This must be the only industry where you spend ££££'s and hundreds of hours of study and sacrifice to gain a licence/qualification.
You then spend months, sometimes years searching for that first elusive job, which pays peanuts but you get it eventually.
Its instructing, or its a regional commuter but it is fine for now....
You then spend months or years on the bread line hoping that one day soon your CV will be picked up by the chief pilot of Big Airways.
That day arrives!! Brill! You jack-in your !!!!ty paid flying job and move onto your big comfy airliner job. The salary is good, the pension is good, the flying is great, every thing is peachy!...This is what i was waiting for and it is every thing i thought it would be.
SIX YEARS getting here, yes SIX YEARS! and now i'm going to enjoy it.
So now i can buy that big house, the nice car, i can now afford to go on holiday at last.
I am still paying off that training loan, but hey, i can now afford it.
3 1/2 years sat fat dumb and happy and WHACK!!!!
No job, no redundancy, nothing but £60.50 per week, job seekers allowance to live on.
I still have the large house, the nice car, the training loan still to be paid etc. But no job to pay for it all!
And now i am back in familiar territory, exactly where i was 6 years ago only with NO money in my pocket!
Where ever i go from here i will be starting at the bottom again,from scratch. This industry is like an incurable drug addiction......It is really bad for you, but you just wanna keep on doing it
I need a cure!
