Let's have a nice laugh

[sluminginpit]

It seems a few threads contain discussions about low time guys who never earned their position. Let's for fun tell of our personal road less travelled stories.

While I instructed I also cooked in the kitchen and mowed the lawn at the airport I worked at. I had a radio and was called when they needed me.

My first airline job, I sat reserve for the first year while I commuted from SEA - PIT. I had to get a job waiting tables at BOB EVANS. I would actually commute from SEA to wait tables for 10 days and go home without even flying.

You gotta love what you do for this career!

 

[Cardinal]

How about that shocked, silent, hurt look on the faces of friends, family, and coworkers when you announce that you are moving 2000 miles away to fly an airplane they've never heard of for a company they've never heard of, to places they've never heard of.

 

[acaTerry]

And the looks when you come back because it broke your bank!

 

[Lil Jon]

logging 100 hrs of john deer time to pay for the commercial long cross country

 

[GEORGE DUBYA]

take out 43 loans from Sallie Mae too pay for a degree in Aviation and flying. Then have sallie mae ask for the money back when you make 19000 a year.

 

[SiuDude]

I had to fly to school, uphill, both ways.

 

[Lil Jon]

wish i made half that. that link is just wrong. it must have taken a lot of "hard work" "uuhhh its uhhhh its hard work, we have to be steadfast and strong..." --our fearless leader W Jr.

 

[Flying Illini]

Sitting in the airport parking booth listening to people complain and say that "it's free to park and fly out of Capital Airport in Springfield."
...I so wanted to say, "then why don't you fly out of springfield and then make the 1.5 hr drive back to champaign?!"

That was a terrible job...but at least there was a toilet in the booth.

"A dolla twenty five pleaz!"

I was also a school crossing guard (the hours worked great with my schedule) for a year...that job was just fine in the summer...but in the winter it REALLY wasn't any fun.

I managed to hold down three jobs as well as going to school for 6 months (then I graduated). I surprised even myself that I was able to do it.

 

[labbats]

Taking out loans for two years of flying that cost me more than four years at a big ten college. Working in a lumber yard at $9 an hour, busting my hump, then hitting that eureka moment when I realized that for every lesson I had to redo from slacking off was 20 hours of work lost. That made me quit and take out some loans in the interest of saving money. Weird how that works.

 

[GoZags]

gotta love writing the check to Great Lakes, and I'm not talking about the airline.

 

[SiuDude]

gotta love writing the check to Great Lakes, and I'm not talking about the airline.

...only 18 years to go.

 

[FlyChicaga]

Zags! Holy crap dude, I look at the pics of Napoleon Dynamite in your link. Who would have known??

 

[8HourPilot]

Lets move this thread to how much we all have out there in school loans.....oh man I am not even sure I want to admit it.

 

[Captain Overs]

How about that shocked, silent, hurt look on the faces of friends, family, and coworkers when you announce that you are moving 2000 miles away to fly an airplane they've never heard of for a company they've never heard of, to places they've never heard of.

Probably the most true statement that has been posted on this site in months!

 

[STINKER]

Haha Dejavu

gotta love writing the check to Great Lakes, and I'm not talking about the airline.

Yeah me too!! Great feeling !! darn intrest!!

 

[Instigator]

I paid my way through flight school by working in the circumcision department at the local hospital. The pay was lousy, but the tips were great.

 

[Captain Overs]

That is funny as hell! Please don't forget to tip your wait staff.

 

[crashpad]

I worked as a weather observer part-time for the FSS making more money than my full-time job as a pilot for Mesa. (kinda felt like God when the vis went down and my measurements dictated whether or not the flights could get in).
Also flight instructed while zooming around with Air Wisco. (Not sure which was more exciting).
Now I just sit here and watch my brothers climb that hill. Good luck, guys. It's still fun and rewarding to be in this adventure.

 

[CUEBOAT]

working part time as a waiter while going to school full time, I now make more money in one day than I did for two weeks work flying a lear 55, god do I wish this was not true.

 

[AMCKLC]

Sold cell phones at best buy. Sell four phones = 1 hours flight time