You raise a very important often overlooked point - currency.
Wannabes need to remember that the moment they get their license/IR issued the clock starts ticking on their IR and Multi Rating. You have to do the minimum hours and be able to pass the rating test next year. You will have to pay for those hours and that test at your own expense if you have not found an employer in that first year.
If you are down to Aldi beans and only just being able to pay the bank interest then this is where a lot of people come unstuck. Ratings are allowed to lapse, currency evaporates and you stand a diminishing chance of being called for interview OR of passing a sim assessment.
Intensively learned flying skills on short courses gets you up to a high standard quickly but some feel that you lose that skill just as rapidly.
Professional flying is a lot about weighing worst case scenarios and planning sensible strategies. Professional Wannabeism is no different.
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