jamestkirk
28th Jun 2006, 19:15
I stepped away from pprune over the past few months due to the fact that there was some doom, more doom and a pinch of doom on it about getting a job.
I am just going to go through a few low points of my year and hopefully it will not seem as bad as yours and will give anyone who needs that first job as much as me a little pick me up.
1. Got F/ATPL in August 2004. - Thought i was going to get a job doing something (abnything!). How wrong could i be. On this website i even offered to dance round a pole in speedo's for any prospective employer, hoping that one would be reading the thread and wish for a re-play of their public school days.
GETTING DEEPER INTO DEBT
2. Spent about nine months looking for normal work and found a job as a general manager at phone4U. Lasted eight weeks. I told area manager to get someone else as I and everyone else who works for him find him "deepy unpopular" (not a great thing to say to a man but he deserved it)
GETTING DEEPER INTO DEBT
3. Went for selection for MI5. Did'nt get in. Manily because i answered questions with a 'yesh' (sean connery voice). Instead of yes. Those lot haven o sense of humour.
GETTING DEEPER INTO DEBT
4. Got FI rating. Brilliant. Learnt lots of stuff. Improved my flying skills. Hope the now 1100 hours would help (um!). People trying to kill me in the circuit for £17 ph. It's just so Rock n' Roll.
Now the debt could not be climbed by the most experienced Everest conquerer. Actually, you'd need the hubble telescope to see the summit
5. I have been told that because i am modular and over 30 years of age, I am incapable of learning or competantly flying a aeroplane. SEMI JOKE. But actually what I cannot do anymore is competantly play swing ball. That ball on a string has become my nemesis.
THEY ARE NOW BUILDING A SPACE STATION TO REACH THE DEBT.
Enough of all of that.
It can be a difficult acceptance that maybe, no matter how hard we try, that it may not happen for any one of us. I do not feel that way myself just yet. No matter how many time people tell you "it's going to happen", they cannot gaurentee it (obviously).
I generally have a had a great year because I am flying, but a sh@t year because I am not where i need to be.
It's an easy thing to say, but there is always a way. Even though I have not found it yet. But I have got myself out of some generally sticky situations. Albeit for another one.
Oh, and i got an e-mail from cityjet, saying that Cityjet are recruiting in August. If annyone sent me PM's about the assessment i sat last year, sorry I cannot remember the questions.
If anyone is in a better situation that me and feels better for it after reading the thread, great!.
If you want to pull me up on spelling, grammar or artistic licence then please forward to that A320rider bloke who makes me feel like a lottery winner.
I am just going to go through a few low points of my year and hopefully it will not seem as bad as yours and will give anyone who needs that first job as much as me a little pick me up.
1. Got F/ATPL in August 2004. - Thought i was going to get a job doing something (abnything!). How wrong could i be. On this website i even offered to dance round a pole in speedo's for any prospective employer, hoping that one would be reading the thread and wish for a re-play of their public school days.
GETTING DEEPER INTO DEBT
2. Spent about nine months looking for normal work and found a job as a general manager at phone4U. Lasted eight weeks. I told area manager to get someone else as I and everyone else who works for him find him "deepy unpopular" (not a great thing to say to a man but he deserved it)
GETTING DEEPER INTO DEBT
3. Went for selection for MI5. Did'nt get in. Manily because i answered questions with a 'yesh' (sean connery voice). Instead of yes. Those lot haven o sense of humour.
GETTING DEEPER INTO DEBT
4. Got FI rating. Brilliant. Learnt lots of stuff. Improved my flying skills. Hope the now 1100 hours would help (um!). People trying to kill me in the circuit for £17 ph. It's just so Rock n' Roll.
Now the debt could not be climbed by the most experienced Everest conquerer. Actually, you'd need the hubble telescope to see the summit
5. I have been told that because i am modular and over 30 years of age, I am incapable of learning or competantly flying a aeroplane. SEMI JOKE. But actually what I cannot do anymore is competantly play swing ball. That ball on a string has become my nemesis.
THEY ARE NOW BUILDING A SPACE STATION TO REACH THE DEBT.
Enough of all of that.
It can be a difficult acceptance that maybe, no matter how hard we try, that it may not happen for any one of us. I do not feel that way myself just yet. No matter how many time people tell you "it's going to happen", they cannot gaurentee it (obviously).
I generally have a had a great year because I am flying, but a sh@t year because I am not where i need to be.
It's an easy thing to say, but there is always a way. Even though I have not found it yet. But I have got myself out of some generally sticky situations. Albeit for another one.
Oh, and i got an e-mail from cityjet, saying that Cityjet are recruiting in August. If annyone sent me PM's about the assessment i sat last year, sorry I cannot remember the questions.
If anyone is in a better situation that me and feels better for it after reading the thread, great!.
If you want to pull me up on spelling, grammar or artistic licence then please forward to that A320rider bloke who makes me feel like a lottery winner.