Whilst I might not agree with the tone of egcc's post, I do agree with the sentiment. We sat down and looked at the numbers, loss of earnings in excess of £40k, £30k ish to train and no job at the end of it, it makes no sense to give up the day job to train for a year. There are plenty of ways you can spend £30,000 to retrain yourself to do something else, if changing jobs is all you are looking for.
There has to be something else that drives you to make the change. For me it is a love of all things mechanical, the responsibility of carrying passengers and flying the aircraft, and a grandfather who used to tell my brother and I endless stories of his time in 617 squadron. None of these I consider to be logical reasons to change, but it is something I want to do more than anything else, and now that I have the opportunity, we are taking the plunge and doing it.
Who could want you not to have the answers or be able to make an informed decision?
Conspiracy Rob? Who could ever want to pull the wool over our eyes
