Need friendly advice please!

[CaptainJaguar]

Hey guys, well it's my first post on this web site sorry I posted in both forums but I wasnt sure which one to post in. I figured I give it a shot to ask for some help. Here's my story..... I am a current corporate/135 pilot flying a Falcon 900, I love flying the airplane and the money that I am making now is fairly decent. I have OK benefits for my self, wife an kids. I'm fairly young I guess you can say (32 yrs) and even though I like flying big equipment and making good money I have considered taking another path. I have a job offer with a start up airline back in my home town I will surely have to take a pay cut, and I guess you can say start over. But although the pay is about half of what I am making now I will have a set schedule, be home more often and have a good schedule where I can go back to school and get a degree is something else. Right now I have no set schedule and I have been on the road quite a bit, so family time is becoming an issue. I guess you can say I am more of a family type individual. So what do you guys think? What would you recommend??
Take the airline job.......
1- Take a salary pay cut
2- Have a set schedule
3- More family time
4- Chance to go back to school.

Or
Hang around....
1- Keep good pay
2- No set schedule
3- No QOL
4- Hope for the best
Thank in advance to all you guys for the insight.

 

[semperfido]

i would keep plugging away while looking for a better position. there are great jobs out there. they are just difficult to find. F900 is great experience. it is always easier to get a job when you have a job. if you are geographically constrained , then i might feel different.

 

[CaptainJaguar]

i would keep plugging away while looking for a better position. there are great jobs out there. they are just difficult to find. F900 is great experience. it is always easier to get a job when you have a job. if you are geographically constrained , then i might feel different.

I've thought about that, but to be honest with ya neither my wife and I want to move again. We've moved around enough as it is.

 

[sleepy]

Two things I am never going to do again in this business; take a pay cut on the promise that I might get ahead in the future and leave corporate aviation for an airline (muchless a start-up airline).

 

[skiav8tor]

CJ,

I just made a similar decision...leave a great 91/135 G3 gig, and go to an airline (B6)...albeit, not a startup. It was a very tough decision, but it came down to schedule. As you know, in corporate flying...which I think is great...you are sitting down to dinner, the phone rings, and now you are on your way to EGGW for a week. Very exciting, but not condusive to family life. I made the decision to try the airline, as those opportunities don't arise very often, and give it a couple of years. If it appears that is not the type of flying I enjoy, then I can always go back to corporate. That does not necessarily work the other way...!? It comes down to having a conversation with your spouse and children...and how valuable is the time vs. money.

Ski

P.S. I made this decision about schedule...and I don't have a family.

 

[semperfido]

CJ,

...you are sitting down to dinner, the phone rings, and now you are on your way to EGGW for a week. .

i have been a p91 pilot for many years and this has never happened to me. not saying it couldn't, but it would be a rare occurrence.

 

[CaptainJaguar]

i have been a p91 pilot for many years and this has never happened to me. not saying it couldn't, but it would be a rare occurrence.

Well it has happened fairly often lately...

 

[semperfido]

well, you need a better p91 deal. the 135 aspect would bother me.

 

[skiav8tor]

i have been a p91 pilot for many years and this has never happened to me. not saying it couldn't, but it would be a rare occurrence. [/quote

Probably happens more with 135 trips, but it has happened to me with 91 as well...maybe just not as far away as EGWW...

 

[CaptainJaguar]

CJ,

I just made a similar decision...leave a great 91/135 G3 gig, and go to an airline (B6)...albeit, not a startup. It was a very tough decision, but it came down to schedule. As you know, in corporate flying...which I think is great...you are sitting down to dinner, the phone rings, and now you are on your way to EGGW for a week. Very exciting, but not condusive to family life. I made the decision to try the airline, as those opportunities don't arise very often, and give it a couple of years. If it appears that is not the type of flying I enjoy, then I can always go back to corporate. That does not necessarily work the other way...!? It comes down to having a conversation with your spouse and children...and how valuable is the time vs. money.

Ski

P.S. I made this decision about schedule...and I don't have a family.

I agree, I mean I enjoy flying to different places, but it's just the fact of not having that set schedule that burns my skin...they had promised us days off but now since we've been doing lots of charter I think the owner is getting greedy and it's becoming one of those "yesterday was your day off b/c eventhough you were on call all day you didint fly" type job..... Like I said eventhough money is nice to have always my wife is willing to go back to work part time if needed, ofcourse that's if I take the other job. Not seeing my wife and kids for days is starting to become a pain in the ASSSS!!