Career Change at 29
04-04-2016, 06:36 AM
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A few cents here. I am a prior 121 pilot - 2 years at a regional, 2 years at a 121 international charter airline. I left, went to law school, became an attorney, and now going back to 121 in hopefully a month. There are many unhappy pilots on here because they don't know what real work is. Leave flying and go sit an in office 10 hours a day getting it from all ends and a few legs a day mashing buttons 3-4 days a week ain't bad even if you don't like flying.
I miss flying and in comparison to my current job, I didn't work a day of my 4 years as an airline pilot.
I miss flying and in comparison to my current job, I didn't work a day of my 4 years as an airline pilot.
There is truth here, pilots who have never done anything else often don't realize that a real white-collar job is more than just showing, screwing around with Excel while intermittently surfing the web, and then going home. Constant politics are required to keep your head above the layoff level, and all the hard work is for naught if the big client takes his account elsewhere.
The real advantages to a real job are career portability (not tied to seniority system) and holidays off. Now that everyone is tethered to technology white collar people don't really have nights and weekends off, they just work from other locations.
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