Is it worth it?
04-07-2007, 06:23 AM
#41
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Position: Corporate Pilot
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Exercise
(I'm definitely being bias here) Not for me. With the exception of sitting in the airplane for hours, when I get off duty I am going for a jog, swim,, jump rope, shadow boxing and the gym if the hotel has one. I'm the type that has to keep moving or I'll feel like crap the next day. Even after a 16 hour duty day, I'll be doing something. Doing basic cardiovascular calisthenics does not take money. I can't remember the last time I paid someone to go for a swim, a run or do some pushups. Anyway, like I said, just some thoughts on how to pass the time.
I didn't drink as a pilot but, it seems to me that alcohol and flying would be a very attractive mix. It is difficult to sleep when off your time zone. Every trip you are with strangers. Three hard drinks and everyone is best friends. A lot of booze would help with all those things. I can see how guys could get into trouble drinking on the road. I would never do it but if I had it would have made life as an airline pilot much more bearable.
SkyHigh
04-07-2007, 07:58 AM
#42
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Position: RC-3 Seabee. Skipper of the A21 cutter.
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Many hotels have an alright gym and pool. I use to partake of those things. I rarely went out with co-workers since most of them were armed to get into trouble.
I didn't drink as a pilot but, it seems to me that alcohol and flying would be a very attractive mix. It is difficult to sleep when off your time zone. Every trip you are with strangers. Three hard drinks and everyone is best friends. A lot of booze would help with all those things. I can see how guys could get into trouble drinking on the road. I would never do it but if I had it would have made life as an airline pilot much more bearable.
SkyHigh
I didn't drink as a pilot but, it seems to me that alcohol and flying would be a very attractive mix. It is difficult to sleep when off your time zone. Every trip you are with strangers. Three hard drinks and everyone is best friends. A lot of booze would help with all those things. I can see how guys could get into trouble drinking on the road. I would never do it but if I had it would have made life as an airline pilot much more bearable.
SkyHigh
04-07-2007, 09:33 AM
#43
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Joined APC: May 2005
Position: Corporate Pilot
Posts: 7,119
Great
LOL! Sky, that's the funniest thing I have seen on this forum. I'm not being sarcastic either! That's the most hilarious post I have seen so far. If I ever have a trip to seattle (someday) I'll buy you a drink! I've never resorting to dealing with my problems by drinking but who knows, maybe you are right....Flying might drive me to the edge. LOL! LOL!
SkyHigh
04-07-2007, 04:45 PM
#44
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04-08-2007, 07:48 AM
#46
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Joined APC: Nov 2005
Position: UPS 757/767 Capt ONT
Posts: 4,357
"I keep waiting every day though"
It's never gonna happen. Even if you had three silver bullets, you have no quality recent time to make yourself competitive. That's the part you messed up on when you quit. Yet, you tell everyone here they SHOULD just quit. They only way you'll get there is to start with a lowly job and work your way back up. To do so, though, goes against everything you preach here.
But if you do get to the interview, be sure to tell them the F/O's job in a modern glass cockpit is useless, unnecessary, and deserves no respect. That should go over well.
It's never gonna happen. Even if you had three silver bullets, you have no quality recent time to make yourself competitive. That's the part you messed up on when you quit. Yet, you tell everyone here they SHOULD just quit. They only way you'll get there is to start with a lowly job and work your way back up. To do so, though, goes against everything you preach here.
But if you do get to the interview, be sure to tell them the F/O's job in a modern glass cockpit is useless, unnecessary, and deserves no respect. That should go over well.
04-09-2007, 05:48 AM
#47
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Position: Corporate Pilot
Posts: 7,119
Joking
"I keep waiting every day though"
It's never gonna happen. Even if you had three silver bullets, you have no quality recent time to make yourself competitive. That's the part you messed up on when you quit. Yet, you tell everyone here they SHOULD just quit. They only way you'll get there is to start with a lowly job and work your way back up. To do so, though, goes against everything you preach here.
But if you do get to the interview, be sure to tell them the F/O's job in a modern glass cockpit is useless, unnecessary, and deserves no respect. That should go over well.
It's never gonna happen. Even if you had three silver bullets, you have no quality recent time to make yourself competitive. That's the part you messed up on when you quit. Yet, you tell everyone here they SHOULD just quit. They only way you'll get there is to start with a lowly job and work your way back up. To do so, though, goes against everything you preach here.
But if you do get to the interview, be sure to tell them the F/O's job in a modern glass cockpit is useless, unnecessary, and deserves no respect. That should go over well.
My option is to take another miserable FO job at a regional or LLC. Not only would I not be able support a family on the high school kid paycheck and would have to move to an urban ghetto, but I would have to waste another few years waiting to upgrade and as we all know there are no guarantees.
At this point I might as well sit at home and continue to send out the occasional resume and see what happens.
SkyHigh
04-09-2007, 01:06 PM
#48
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I don't see how you could say so many negative things about the career, Skyhigh, and still want to go back. lol That says alot about your (and everyone else's) addiction. There's definitely a lot of negatives but there's gotta be something great about this job that we just can't get enough of. Good luck and I hope you get the job (and sometime soon, that great feeling after a greaser
04-09-2007, 01:18 PM
#49
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My option is to take another miserable FO job at a regional or LLC. Not only would I not be able support a family on the high school kid paycheck and would have to move to an urban ghetto, but I would have to waste another few years waiting to upgrade and as we all know there are no guarantees.
04-09-2007, 02:02 PM
#50
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Position: Corporate Pilot
Posts: 7,119
Sure
Geez, from the way you talk and how unbelievably successful life outside of aviation has been since leaving, you would think that you have enough money saved up to support the family for a year or two on the lower income. Especially being in real estate, with the ups and downs of that market one would think that you have assets set aside for the market crash.
She would rather have me bagging groceries at Safeway then to do that. (I probably would too) The bottom line is that unless there was a solid opportunity with a major or LCC airline that offers a SEA base at my age there are few benefits to simply getting back in line at a regional or LCC away from home again. We earn a good living and have a good life. The trade off is that my airline dreams go unfulfilled.
It's not whining just life. We can't have it all.
SkyHigh
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