What does your wife/girlfriend do?

[PA-44Typed]

She teaches 5th grade! I have been able to work at her school as a substitute teacher when not flying.

 

[Snakum]

What does my wife/girlfriend do?

She does as she's told.



Minh "My Way Or The Highway" Thong

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

She works in operations in the trust department of a fast growing bank. I hear stories of many growing problems at the fast growing bank. Kind of a thankless job. I'd stay as far away from that atmosphere as possible. She wants to move into the health field if that tells you anything.


Mr. I.

 

[EternalOptimist]

I'm the wife of a pilot and I've held lots of different jobs. Moving around the country forces you to explore many options - especially when you are married to a regional pilot who can't afford to support himself let alone a family. My husband is now a major airline pilot and hopefully in a couple of years we'll be able to start thinking about my career as a homemaker but for now, I'm working as a legal assistant. I started out in medical research as a project coordinator for a clinical trial. I was in the medical field for 4 years when I got married and we moved across the country for my husband's job. I stayed in the medical field for the 9 months we were out there as the secretary to the director of the ECU at a hospital. When we moved to the Southwest, I took the only job I could find - accounts payable - and I actually really liked it so when we moved again, I looked for work as an accounts payable clerk but ended up falling into a legal assistant job that I loved. Now that we're back in Seattle (home) and my husband is on with his dream airline, I have a little more freedom to do what I want with my career and I've chosen to stay in the legal field until I don't need to work any longer and then I'll go into some sort of volunteer position in addition to cooking and cleaning at home and travelling with my husband whenever possible. Kids may or may not be in our future. No real plans there yet. Hope this gives you some ideas.

 

[sleepy]

My wife is a Federal Prosecutor. My girlfried is a topless dancer.

 

[CounterGirl]

Thanks everyone for all the replies, off color or not. I got some good ideas. It sounds like there's a lot of great aviation families out there making a go of it.

Hmm, how come the guys with less than 1000 hours seem to be the ones who trash talk their girlfriends/wives? "she does as she's told....which girlfriend".....blah, blah, blah. Sounds like 'big car' syndrome to me.

CG

 

[aa30]

First off, "Turbo57", many congrats on your marriage...25 years is awesome. I am coming up on 3 good years myself.

Second, my beautiful wife is an MD.

 

[B190Captain]

My wife is at home with my 3 year and 5 month old sons.

<----------she also models with big guns!

 

[achick]

I am a guidance counselor in a high school and supported my (ex boyfriend) pilot through TWO first year pay jobs. I used my MS in counseling more with him and his friends than I do with my students.

If you like your significant other pilot, an educator or nurse has the fexibility to travel. If not, find a job with only two weeks vacation or lots of buisness travel.

Typhoon1244 Those are awesome kids!!!

 

[saabcaptain]

My wife is a OR nurse with a 4 day a week / 10 hour schedule which is great since my trips average 4 on, 3 off or 3 on, 4 off all month long. Not counting the great schedule and job I am still the luckiest guy in the world for her having me!

 

[Chunk]

Kindegarten teacher and round-the-clock baby incubator. We have our first two in the oven as we speak!

 

[Dash8]

talkin' bout, my girl

she's an ultra-sound tech, it's a good job, she makes decent money, and she should be able to find a job doing that pretty much anywhere i'd need to go.

some aspects of her job i find somewhat distasteful though...

 

[pilotyip]

medical software

Married a great gal 37 years ago, who supported me, raised the family, put up with extended Navy deployments, put up with the unemployment, and never threatened to bail out. She can pack up a household in one day to move to the next job, and call me a jerk for a poor career choice while she is packing the boxes. She is my best friend. She has been the breadwinner many times while "between jobs" She teaches how to use medical office software for Webb MD

 

[P3tarbaby]

if she has to work, which she does right now, I couldn't ask for much better:

bartender at Outback = free steaks

aerobics instructor = free gym membership

 

[CounterGirl]

If you like your significant other pilot, an educator or nurse has the fexibility to travel. [/B]

OK, so here's the update! I want to be able to travel with my boyfriend (yep--a pilot), yet have a career that works with having kids. So all day yesterday we ran around and got things rolling with the help of the Dept. of Education in Arizona. By the end of today, I should be registered for a certification program for elementary teaching. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but needed to hear from others that it was a good choice. Thanks everyone!

And if all else fails, I'll look into being a dispatcher or getting on with an airline as a CSR. Can't have too many travel bennies.

By the way, it's so wonderful to hear the many compliments that some of you guys gave your significant others. Support on both sides is a must for any relationship, but it's been my experience that this is even more important when the aviation industry is involved.

CG

 

[prodigal]

Mine mostly complains about how little $ I make. When she's not doing that she's a consultant. I still haven't figured out what a consultant really does.

 

[LearLove]

My wife is my left hand and my girlfriend the right or was it wife right hand and girlfriend left?

 

[skyking1976]

My better half used to work for Delta, Air Wis, and Great Lakes as a CSR. She recently got smart and went to work as a course materials coordinator for New Horizons computer learning center. She makes more than she did after 5 years with Delta and the bennies are better. (No free airline trips though. ) Now if I could only get smart....

 

[Kaman]

Hello,
My wife is an R.N. Someone pointed out thats it's the ideal job for a pilot's spouse. I would have to agree with that.

regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[Dieterly]

My wife is a "stay at home mom", doing what parents suppose to do, like raising their OWN children!!!

 

[PA28/C172 Flyer]

Orininally posted by 350Driver.

Which girlfriend.? One of them works in a jewlery store, another is a DAL flight attendant (gotta be DAL since I am a former Delta), one is still in college (don't see her too much though), another is a legal secretary, another is doing nothing with herself since her dad has mega bucks (dad buys her horses to play with and "supposebly" train and sell), another works at Kaufman's part time, another is a marketing director for a charter department.

Have you ever seen the TV Movie Frequent Flyer? You must look like Jack Wagner.

 

[Patriot328]

My recent ex (but g/f for several years, so I guess it'll count) is a 767 FO at AMR. Trying to arrange schedules when we both are junior in our seat was a pain the arse, but it worked out most of the time. For some reason, she always had more days off than I..

She's got a great job, except it's not going to last much longer. Great girl, though...



(with her, that'll make it official... EVERY person that I know that went to a major that isn't SWA or FedEx is on the street. Unbelievable... )


patriot

 

[GumbyDarnit]

My girlfriend is a Chiropractor which is quite fortuitous after 14 years of flying the Viper, the last 3 1/2 of which included a significant amount of time looking over my shoulder while pulling 6-9 g’s and telling some punk to “Pull Hard Now” after his turn circle entry. My neck is still f****d up, but it feels better than it has for years! Every retired fighter pilot should have one of his girlfriends be a Chiropractor.

Gumby

 

[avbug]

We will have been married 25 years on May 27th. We have had our ups and downs but overall it has been a good ride. Marriage is great with the right person.

Congratulations, Turbo. And my condolences to your wife.

 

[TXCAP4228]

Unmarried

I didn't know there were women in the world that would support my flying addiction.

 

[CounterGirl]

Yes, there good women out there that don't mind being the mistress in the marriage between man and airplane.....! No really, I had to learn to embrace it, and that's how I ended up in aviation myself.

....Support for your significant other should be number 1, no matter what they do. Besides, a man in a pilot uniform is sexy--how could a girl not love it?


Hey FlyChicaga, thanks for the best wishes!

 

[Frac Daddy]

My wife is a part-time dental hygientist and full time mommy.