Originally Posted by
ph-sbe
Whereas I got my CPL+MEP+IR and instead of flying students for the rest of my life I learned how to code. Now I fly and teach for fun and make way, way more than your TRE pilot in Silicon Valley.
Everyone on this forum that was able to learn how fly and operate large aircraft is more than intelligent enough to be able to learn how to code. If you get treated like crap at an airline, you go do something that pays better. It always helps to have a plan B.
If that pilot shortage really comes, I always have the option to join the airlines: if the price is right.
Some decades ago I was much in the same position and found coding paid multiples better than any available flying position.
Then I got downsized at 55 into a job market that was just as brutal to old coders as it was to low hour pilots.
So keep building that Plan A as you will likely be needing it not too long after you turn 35
