Originally Posted by
bulldog89
Don't assume anyone has the same priorities in life.
Take a job anywhere... No thanks
Accept low salary... Depending on how much is the salary difference between my actual salary and the one proposed, taking into account expenses for living abroad and maybe commuting. Anyway any salary reduction more than 700€/months --> thanks but no thanks
About the "paved career", that's how it appears to my eyes: left home to fly Caravans, sounds a lot of fun flying, good if you're young and planning to stay for a few years. Come back and worked night shift...doing that on rotation, no way I'm working nights only. Got a position I'd probably not left. Moved to Middle East on long range, no useful pension, high living costs, again away from home.
Would I do that? No way, I'd just keep my current job.
As you see it's just a matter of personal priorities, there are no "general rules".
Why would anyone get into flying commercially if they are not prepared to move away from their home town? That just sounds like a ridiculous argument when getting into a career in aviation!
A pay cut to get into the right job is a short term pain to a long term issue. I have taken a 50% paycut more than 8 years into my flying career, I am now better off than I would have been if I had stayed with my previous company...
Taking a job with unfavorable working rotations - it's a stepping stone to a job with better lifestyle conditions.
I know of a few pilots who joined Ryanair with the standard fATPL and minimum flight hours, then left during line training as they got based somewhere else in Europe and they wanted to live at home.
(they are still unemployed now.) They potentially blocked other pilots willing to do anything to get their foot in the door to a flying job, that is the worst part!
The main point I was trying to make to people is basically don't complain and moan that you don't have a job if you are not AS WILLING as the next guy. It simply comes down to what you are willing to do to create a career for yourself, no one will make your career for you. If you want a 9 - 5 job working in your home town then it's probably better join the local flying school and work at a more regular job or by all means work as a flight instructor!