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excrab · 18th March 2009, 11:13

Happyjack,

"What kind of "professional" invests £100k on their future and then leaves their wife, children and home to work for peanuts in an expensive rented (probably shared) flat in a country they would never choose to even visit?"

I'm seriously considering this and if offered the opportunity will probably take it up. I didn't invest £100k on my future - I washed aeroplanes and cut the grass at a flying club to help pay for flying lessons, and after 22 years of full time employment as a pilot (with a suitable number of flying hours to match) and having flown in the left hand seat of piston, turboprop and jet aircraft of varying sorts I find myself unemployed and receiving £60 per week in job seekers allowance, hence I have time to sit and post this.

I would be interested to know how you decide that flying a J41 in Romania will make me somehow less professional than flying a 737 in Spain? I would also be very pleased to know which pub it is that you can earn 2800 Euros per month in, most of the pubs where I live are paying minimum wage to bar staff at the moment, and none of the ones I have tried have any vacancies at the moment anyway...

18th March 2009, 11:13	#28 (permalink)
excrab Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: The middle Posts: 232	Happyjack, "What kind of "professional" invests £100k on their future and then leaves their wife, children and home to work for peanuts in an expensive rented (probably shared) flat in a country they would never choose to even visit?" I'm seriously considering this and if offered the opportunity will probably take it up. I didn't invest £100k on my future - I washed aeroplanes and cut the grass at a flying club to help pay for flying lessons, and after 22 years of full time employment as a pilot (with a suitable number of flying hours to match) and having flown in the left hand seat of piston, turboprop and jet aircraft of varying sorts I find myself unemployed and receiving £60 per week in job seekers allowance, hence I have time to sit and post this. I would be interested to know how you decide that flying a J41 in Romania will make me somehow less professional than flying a 737 in Spain? I would also be very pleased to know which pub it is that you can earn 2800 Euros per month in, most of the pubs where I live are paying minimum wage to bar staff at the moment, and none of the ones I have tried have any vacancies at the moment anyway...