Originally Posted by
AlphaMale
Man It would be so much easier if my parents would just hand me the money.
I have to make a sacrifice of not getting on the property ladder yet in order to do my training. It's a risk and if it all goes wrong then
£50k wasted and 18 months of not earning anything and 4 years of not being on the property ladder (take into consideration the cost of houses in 4 years time).
Think I like many others fall into the
'If you want it bad enough you will work hard and make sacrifices to get there'.
You should do the same, I am sure you'll feel a lot better for it when your fully qualified - and what a story to tell them in the airline interview when they ask
'How did you fund your training? and what sacrifices did you make to get here?'
Gawd, are all pilots that undertake their training < 25 from upper-middle class backgrounds? How I wish I had parents who could pay for my training! At the moment I get a tenner a week from EMA while I'm in college, and every penny is going in the bank *insert the tesco slogan here* because, while my parents own our house, they're not planning to dissapear off into the great blue yonder anytime soon! But then again, I suppose when I'm up to my ears in debt when I've finished training (whether im employed or not!) I'd still be able to say everything I've achieved has been entirely off my own back.
Though I am quite worried because there is absolutely nothing else I can imagine myself doing as a profession and while I have a Class 1 medical now (I had one purely so I wasn't following some pipe-dream) if my legs should fall off I'm well and truly buggered!
Sorry, what a completely pointless ramble that was!
Lee