Flying is expensive, life is depressing

[UnAnswerd]

Estimated monthly expenses:

Loan payment 151
All credit 140
Fuel 70
Food 100
Tool payments 80
Insurance 130
Flying 745

Total 1416
Income 1520

Expendable 104
Conclusion Suicide?

Yeah, I'm a crybaby, and no, I wont give up flying....

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Hang in there, I'm sure Tony C will be along to console you.

 

[semperfido]

give up eating

 

[eggman76]

How does one live on $3/day for food?

 

[Flying Illini]

food is only $100 a month?! That looks like the budget I made for myself when I started college...then my dad laughed in my face. I now know why. Good luck living on $3 a day.

 

[psysicx]

Top Ramen

 

[UnAnswerd]

food is only $100 a month?

I live with my parents, so yeah. The $100 acounts for going to Wendys durring my lunch break every day. I could afford to live on my own, but I wouldn't be able to fly without working 2 fulltime jobs....

 

[sky37d]

I live with my parents, so yeah. The $100 acounts for going to Wendys durring my lunch break every day. ....

Pack your lunch, you are now $100 ahead every month.

An old slogan I saw read:
"I felt bad because I had no shoes,
Then I saw a man with no feet"

 

[clumpinglitter]

Estimated monthly expenses:
Tool payments 80

I think I'm going to start categorizing flight instruction as "tool payments", as I function as a tool and pay for the privilege. How's that for whining?
-C.

 

[sky37d]

I think I'm going to start categorizing flight instruction as "tool payments", as I function as a tool and pay for the privilege. How's that for whining?
-C.

I like your blog.

 

[Kream926]

tool payment?

i didnt know there was a monthly fee to be one

 

[FN FAL]

tool payment?

i didnt know there was a monthly fee to be one

Hahaha!

Hey Una, look at the bright side! When you got 800 hours, you'll meet the insurance mins for some dropzone and you'll get to fly for free!

 

[bigD]

Hahaha!

Hey Una, look at the bright side! When you got 800 hours, you'll meet the insurance mins for some dropzone and you'll get to fly for free!

Just guard the d*mned ignition key when you fly jumpers! I made this mistake only once.

 

[Metro752]

Estimated monthly expenses:

Loan payment 151
All credit 140
Fuel 70
Food 100
Tool payments 80
Insurance 130
Flying 745

Total 1416
Income 1520

Expendable 104
Conclusion Suicide?

Yeah, I'm a crybaby, and no, I wont give up flying....

Your insurance? Car Insurance, 130/month, mines like 60 with Allstate, hahahaha. Then again my neighbor is my agent

 

[Fly_Chick]

UnAnswered - where there is a will, there is a way. Somehow things always seem to work out in the end. If you want something deeply enough, you will find a way to make it work. Creativity and ingeunity really come into play here.

 

[Pilot124]

Just think how much better it will get when you become a CFI. 14 hour days, food stamps, ramon noodles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You think you're broke now......Just wait

 

[TDTURBO]

Your insurance? Car Insurance, 130/month, mines like 60 with Allstate, hahahaha. Then again my neighbor is my agent

Good luck getting out of their breach of contract when they put substandard non-OEM parts on your car or the guy that rear-ends you has Allstate and they give you 500 bucks for a herniated disk or they drop you for your first claim in 10 years.

THE REASON FOR THIS IS SIMPLE, THEY HAVE A THOUSAND PANEL ATTORNIES THAT DO NOTHING BUT TRY CASES AND CAUSE YOU GRIEF.

Allstate was rated dead last in Consumers reports for the last 5 years for good reason, excluding sub-standard, which many attorneys believe Allstate is.


They SUCK!


THE ONLY TYPE OF "GOOD HANDS" YOU ARE IN ARE MICHAEL JACKSONS HANDS ABOUT TO BE MOLESTED.


You'll see who's laughing then.

 

[Goose Egg]

State Farm, just for the record, ~$80/mo.

So what you are telling us is that you get to fly, and you have money left over? I guess I'm not seeing where the problem is.

-Goose

P.S. Pack your lunch. There's a lot better things you could do with $100 than blowing it on fast food.

 

[Snakum]

I feel your pain. You sound like me, two years ago. The difference is that I was in my late 30s, had child support to pay, and couldn't live at home with Mom (I asked ... she said H@ll No! ). But still I feel ya dog. After the Dot Com bust in 2000-2001, I actually lived in my car and took showers in the gym for a while.

Now I'm finishing up the ratings and I'm flying trips in a King Air about once a week. The only guarantees in life are change, change, and more change (along with death and taxes). Your situation may be radically different just days from now. Who knows. So hang tuff.

If you want it badly enough ... you'll find a way.


Minh

 

[Metro752]

THE ONLY TYPE OF "GOOD HANDS" YOU ARE IN ARE MICHAEL JACKSONS HANDS ABOUT TO BE MOLESTED.

I wonder if Michael uses Allstate now

 

[Immelman]

Oh to be a student. I lived on quite a bit less when I was still living with my parents, but then I couldn't afford 700/mo on flying. Spent $2-4 daily on food.... one piece of advice: DITCH the Wendy's as fast as you can... go rent "Supersize Me" and you'll see why I feel that way.

I would seek out the best deals around town on food. In any given college town there are usually a few that are worth it. An otherwise expensive small local grocer near campus had a deli sandwich for about $5 that was 2.5 meals easy (and I ate a lot at the time.. these were so tall you could barely take a bite wihtout dislocating your jaw).... in the town I live now there is a pizza joint with a big slice, a very large salad, and drink for $5... a pretty good deal... I'd take the daily pizza slice over Wendy's any day.

What the hell are tool payments? Porn website fees? =)

 

[say again]

Welcome to the real world of flying!!!! HAHAHA


Seriously, we've all probably been there and managed top make it through. You just have to set your priorities and make sacrifices. Good luck to ya!!

 

[fly4'em]

I couldn't help myself and i have to give you this answer:
look into this link and you will see what a regional pilot makes a year.

http://www.willflyforfood.cc/Payscales/PayScales.htm

and that is before taxes.

hang in there, the first few years the QOL sucks but everything after that is uphill.

 

[say again]

hang in there, the first few years the QOL sucks but everything after that is uphill.

Do you mean to say downhill???

 

[Immelman]

Allstate was rated dead last in Consumers reports for the last 5 years for good reason, excluding sub-standard, which many attorneys believe Allstate is.

They SUCK!

Off topic but I agree about All state. THe only accident I've been in - not at fault and the police even said so - Allstate represented the other driver. They kept insisting that I was "partially" at fault. I won't go ito specifics but it was pretty cut and dried.... I later spoke with a former adjuster who said she left Allstate because of the partial liability BS. The idea is to prevent them from paying the entire bill. Our respective insurance companies had to go to arbitration hearings, and after a full year, I won, and got my stinking deductable back in full... Yes, Allstate sucks.

 

[TurboS7]

Just put a column in your logbook called static sim, then get on your computer program and go all over the world. You can can yourself captain and put the time in the PIC column. Enjoy life, believe me the ILS looks the same at 200 feet at BIKF from the computer as it does in real life.

 

[TurboS7]

How to survive is the challenge, I can remember camping under an overpass in Anchorage and going to McDonald's with only $3.00 cash in my pocket. I had to pay for breakfast for three people out of that three dollars. Sometimes life is tough but usually that is when it becomes fun.

 

[clumpinglitter]

I like your blog.

Thanks. I'm beginning to hate it. Actually, that's going too far, but being a student is getting old.
-C.