LAZYB
Time wounds all heels.
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2001
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Beers, bears, whatever.
Great taste. Less filling. No it ain't that simple. It's got to be... just right.
What's the deal...
I'm trying to build some more time, so I can get a "career" <cough> <cough> <gag> <LOL> position that's...just right.
Now through a complex series of "sure deals", paying my dues, 50/50 propositions, "dream jobs", creatively financed training, and marriage impairing opportunities, I've managed to end up on the outside looking in.
Luckily, <cough> <cough> I was finally able to land an airline job in '99 and a type in the 757 - which won't get you squat at Starbucks. Unluckily, the great unwashed and 9/11 finished off that accomplishment.
Apparently I'm under-qualified to be a Captain. I haven't flown a corporate jet since '99 and I'm now an ex-airline pilot, with all of the negative implications and "baggage" that entails. BUT, I'm over-qualified to be a co-pilot. AND there's no way I going to get in either seat of a Gulfstream, large Bombardier, or large Falcon, because I don't have any "time-in-type".
Through the process of elimination, I only qualified to be an "applicant". I'm not, ah...just right.
With a little effort and distraction, I was also able to qualify myself as a low-time float pilot and low-time helicopter pilot. Albeit, I flew for a Fortune 100 company as a medium-twin helicopter Captain.
The kicker is that the FO positions in the big corporate iron pay more than the Capt. positions in the a/c I flew for the DOD/Fortune companies, as a dual-rated Capt., and my commuted sentence as a fractional Captain.
If I apply for the heavy iron corporate FO position, paying $10-20k more than I've been paid to date, it's an indication that I have no ambition, confidence, leadership - NOR job. AND again, I have no time-in-type.
BUT then again it probably has something to do with not wanting to - move off the West Coast, move to the upper Midwest, Buffalo, the NE Corridor, SE, or work for the notorious POS operators that would consider hiring someone with out time-in-type...
I'm just reminiscing, not complaining.
So anyway, the beers. I can't find one... just right. No, that's not it either.
CSY Mon is going to buy me a beer, but the beer is in MIA.
Dam# !
Great taste. Less filling. No it ain't that simple. It's got to be... just right.
What's the deal...
I'm trying to build some more time, so I can get a "career" <cough> <cough> <gag> <LOL> position that's...just right.
Now through a complex series of "sure deals", paying my dues, 50/50 propositions, "dream jobs", creatively financed training, and marriage impairing opportunities, I've managed to end up on the outside looking in.
Luckily, <cough> <cough> I was finally able to land an airline job in '99 and a type in the 757 - which won't get you squat at Starbucks. Unluckily, the great unwashed and 9/11 finished off that accomplishment.
Apparently I'm under-qualified to be a Captain. I haven't flown a corporate jet since '99 and I'm now an ex-airline pilot, with all of the negative implications and "baggage" that entails. BUT, I'm over-qualified to be a co-pilot. AND there's no way I going to get in either seat of a Gulfstream, large Bombardier, or large Falcon, because I don't have any "time-in-type".
Through the process of elimination, I only qualified to be an "applicant". I'm not, ah...just right.
With a little effort and distraction, I was also able to qualify myself as a low-time float pilot and low-time helicopter pilot. Albeit, I flew for a Fortune 100 company as a medium-twin helicopter Captain.
The kicker is that the FO positions in the big corporate iron pay more than the Capt. positions in the a/c I flew for the DOD/Fortune companies, as a dual-rated Capt., and my commuted sentence as a fractional Captain.
If I apply for the heavy iron corporate FO position, paying $10-20k more than I've been paid to date, it's an indication that I have no ambition, confidence, leadership - NOR job. AND again, I have no time-in-type.
BUT then again it probably has something to do with not wanting to - move off the West Coast, move to the upper Midwest, Buffalo, the NE Corridor, SE, or work for the notorious POS operators that would consider hiring someone with out time-in-type...
I'm just reminiscing, not complaining.
So anyway, the beers. I can't find one... just right. No, that's not it either.
CSY Mon is going to buy me a beer, but the beer is in MIA.
Dam# !
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