Hey there,
1st job in aviation was washing club aircraft at my local club and serving tea to club members and cutting grass. A year later I completed my commercial and travelled everywhere by bus/train with a tent on my back and cv in hand targetting other clubs for the likes of general duties or whatever, also stopping off at glider and skydiving centres,,One in particular had a competition weekend-I helped out in exchange to pitch me tent.First mornig of jumps I like the brown noser that I was washed there aircraft before anyone had arrived that day...god that was desperate. My face obviously fitted and attitude was acceptable and offered a job as relief pilot which ended up with nearly 400hrs in the summer season and a fair bit of twin also.
End of season..kept firing of cv's (no replies) and I dont care what anyone said I was not happy with selling myself through the medium of paper or email so marched into offices, flew light club aircraft into mid sized airports and literally sat on said parked aircraft ON THE RAMP and when I saw an aircraft pull in Id stroll over and hand the pilot my cv, About 2 months and many lonely hours plane spotting sitting on the wing of my club aircraft waiting to pounce on poor unsuspecting pilots, it finally worked.
I decided to sign up to this website and respond to this question as I really wanna encourage you do get active and hussle....Today I flew over bombi at Fl390 ( hence the name ) in my brand new office
about 1 yr on from serving tea..
