Originally Posted by
redsnail
In what state will the aviation environment be in 2-5 years time? If I knew that, I would be sitting in the back of the jet, not flying it!
P40Warhawk has some great advice.
If you can't be bothered to do learn a trade etc, go work in a factory or supermarket for a year. Learn the value of your labour so you won't be duped by greedy employers. Also, you'll be putting money into your own pocket, rather than taking it all from your parents.
Where do you want to work? Where can you work? Are you willing to move far away from home in pursuit of your first -> last job? During Covid, freight boomed and so did private jet flying. The US has been going crazy employment wise but appears to be cooling off a little bit, in no small part due to a lack of aeroplane deliveries.
I’d go down this line of a year or so working an odd job. Time to get some of the boozing out your system. Try the world of work, but not hold yourself back too much. Gives you something to talk about.
Don’t learn to be a plumber. That’s nonsensical for someone with the absolute aim to be a pilot. You’d waste four or five years as an apprentice working up to holding a qualification that there’s a good chance you’d never use, ever. And if you do, it’ll be for 18 months in a downturn where you’d make €50K as a plumber rather than €30k doing an odd job in an office. The economics don’t stack up.
Degree? Yeah if you’re keen but you’ll never ever use it. Uni is fun though and definitely ticks the life experience box.
Remember that every year you delay your training is a year less making 200K as a training captain.
Absolutely use your parents money to pay for the training, any suggestion otherwise is from sheer jealously. Would be insane not to when it’s on a plate for you.