My IT job went to India without me when I was 34... At the time I'd had my PPL for a year or so and was part-timing the CPL... so with a fairly generous payout and lots of spare time, I ticked the CPL box fairly quickly after that.
Was "right place, right time" and got a GA gig which landed me another 600 hrs (paid) for ~900 TT... Got my MEIR sorted, but after unsuccessfully trying to get something more substantial with secondary operators, I bit the bullet and headed off to Indonesia to bash around the jungles in a caravan for Susi Air... picked up around 1000 hrs of Turbine/ATO ("multi-crew") time...
Earlier this year, started a Twin Turbine job with a Regional Airline with a shade under 2000 TT... at the age of 43.
You're only as old as the woman you feel
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[1] For the record, she's 36
