Please, somebody put me off flying…
Evening all,
Long time lurking, infrequent poster here.
I’m in the incredibly fortunate position to be a Train Driver here in the UK for a long distance, high speed Train Operating Company, which (despite what the Daily Fail like to promote), is a fantastically lucrative role for both work-life balance, and for the wage slip each month. Each night I get to go home, see my wife, attend parties (most of the time) and the railway provides a lifestyle that we sadly all know aviation definitely does not.
However…
The goal, dream, ambition, call it what you will, is to fly commercially.
How can it be, that an industry that’s so volatile, provides significantly less time off, lower pay, far worse conditions, and general mental peril, can STILL have this appeal to somebody in such a lucky position?
I’m 32 now, so likely past the stage of these MPL programmes, but I still dream of the day I enrol up to BGS to begin those lovely 14 exams.
My request is this;
Please, somebody… put me off flying!