Originally Posted by
b320
17 year old here , if I could add my 2 cents , people in my generation treat cadet scheme applications like there applying to uni insted of applying to a job. Many of them haven't even work a single part time job in there lives, then there's me whose working two jobs while balancing a levels to fund my ppl, while other people get mummy and daddy to send them to skybourne it's unfair.
I didn't have the advantage of the "bank of mum and dad", but if I did it would have been silly not to make use of it. I came out with the same piece of paper at the end of it, it just came a year or two later than most people I started my airline career with.
The (funded) cadet schemes are incredibly competitive, the people who are selected will have put an immense amount of effort into their applications and assessment days. Those who didn't simply won't be successful.
Focus on yourself, not other people, we all took different routes to the same place.