Callsign Kilo
My jibe about McDonald's harps back to a few years ago when there were fewer jobs and the joke was "What do you say to a guy with an fATPL?" "Big Mac and fries please!!". I removed it myself as it is not relevent today and on hindsight was a bit mean.
Personally I sold my house and bought an apartment to fund my training. I still have the CPL and MCC to do, but do it in little chunks while still working in between.
I went into this with my eyes open and do not expect to walk into a job when I finally get all the bits of paper. In fact it actually scares me when I sign up for my next module and arrive at the flight school to see it inundated with potential f/o's. The number of guys self funding at the moment is mind blowing and has certainly taken me aback.
For me I see it like the national lottery "you gotta be in it to win it", if I don't have the bits of paper I won't get a job that is for sure, if I do have the bits of paper at least I'll have a chance. I don't believe anybody owes me a job, yes it would be nice to think that after spending all that money, and in my mind possessing very unique and specialised skills that you would be highly saught after, however it's market forces and I know there will be many, many others out there with the same skills as myself to compete against.
Really Angrywife, you should not be angry with the airlines, they are not charities (or rather they are as they will take money from whatever source they can get) they can not just hand out jobs willy nilly to fulfill someone's dream. They have to make a profit and keep the shareholders happy. If they did just hand out jobs they would exceed the salary budget, put the company in a financially precarious position and jeopordise the jobs of hundreds of people. I can sympathise with you're plight but business is business and can remember the early 90's when people in all industries were being made reduntant and home repossessions were soaring, and these were people in normal jobs who had not paid for any training. Business is a cut-throat game and is there to make money for the shareholders and not to make dreams come true no matter what industry you in.
Last edited by smith; 19th Feb 2007 at 21:17.