A painful topic to discuss rationally.
It's entirely market driven. Training risk goes out of the window when a course has to be filled and filled now. That is the only fact in this business.
Additionally there are wise heads that appreciate the staffing stability offered by candidates with maturity and a family if the geographics coincide.
If I spout off regarding Danny and I starting in our dotages it's encouraging but essentially meaningless. We entered the profession at a different points in the eternal airline cycle. If you can guage where the market is going to be 12 or 18 months down the line with licence in hand you are wasting a lot of money. You should be at a desk or in a dealing room somewhere earning enough to run your own jet.
It's a risk, it always will be. Only you can decide if life not trying your hand would be eternally frustrating.
Regards
Rob
PS. My style checker came up with pragmatic, almost terse - suitable for debt collecting business correspondence only.
