DetoXJ
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- Oct 22, 2004
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I don't know why so many pilots possess the mentality that assumes airline pilots are the only profession that has to shell out some money for college and training. Regardless of whether you are a pilot, teacher, social worker, engineer, computer programmer, ect. you more than likely left college with debt and student loans. I know pilots have the added expense of flight training but most pilots I fly with did not attend big buck universities like U of Michigan or Northwestern where tuition costs 35K per year. Students graduate these institutions with mega student loans and debt and go on to become teachers and social workers and politicans and they get by just fine making middle class wages. A lot of airline pilots will be in for a very rude awakening when they go find out that Home Depot and McDonalds only start out at $7 or $8 per hour. If you want to drive a bus or haul garbage then you can maybe find a $13 or $15 per hour job. It is completely naive to believe that $40,000 - $50,000 jobs exist in abundance. $60K - $80K per year even rarer. NWA average pilot salary after 1113c hearings, good luck replacing that income. Rude awakenings await.