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VariablePitchP
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.
So much wrong here.
Not everyone can or will become a training a captain, working backwards not everyone will become a captain, or fly jets or land that job or pass training etc.
You make the bold assumption that one can just land a 30k a year office job? Doing what exactly? If everyone could do it, people would but unfortunately that is just a smidge over the UK average so half wont get to that level and we have to assume at least a few of them have some qualifications.
Quite simply there are too many people finishing flight training and not enough jobs. If you want to see if you can persevere for years and years and miss on lifes big milestone and slog away at GA then by all means spend who ever’s money, but consider it’s probably better spent on a deposit on a house. If you have your own money and you are willing to spend it on training it’s probably a very good indicator that you can do that slog, because you may have to stump up more cash once the parents money is gone anyway.
It really isn’t jealously if you are sharing from your own experience it’s a warning. You have confirmation bias, fine. It’s a thing. But it is downright reckless to dismiss the other side.
If the industry really needed pilots, there would be a lot more bonded training. That should be a huge red flag for anyone.