your bosses wishes until you can move to your next job and he gives you a good recommendation. It is saying no to your brother’s birthday party, it is saying no to being home at Christmas. Come to think about it, this sounds alot like being in the Navy, except for the underwear part. They made us get new stuff. You need a talent for flying, you need a most gracious personality that focuses on what you can give and not what you can take, and a goal in sight that you will pursue no matter what. It will take up to 10 years to get to a career position. Family, girl fiends (more than one night), babies, do not count, they only get in the way. They will side track your career. I have had more than one flight student, older guys starting flying in their late 40's early 50's, tell me they wished they had it all to do over again, they would gone into flying as soon as they could of and stuck to it, but Suzy wanted the house, and the family lifestyle, and they thought there would be time later, but once the commitments come and you elect to honor them, there is no later. This line of thought will probably bring out some different views, because it so politically incorrect. But I am semi management in a bottom feeder industry, so what would I know about an aviation career. However, you ask, so here is my input from the prospective of 40 years in this business. The job comes first until you reach a career position.
