Gidday Sean,
I can only comment on my situation here on the other side of the world.
I did 25 years in non-aviation industry, then spent 10 years working up the fixed-wing ladder. Earlier this year, a few months before I turned 50, I got my first helicopter job. Almost all such jobs in Oz are somewhere out beyond the black stump.
So now I've started again at the very bottom of the pole. It isn't easy being polite while being lectured to by a 28 year old who got a CPL two years ago and doesn't know half as much as he thinks he does about life and work. The pay is waaaay below what I'd get doing anything else and the politics is very tough, but here I am in remote Australia beginning again.
But the flying, the customers and the countryside are amazing beyond belief, utterly incredible - People, places and experiences that I would never have dreamt of. So here I am, head down, bum up, mouth closed, getting on with life. What a ride :-))))))
There are jobs out there for us OAPs :-), and they are great ones.
"If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right" (Henry Ford)
Last edited by Unhinged; 21st Jun 2008 at 03:16.