Piloting career regrets?

[captnmayday]

757 ...

I beg the differ ... I have been in this field for over 6 years ... 3+ lay offs .. never made more than 28K/yr ... still pushing rusty old Navajos ... I have flown in the Arctics, in the south and yelled at by crazy bosses in the middle of Bumble **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** Nowhere ...

When I started , I never had the funky Uniform, 6 figure salary and secure 9-5 job in mind ... I never cared where I lived or how hard I had to work. 3000 hours later and I am still enjoying it very much. I left a 90K engineering job to fly in the 90s and still no regrets ... If you want to fly ... there are jobs out there ...

If I loose interest, I just go do something else that I enjoy ...
would you fly a Navajo on extended time away from home for $28K/yr? If so ... PM me ...

Capt'n MayDay

 

[tinman]

Tinman, you will know some of the details of this jump. If you haven't guessed already, I'm THAT guy...or at least, I was.

Well Avbug, there are two local skydiving stories from the last 25 some odd years. I didn't put 2 and 2 together until I asked the owner, but I'm guessing that you are one of the them(the other person died so it wasn't you, unless all your posts have come from the other side!). All I can say is, d@mn that was a bad day.

 

[avbug]

They say that sometimes you're the windshield, and sometimes the bug. In terms of the tylenol factor, it wasn't a particularly good day. However, right at that moment in my life I was a little conflicted on purpose. I think that the event was sort of a kick in the pants that served to remind me, like some higher power saying, "Hey, you're not dead, yet!"

I looked back on that event as a motivator that suggested there was a reason I wasn't dead. I'm not sure what that reason was or is, but I am certain that once I fulfill whatever it is...I'll be dead.

So in the grand scheme of things, it wasn't such a bad day after all. The only easy day, was yesterday.