Dilemma
Don't know if this is the best place to post this but here goes..
Imagine the scene....
You are 32, fATPL, plenty of SEP/MEP time from several yrs p/t instructing / examining etc. IR/MCC etc etc.
You passed selection for a major regional 18 months ago, but due to market conditions have only just been offered position on TP. As first commercial jobs go, it's a good un (I think).
Sounds good so far ? Great...
Whilst slowly but inexorably making your way to this point over the last few years, your "other" career (the one that makes the money the other absorbs) has progressed. A few years ago the decision would have been a no-brainer, as you enjoy flying more than the core skills required for your other career. However now you look up and find the salary gap has widened significantly (not helped by the reduction in many starting salaries over the last few years). That wouldn’t be so bad in isolation, but if you commit another three years to this particular company you gain a directorship and acquire share options which could pay off your mortgage.
If you commit these three/four years, you re-enter the aviation job market in your mid thirties, and back at the start of the application process. You really don't want to miss the recruitment boat (in case it's the only one leaving!), but find it difficult to ignore the prospect of a major financial leg-up in life.
Whad’ya do ? Or in other words, is the financial benefit from one job worth the postponement of a career and the subsequent narrowing of your options as you try to get that elusive first job ?
Last edited by Mack Buffet; 2nd May 2004 at 21:56.