thanks everyone....

[Airpiraterob]

finally gonna fly again !
starting class at the end of the month.
thanks to everyone who helped with encouragement and inforamtion and contacts. all of that made a difference.

regardless of if you had a contact or source for me or just some good information, thank you all for helping out.

and to help everyone else still looking, dont give up. sooner or later someone will call you. look high and low and you will get a feel of what job sources and search engines make a difference and actually have good listings. search everything you can. right about when you think it cant get any worse, it happens and one person calls. then you know your resumes are being found. if youre not working at all. make your 8 hour work day a full time job search. run out of placces to send a resume? then look harder. youll find sources you never thought would be there.

i searched:
-newspaper classifided online
-all online job boards (flipdog, monster, nationjobs, etc.)
-state by state offices listings
-talk with people on here. contacts here actually work!
-got airjobs subscription. and an interview 5 days after. (got turned down tho)
-anything you can find. be inventive in your search. use the online yellowpages or charter search networks. and cold call everything in any large metro area you can find.
-anything else you can possibly think of.
-go hang at the airport. (if theres one that actually has people flying into it)

from what ive found out with 4 months of searching is that there ARE JOBS! you just have to find them! many dont wnat the flood of resumes so they dont advertise nationally. therefore you have to go find them.

over 110+ resumes in 2 months sent. im getting not quite 2 calls a week. this is about the basement of the industry now. can only slowly get better.

 

[Swass]

Congrats, excellent to hear. Give us a little nugget; what equip. etc., where?

Good luck to you.

 

[Airpiraterob]

oh just a little ERJ somethin somethin...(cough cough chq cough)
everything happened as a result of talking with people on here...dont give up the dream yet people.

 

[Airpiraterob]

oh yeah...

special thanks to furloughed again. he really made it happen.
thanks man. i need to find you to get you lots of beer.

 

[bobbysamd]

Phone non-ringing

Congratulations on landing a job. , However . . .

over 110+ resumes in 2 months sent. im getting not quite 2 calls a week. this is about the basement of the industry now. can only slowly get better.

Consider yourself lucky. I recall sending far more apps and updates twelve-thirteen years ago, during that era when times were good and then went from bad to worse. I didn't even get one call per month. And in 1990 my quals were my ATP, type, all my CFI ratings, and about 3000 total and 500-600+ of multi. I was instructing and continued to build total and multi. During those years there were far fewer resources to review because internet was in its infancy.

Good luck with class.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

You're Welcome

No sweat Rob,

Us ex-frieght dogs gotta stick together.

Go out there and give em' heck.

Now, My advice?

#1.) Dont worry from day to day about furloughs, strikes, etc... BUT, always, always, always have a "plan - B".

#2.) Always keep your logbook and resume up to date.

#3.) Marry someone who loves her job and makes a good living so that she can support your flying "hobby".

#4.) If you fly with Capt Mike P., dont touch the radar!

#5.) If you fly with Capt Mike P.'s fiance' DON'T hit on her!!!

As for the beer, i'm sure you'll be able to buy me one someday. In the meantime though, you dont owe me anything. In this day and age we have to stick together -- its the one place left where the brotherhood of aviators MEANS something.

Take care and let me know where you end up getting based.

 

[Airpiraterob]

roger...

understood.

i have a plan B sorta...well...B minus i suppose. thats something to improve on in the meantime and during. i realize theres all kinds of day to day politics going on there now and i dont want to be involved, but at least i do need to pay attention....(so i can call that plan C plus and see whats availiable if i need to.) mabye i should get that CDL so i can drive the beer truck like i always wanted to if it dosent shake out..(the beer truck: its like the ice cream truck for the adults...)

thanks bobby, i almost forgot what it used to be like. i remember it as thats when i started and my instructors were severely high timed as well.

furloughed....PM me and lemme know who the fiance is so i dont make a mistake!....(so what DID happen to the guys that hit on her?)

whew...