The Worst Flying Job?

[FearlessFreep]

Worst Flying Job? Being Furloughed From Your Flying Job..

Best Flying Job? Not Being Furloughed From Your Flying Job.

Just filed for my un-employment benefits. Found out that in comparison to the starting pay at some regionals I would make $29.75 more than un-employment per MONTH. When you throw in the expenses that you would have to bear while working you would be better to stay home and collect a check. Still right now I am ready to go back to work, even at that pay rate.

Good Luck To Us All!

 

[Ty Webb]

I think the worst job would be to be a Crack Whore.

Oh, wait, no, the worst job would have to be . . . .
Assistant Crack Whore!

Oh, we were talking about flying jobs?

Probably any pilot job that requires you to put in office time when you're not flying. I knew a pilot that used to have to got to his bosses' house once a week and do pool service!

I once met a kid whose first interview included the following exchange:

Interviewer: The job position includes arranging catering. Do you think you can handle this?

Pilot: You mean call the caterer or the FBO an arrange catering? Sure.

Interviewer: No, no, you will go to the store, buy the crackers, fruit and cheese, slice the fruit and cheese, then arrange the catering tastefully in a basket or on a tray.

Now, that's what I call a crappy job!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Worst Flying Job? Being Furloughed From Your Flying Job. Best Flying Job? Not Being Furloughed From Your Flying Job.

This is why I was apprehensive about starting a thread like this...I knew it could be a real downer.

(At the risk of sounding calloused, "Being Furloughed" isn't really a job though, is it?)

Okay, seriously: short of a family medical crisis, I can't think of a situation worse than being a Part-121 airline pilot on furlough in this place in history. There but for the grace of Skip Barnett go I... I wish we could hire every one of you guys, I really do.

Towing banners is a fun job if you were washing airplanes in exchange for stick time the previous year. It's probably not a fun job if you were a 737 F/O the previous year...

 

[FutureRJPilot]

Just wanted to confirm on the corpses being cargo. My grandfather owned 3 funeral homes for years and I worked for him when I was 16 picking up bodies and what not, well one time he had me take a woman, obviously dead, to the airport because she was being buried back in her hometown on the east coast somewhere. I ended up taking her to the Delta Airlines Cargo hangar at PDX so there is your answer.

 

[ibaflyer]

OK..... this whole dead body thing is not that bad. I am a funeral director and embalmer and a pilot.

Yes, I do fly bodies in my airplane (Piper Lance).

Yes, it IS better than flying live pax. (Sometimes)

No, they do not sit up or make noises due to the change in alt. (Myth)

Yes, it is considered part 91 for me since part of my job is to transport dead human bodies.

And finally.....Yes, it would be considered part 135 if I was not a licensed funeral director. (I used to own a part 135 charter company)