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I just want to know why I wasnt given a passion for law instead of aviation, oh well gotta do what ya gotta do lol.
 
Who wants to be a pilot?

i would like to ask the audience
 
Don't kid yourself, lawyers are just as poor as pilots. For every well off lawyer, there are 50 barely putting food on the table.
 
Still a great career

Flying is still a great career. Where else can a guy without a college degree have a good chance of making $100K yr with 12-16 days off per month by his early 30's. If you really like to fly and are not in it for respect, prestige, $100K to start out, it is a great place to do something you love and be paid for it. Many people only dream about a job like that. There are too many negative vibes on this board. This might tend to discourage a person who thinking about flying as a career. Do not be discouraged, flying is still a great career. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to fly.
 
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pilotyip said:
Flying is still a great career. Where else can a guy without a college degree have a good chance of making $100K yr with 12-16 days off per month by his early 30's. If you really like to fly and are not in it for respect, prestige, $100K to start out, it is a great place to do something you love and be paid for it. Many people only dream about a job like that. There are too many negative vibes on this board. This might tend to discourage a person who thinking about flying as a career. Do not be discouraged, flying is still a great career. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to fly.
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.ditto...all very true..beats working for a living :)
 
pilotyip said:
Flying is still a great career. Where else can a guy without a college degree have a good chance of making $100K yr with 12-16 days off per month by his early 30's. If you really like to fly and are not in it for respect, prestige, $100K to start out, it is a great place to do something you love and be paid for it. Many people only dream about a job like that. There are too many negative vibes on this board. This might tend to discourage a person who thinking about flying as a career. Do not be discouraged, flying is still a great career. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to fly.
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Just curious. Where is the "guy without a college degreee in his early 30's" who is making $100K/yr with 16 days off working?
 
The only lawyers that I know that don't make much aren't very good or are ambulance chasers. The rest have all done very well. Being a good lawyer is usually just dependent on grades to start off. It's the ones with low B's or less that aren't very well paid. However being a pilot means you have to meet certain criteria. Once it is met what else is there? You meet PTS on something you get your rating and on paper you're as qualified as the next, hours pending.
 
pilotyip said:
Flying is still a great career. Where else can a guy without a college degree have a good chance of making $100K yr with 12-16 days off per month by his early 30's. If you really like to fly and are not in it for respect, prestige, $100K to start out, it is a great place to do something you love and be paid for it. Many people only dream about a job like that. There are too many negative vibes on this board. This might tend to discourage a person who thinking about flying as a career. Do not be discouraged, flying is still a great career. I would recommend it to anyone who likes to fly.
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I don't mean to be an ass. I really don't. But woooo----owwwww! Where are these guys?!!! I'm a college graduate ten years out, mid-thirties, trying to keep binky from killing me every day in a trainer. I'm smack-dab in the middle of your demographic and I gotta tell ya, I don't know a single person that makes that kinda cash.

I know those GV jobs are around here and there, but honestly, let's face facts and admit that most of us (> 90%) don't make anywhere near that. A significant chunk of us are probably unemployed. I think a good chance is awfully optimistic.
 
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When I left the factory, I was packing ass wipe in a case by hand 21 days a month for for 38K a year. Now I fly an airplane 12 days a month for 41K a year plus perdiem. I think I'm going to stick with the middle ground...SJS means I gotta take a lotta crap and get paid nothing to start and I'm too old to go back to bending over a corrugated box 3,300 times on the night shift...not to mention, I'd be lucky to find a job working at the meat plant deboning the chickens with a bunch of crazy people.
 
Okay, so being that it's just after 1am, and I'm really tired, I TOTALLY though the title read 'Who wants to DO a pilot?' *laugh* I thought, considering the ratio of males to females on this board that it was strange that Toilet Duck was looking for a hookup.

Duh me....
 
Catbert said:
I don't mean to be an ass. I really don't. But woooo----owwwww! Where are these guys?!!! I'm a college graduate ten years out, mid-thirties, trying to keep binky from killing me every day in a trainer. I'm smack-dab in the middle of your demographic and I gotta tell ya, I don't know a single person that makes that kinda cash.

I know those GV jobs are around here and there, but honestly, let's face facts and admit that most of us (> 90%) don't make anywhere near that. A significant chunk of us are probably unemployed. I think a good chance is awfully optimistic.
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I don't mean to be an ass either but when exactly did you start flying? I think what he was talking about is if you start from the get-go like some do. Mid 30's with less than 1k you're right won't earn you that. However some people by that age may have the requirements. Family friend of mine was either the youngest pilot hired by ups or the youngest to fly their 747. Anyway at 35 yrs old he was capt 747 and making more than what he posted. there is hope. Must have faith. Faith is what makes the world turn. If you don't have it you might just not make it.
 
