Live where you want?

[sardinesnack]

There is a story two pilots live in Atlanta, both want to spend the rest of their lives in ATL. Both set their sights on DAL while CFIing. Pilot A takes 135 job in CCVG, Pilot B continues applying to DAL, a couple years later pilot A gets hired by ComAir, pilot B is still CFIing. 5 years later pilot A is hired by DAL, pilot B is still CFIing. What is the morale to this story "You have left your hometown for awhile to make it in this business".

Your forgetting the rest of the moral of the story, Pilot A takes heavy concessions. Pilots A and A 1/2 at comair get furloughed, Pilot A has nervous breakdown and ends up sweeping the hallways at local High School while Pilot A 1/2 takes lousy job at Expressjet. Pilot B eventually gets Corporate Job and lives happily ever after on 50K a year never having left beloved Atlanta.

 

[Alex429595]

Your forgetting the rest of the moral of the story, Pilot A takes heavy concessions. Pilots A and A 1/2 at comair get furloughed, Pilot A has nervous breakdown and ends up sweeping the hallways at local High School while Pilot A 1/2 takes lousy job at Expressjet. Pilot B eventually gets Corporate Job and lives happily ever after on 50K a year never having left beloved Atlanta.

Whats wrong with stepping outside your comfort zone, and looking for the jobs where the jobs exist? Several people have mentioned leaving your town to take an "intermediary" type of job, and then coming back. Is there no such thing as a permanent job somewhere other than your hometown? A good flying job seems to be a rare thing in this industry, and thats when you put in applications all over the place. I can't imagine how much more difficult it would be to limit yourself to one small area.

 

[mcjohn]

"happily ever after on 50K a year never having left beloved Atlanta."

What's so beloved about 4.5 million people slammed in a city that can't really hold that many (I lived there for a year). For 50k a year you'd better buy an eco-car and live an hour south of Atl.

 

[Goose Egg]

In my limited experience:

*You have to leave your hometown. If I had stayed in SLC where I grew up and did most of my flight training, I wouldn't have nearly opportunity that I have now. Speaking of which...

*Mountain weather can definitely be hazardous and difficult to cope with, but on a day to day to day basis, New England weather offers more of a challenge. The two can be equally extreme, it's just that New England is extreme a lot more often.

*We all should take up golf. Walk the course. It's good for the soul.

*Go PATS!!!

-Goose

 

[sardinesnack]

I was just having some fun with you guys. My situation is I left my hometown 10 years ago for flying. I've been with the same company for six years as an RJ captain and have moved quite a-lot for the job. Though moving around so much wears on the family and you after doing it for awhile. I'm sure I still have some more moves left in me yet to go if I want to fly something bigger than an RJ, though I'm finally realizeing if you let it this job will just keep moving you around if you keep chaseing a bigger airplane. The next move is going to be to a hanger home where i can play with my toys and the wife and kid all at once.

 

[ePilot22]

PATS are welcome anytime.

*Go PATS!!!

Yeah, go to Denver and get spanked by the DONKEYS!!! :beer:

http://www.nflspain.com/fotos/cheerleaders/broncos-kollette.jpg


eP.

 

[pilotyip]

What you will find in moving is that after you lived some place for about 5-7 years that is now your home. You become comfortable, you make new friends, establish new relationships Doctors, Dentists, and CPA's. Now you loose your job in this new place and have to go back to the first place, you did not want to move from and it is not what you remember. Your old friends have moved away, they have new friends. Your old Doc is no longer in practice. The military made us move every 2-3 years, but it was different you never really established in the community, your friends were in your squadron, your services were on base, and you expected to move in a couple years.

 

[Goose Egg]

Yeah, go to Denver and get spanked by the DONKEYS!!!

Donkeys eh? You said it, not me. Then again, if the Rockies played in my hometown, I'd have poor self-esteem too.

-Goose

 

[ePilot22]

It has nothing to do with poor self-esteem.

DONKEYS! They earned that name in the late 80s and early 90s. I like it. Most people in Denver don't, but it's fitting!


eP.

 

[Ender]

It has nothing to do with poor self-esteem.

DONKEYS! They earned that name in the late 80s and early 90s. I like it. Most people in Denver don't, but it's fitting!


eP.

"Donkeys", you betray your fellow coloradoans.

 

[G21Agoose]

As Sheryl Crow says, the important thing is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. I wish I would have realized that about ten years ago.

I CANNOT believe someone is quoting Sheryl Crow.

PPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEEESSSSSEEEEE!

 

[Alex429595]

As Sheryl Crow says, the important thing is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. I wish I would have realized that about ten years ago.

I CANNOT believe someone is quoting Sheryl Crow.

PPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEEESSSSSEEEEE!

Yea I was thinking the same thing.:erm:

 

[landlover]

ahhhhhhhhh denver, the sunshine state!!