Job offers....and similar stories?!?!?

[TxPilot0878]

You know it still amazes me....you search, beg, steal, plead with your life and yet there are no job offers. Then you take a job and they pour like rain. I know there is no such think as loyalty in this industry or for the most part...but I would like to share this current job I hold...as even yet today I have received 3 more offers!
I work for a company that sent me to type school where I also got my ATP....NO CONTRACT! They pay intially 40K...but with yearly (10-20%) increases depending on your reviews.
There is no per diem...but there are absolutely NO EXPENSES ON THE ROAD...3 squares a day (anything you want but I try to order in the middle...which runs $45-80 a day depending on where we eat). Plus if you need a toothbrush because you left it at home (actually its falling apart from your last job and you don't want to admit it)...AMERICANS IN DISTRESS to the rescue!
The most recent "add-on" is the boss/owner has a 3/2 he owns but doesn't use and after looking at me one day and asking why I drive such a beater (to which I replied..."because it is paid for!") offers for me to live in his unused house on 7 1/2 acres (all bills included) for free. He wants me to save up and get some nice things(car,boat,house...WIFE...OK HELL NO!!!). The only thing he asks is that I mow the property with a tractor he will provide!!!!
I accepted telling him I would furnish the place...when I arrived HE HAD SET UP DELIVERIES TO HAVE IT COMPLETELY FURNISHED...and asked that I please be there to accept all the new furniture, oversee the new carpet and paint!
....and yet I still look at these other job offers.....dumb I know but that greener grass will be the downfall of me....

Please do not take this as a boasting letter or message...I needed to write it more to remind myself of what I had than what I could receive monetarily...but for all that being said I still fault and want it all at once...I continually look at who is hiring what they are paying and updating my online resumes. I know that a rainy day could come in as easily as 10 minutes...it has before.
I am thankful for all the small blessings that come each day...and for the fact that we have the coolest jobs in the world and that we are blessed enough to do it.

I wouldn't go through all the heartache I have been through to be here again!

I was just wondering if any of you ever doubt yourselves the same way...and still seek and search...wonder and key up at that $ sign?!?!?

Blue Skies and God Bless,

Tex

 

[thatpilotguy]

Now that's a gig. But I find myself doing much the same thing. Not with as much glamour or glory. I have a good job. We don't get payed the most, nor do we have flashy benefits or free-bees, but I continue to update my resume and log book, keep my eyes and ears open to the happenings around my airport. I too have recently had multiple job offers that pay more and have better benefits than I currently have. Loyalty you ask...I don't necessarily think it's our generations attribute. We watched how loyalty blistered in the face of career airline pilots, even my parents that are not in the industry took "early" retirements as a result of their expensive benefits packages where being eliminated. Why do I stay at my current employer even though there are other opportunities out there...well I hope that my "loyalty" will be rewarded in the long run. Someone once told me that the aviation world is only as big as the fastest airplane. It's amazing how much people know about one another. I hope that being a employee with good professional morals has it's bennefits when I need them the most. As you said, the grass is always greener, just remember to mow the lawn at your new home! (said with a jelous tone!)

 

[pilotpat]

Tx...sounds like the guy thinks you're a keeper. Unless he starts asking you to pick up his dry cleaning, I'd stick around for at least the typical year. He paid for your type/ATP ride without a contract...its the least you can do. Plus, sounds like you've got a great place to live for FREE!!! I can't tell you how many times I've looked at my wife and kids and wondered what it'd be like to not have a mortgage - they're expensive enough! If the guy is stand-up and nice to 'ya, why leave?

My deal is I currently am PIC for management/charter making pretty decent coin. I've got an app in at NJA more for the future than the cash. I'm looking at taking a $30K paycut to make the move. I've had more heartache over this you can't believe, but the NJA job is, in a couple words, more stable.

Don't ever stop looking around, but don't make any rash decisions 'cuz this guy seems to all ready be taking pretty good care of you.

 

[AA717driver]

"The Grass is Greener" is probably the worst disease you can have in corporate.

I've compared a lot of jobs to my current one and, when you figure the pay adjusted for region and the time off, everything is about equal. Sure there are some "brass ring" jobs out there but only for a select few with connections.

If you've got a good gig, don't stop considering but be very careful when you decide you've found a "better" job. JMO. TC

 

[Rxflyer]

Sounds like you have the most important part of the equation : quality of life !

Does this guy have a brother/sister in the Nashville area ? I know a guy....