Goose Egg
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pilotyip said:
Pilotyip and I haven't always seen eye to eye in the past, but I've got to say that I really appreciate his attititude in this thread. I think there are a lot of reasons to become bitter and jaded in this industry, but yip refuses to think like that, and I think it's great. I mean, it's true that I'm still doing my instructing, so I really don't yet know what flying is really about. However, I've been instructing long enough to have become sick of it (somewhere around 400 dual given), yet that still hasn't happened to me. I thank my lucky stars everyday that I get to fly for a living and I'm not stuck in an office. It's true that there is a lot of doom and gloom in the industry, but there is also promise.
Oh, and speaking of the pilot shortage, I don't know if there actually is one. What I do know, however, is that right now at the entry level, you shouldn't apply to anyone that you aren't actually interested in working for or that you aren't ready to shift your life around for (that is, of course, unless you need the practice or you have taken up interviewing as a hobby.) I sent out a couple resumes in the name of experimentation and networking, thinking that it would be I while before I heard anything (if I ever did.) I got called for interviews on both. In the end, I decided it would be better for me to instruct a little longer (meaning that I'm holding out for another job somewhere else while I'm building PIC and multi), but still, it goes to show that there are jobs to be had. They weren't super well-paying jobs, but they were more than I am making instructing. And I don't expect to be paid super-well at the entry level anyway. I wouldn't expect that in any career.
-Goose
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My though, that pay scale sure goes up quickly doesn't it?
