Pavetack,
I'll pass your infantile remarks in utter silence.
To your only question: No, I'm not an FAA licensed dispatcher. I'm licensed by the danish civil aviation auth.
Homer Simpson,
Quite agree with the wannabe pilots. We've had the "pleasure" of having quite a few of them in the department, and just when they've reached a satisfactory level they're off for a flying job and we can start all over training a new guy. After a while that gets kind of boring. So to end that regime, the lot of us (dispatchers / rostering / flightwatch / loadcontrol) approached management and "advised" them of how we felt about that policy. And they've stopped hiring wannabees, which has worked wonders for the department and thus the product we deliver is far better than previous.
I get the feeling that some, if not most, of you guys feel unappreciated by the companies you work for. Maybe not on a personal level, but there is not much in the way of respect for the jobs you do. Is this something generic to british aviation ? Where I'm from the entire operation, be that flightcrews, rostering, despatch, loadcontrol etc, is seen as a team. Surely, some pilots have a "superiority complex" but it doesn't go well with management, and as such the feeling of being in it together is what dominates the way we do business. Maybe we're just lucky, or maybe it's something you need to work on with your respective companies.