mesa call

[CitationLover]

floyd94,

don't normal working people have 8 days off a month?

 

[lionflyer]

Normal working people get to sleep in their own beds every night.

 

[WrightAvia]

Normal working people get to sleep in their own beds every night.

Hahahaha! I have been DECLARED NORMAL by a poster on this board. Thanks Lionflyer!

 

[Cmdr Taggart]

Av8ter, if your bio is up to date and you are flying 135 King Airs and Merlins, stay where you are. I assume you are flying out of your home and get to get home quite a bit. When you get into 121 flying, yes it may be a jet, but you will be based somewhere where you do not live, most likley PHL for MESA from what I have heared from Mesa FOS. You will have 8 days off, that SUCKS, I want to kill my self with 12 days off. Interview at MESA just do not let your desire to fly a jet make you make a poor choice. Quality of life is really the most imporant thing there is, in my mind.

 

[stillaboo]

Av8ter,

just remember, all the advice you are getting is likely from current 121 pilots. We could leave our jobs and go work at a brokerage firm (most of us have college degrees and some experience, so it would take 2-3 years to get the good career track going), but we don't.

I'm a big believer in actions speak lounder than words. I left a corporate career track at an investment bank to fly. That's me. I'm happy with my choice.

I'd advise you to go to the interview, and try to speak to as many of the pilots there as you can. Or, if you live in PHX, CLT, PHL, DEN or DCA, just go to the airport and find where the Mesa planes depart from. Ask one of the pilots where the crew room is, b/c you were just invited to interview and you'd like to talk to some of the guys working on-line for Mesa right now. If you hang around the crew room area, you're bound to run into a couple of them. Just ask them some questions.

Just my advice. If you're happy with the broker position, then don't leave. Go where you're happiest.

 

[Herman Bloom]

If I could get every weekend off, every holiday off, and be home every night by 6:00pm as a pilot, I wouldn't be considering quiting right now.

Truth is, flying for a living is.....a living. In some ways, it takes the wonder out of it. In other ways, it is the easiest most stress-free job on earth. All in all though, I'd say being on the verge of unemployment every 5 years is stress enough for anybody.

My advice: Find something you like doing, something relatively fun and perhaps even useful to society, and try to make enough money to fly as a hobby. I think you'll find it to be much more rewarding in the end.

Fly safe

 

[ALG Trainer 1]

I know it sounds like a no brainer, but I've never flown a jet before and I would like to experience it at least once in my life.

Mortgaging, I can still do in my off time.

Anyways, still pondering....

Av8ter

This is exactly why this industry is going down the crapper!! People willing to work for next to nothing, just to fly a jet. Give me a fricken break.

 

[DDpaysoff]

This thread is the reason why we, as regional pilots, will never be able to move ahead.

It's not the thread, it is their contract.

 

[Dave Benjamin]

I know it sounds like a no brainer, but I've never flown a jet before and I would like to experience it at least once in my life.

In that case rent yourself a jet with an instructor and go fly it.

 

[Av8ter]

Thank you all for your words of advice and wisdom.

As some of you probably know, I spent all of 2002 applying, interviewing, studying, etc... trying to get this freaking job.

In Jan of this year, I became a mortgage broker. This job has enormous potential to make alot of $$ because of the low rates and all. My wife is very happy having me home every night, and since most of my clients are senior airline pilots, I know where this industry has gone.

Picture yourself having worked 20 to 30 years flying the airlines largest plane, and then at retirement, you realize you can't afford your mortgage payment and your house is not paid off yet. That is the reality of a few of my refi's.

This has been my kicker, I'm not going to go to the interview.

Post 9/11 this business has been going down the can. I wanted to impress my family and friends by wearing the fancy uniform, and fly the cool jet. But you know what, nobody cares. And I would be doing this for all the wrong reasons. It's too risky.

So I'll let someone else have the shot and have a good time flying.

See ya, and keep the blue side up.

Av8ter

 

[SmackYourPappy]

Congratulations AV8ter....

I know I am not just speaking for myself here, but we're d@mn proud of you! Good luck in your future endeavors!


Tailwinds-
Pappy

 

[stillaboo]

Good luck, and don't stop flying just b/c you're not building the resume.

See ya' in the sky, my man.

 

[climbhappy]

congrats, kiss the wife and start a family.......