Have you ever dumped a significant other for a airline career?

[willbob]

Women come and go. Aviation will always be there for you. If your significant other was THAT significant, they would not ask you to stop pursuing your lifelong dream.

Bingo!

If she/he hates flying what else are you going to give up for them? sunday football, guns, muscle cars, going out with your friends, porn, and the list goes on and on.

I think of that ad for some internet dating site, which I am sure we have all seen at 3 in the morning because the drunk hockey parents woke you up on the high speed, "Oh my favorite sport? football!" yeah right until she whats to start picking out babyroom colors on a Sunday afternoon.

Doesn't matter if its aviation if they won't support you; run, don't walk, but run away.

 

[OrphicSeth]

It's all about finding the right significant other here folks. Then there's nothing to worry about. That doesn't mean there's never a need to do some MX once in a while, but ideally, both sides realize the other person is just that, another person, and respects them for that, and supports them as necessary. Not exactly rocket science, but it takes work and patience, rewarded with big dividends.

 

[711-24-7]

I would not even think about it, and point her to a door!!!!

 

[paid4training]

I waz married for 3 years when one day in an disagreement she told me she did not want me to be a pilot. Why couldn't I get a 9 to 5 job like everyone else...I told her I did not want her to be a freakin teacher, she smelled like chalk and corndogs. Well we lasted about a month after that. Then I saw her like 3 years later and she had gained like 100 pnds so it kindda worked out in the end.

Flows before ho's man...lol

 

[11thHour]

Dont do it...not for this career!

Truth! It would be a cold day in hell before I'd give up on my wife for any job, let alone this job!

 

[satpak77]

Women come and go. Aviation will always be there for you. If your significant other was THAT significant, they would not ask you to stop pursuing your lifelong dream.

and...

Truth! It would be a cold day in hell before I'd give up on my wife for any job, let alone this job!

go get 'em guys. That airline job or corporate gig will always be there, won't it. Don't give up the dream. And when you retire and get old I am sure it will change your pee bag and visit you in the nursing home.

Don't forget to re-up your Kit Darby subscription this year by the way

 

[BEfly]

I was fortunate enough to have both. But I don't know what will happen once I get hospitalized due to liver disease, or lung cancer, or when I get laid off.

 

[Dumb Pilot]

It is a lot more difficult to find the "right one" than it is to get a flying job

 

[WAZUP]

Had a significant other break up with me, best thing that ever happened she was a head case and had a kid. On the other hand she has implants now so that would have been kinda fun, call me shallow i guess.

 

[Guitar Guy]

I did the 9-to-5 engineering gig for the first 8 years of my marriage and then started flying. My wife was very supportive of the career change despite the hardships that it placed on her, from having to move to having to deal with a lot of things when I'm gone. Thank God she continues to feel that way today.

Placing a job above someone you really love indicates a very warped sense of values.