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Old 30th Jun 2008, 15:58
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nich-av
 
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Ok, why don't you go and work for your money instead?

Many people are funding their training by working as cab drivers, flipping hamburgers or as hitman.

Advantages:
-Lower cost of training, over 50% less than integrated
-Personal flexibility
-You get to choose the schools you think meet your needs the best
-You can switch schools whenever you feel you're not happy
-If you can't find a job immediately you can keep your hamburger job and will not have problems keeping current
-No debts at graduation
-No debts=less stress in finding your first airline job
-Life experience from your hamburger job
-Higher motivation and personal satisfaction at graduation
-Appreciation from recruiters
-If needed, you can more easily buy yourself a type-rating, without stacking debt over debt.
-Better appreciation of your job when starting on the right seat: you don't have debts to pay-off, so you will feel more comfortable with the lower starting salary (on average 1.4K£).

Disadvantages:
-none

If you really want to do it, you can make it debtfree.
I've seen countless people do it and I've done it myself.

Good luck
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