Speaking of jobs you love...I've been on reserve for the last 2 weeks and haven't been called once.......can't complain about that :-D
 
Ailerongirl said:
Okay, so being that it's just after 1am, and I'm really tired, I TOTALLY though the title read 'Who wants to DO a pilot?' *laugh* I thought, considering the ratio of males to females on this board that it was strange that Toilet Duck was looking for a hookup.

Duh me....
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Lol yea it's not "who wants to DO a pilot". I'm not shooting that down or anything that just wasn't it.
 
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I don't mean to be an ass either but when exactly did you start flying? I think what he was talking about is if you start from the get-go like some do. Mid 30's with less than 1k you're right won't earn you that. However some people by that age may have the requirements. Family friend of mine was either the youngest pilot hired by ups or the youngest to fly their 747. Anyway at 35 yrs old he was capt 747 and making more than what he posted. there is hope. Must have faith. Faith is what makes the world turn. If you don't have it you might just not make it.
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Hope....is a good thing.

What movie was that from?
 
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Hope....is a good thing.

What movie was that from?
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I don't know about your "hope is a good thing" but mine wasn't from any movie. Faith is the one most dominant force in the history of the world. Not money. More decisions have been made as well as countries ran by their ruler's faiths and it has been the biggest determination in the worlds future. Faith in something is good. Blind or not. I have faith in my self and that is what keeps me going and trying my best. If you dont have it in yourself then you won't be doing your absolute best and will be overtaken by someone who is doing theirs. By having faith you know you are doing the right thing. Sooner or later it will pay off.
 
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I don't know about your "hope is a good thing" but mine wasn't from any movie. Faith is the one most dominant force in the history of the world. Not money. More decisions have been made as well as countries ran by their ruler's faiths and it has been the biggest determination in the worlds future. Faith in something is good. Blind or not. I have faith in my self and that is what keeps me going and trying my best. If you dont have it in yourself then you won't be doing your absolute best and will be overtaken by someone who is doing theirs. By having faith you know you are doing the right thing. Sooner or later it will pay off.
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Right...gotch ya.
 
ToiletDuck said:
Faith in something is good. Blind or not. I have faith in my self and that is what keeps me going and trying my best. If you dont have it in yourself then you won't be doing your absolute best and will be overtaken by someone who is doing theirs. By having faith you know you are doing the right thing. Sooner or later it will pay off.
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Thanks for that, Deepak Chopra. :rolleyes: Wise words on how to make it in this industry from someone who hasn't (yet.)
 
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Thanks for that, Deepak Chopra. :rolleyes: Wise words on how to make it in this industry from someone who hasn't (yet.)
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At what point did anyone become successful without faith? If you don't have it then might as well move on. What motivates you to try and take such a positive thing and make it negative? "Wise words on how to make it in this industry" he says... It's mentioned some 12,295 times in the Bible alone and it's the basis of every religion in the world. Can't make it anywhere without it. I'm not even what you would consider super religious but I still understand the magnitude of it.

I don't think the Bible was targeting flying. I've read your post at least a dozen times and of all things I've ever come across I think it was the most stupid I've ever had the unfortunate pleasure of reading. Well that and your bragging of how you managed to so wittingly "invent" the term SJS (shiny jet syndrom). Without believing in yourself and being motivated about what you do what hope do you have in life or anything else for that matter? What a dang naysayer.

Would you like me to get someone who has made it to say the same thing to be more credible?
 
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FN FAL said:
When I left the factory, I was packing ass wipe in a case by hand
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this answers some questions... ;)

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I'm too old to go back to bending over a corrugated box
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ahh but you're never too old to start bending over....especially in this industry. :)

gotta admit tho. this is much better than working for a living. we do have our problems to deal with and fires to put out, but over all its a good deal. not many people get to do what they love for a living. not many people have the schedule flexibility that we have. not many people get to see the sunsets like we do from their cubicle. not many people get to see an aurora borealis from 30k feet.

in my experience i have found that most (not all) of the people who dont appreciate their jobs havent really had a real job. there will naturally be exceptions.

the following quote doesnt apply as much these days as it did back in the golden age of flying, but its still a good quote. 5 points to anyone who can identify the source:

"where else do they give you a multi million dollar airplane, fill it full of booze and women and send you off some place far away?"




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dash8driver said:
this answers some questions... ;)
Yea, I suppose having worked for a living is detrimental :)

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ahh but you're never too old to start bending over....especially in this industry. :)
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I hear you, but when you get to a certain age, nobody want's any that. They just wan't the young succulent ones that are cheaper by the dozen.
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