I know lots and lots of professional pilots. People who decided to make their living flying aircraft.
They are "Career Pilots".
Most of them started off earning by providing instruction and when career progression came along, they took the oportunity presented to them.
From experience, most "career instructors" are people who have started out as "career pilots" but have not made any progression beyond PPL flight instruction..............in some cases that is because they are not the type of pilot/person that one wants to sit beside in a Commercial Jet.........and in at least one case, I would not sit next to them in any aircraft!
Is career stagnation realy a good thing?
If it is then obvously we will have the following;
Good pilots who teach will be stuck teaching.
Good teachers will never become Head.
Good a&e doctors will never progress to department heads or consultants.
Good bobbys will never progress from the beat to plain clothes
......now would that be good?
Regards,
DFC