mikeHotel,
Great post....absolutely spot on. You hit the nail squarely on the head when you say that it's not the dream job, but it's the best chance of ANY job in the current market (unless, paraphrasing Dreamshiner - you meet the chief pilots daughter and ...well...you know...)
I too spent a great fun three years getting drunk and chasing girls at Uni....I built a very good (10+ years) career subsequent to this where I earn a lot of money and have no satisfaction. Hence the career change to what I always wanted to do, but was told (erroneously) I would never be able to. I'm fortunate that the non satisfying but well paying job is currently well paying my mortgage, which is better than so many others out there, but....
I didn't reply to my earlier facetious reply, but I will just comment now....
Flintstone, please don't take this the wrong way, because actually I agree with you, but I simply don't see another way - which clearly you do.
Clanger,
Excellent post. I don't feel that any of your suggestions are too silly. Crack on with them old bean, let me know how you get on.
And then earlier....
Don't get me wrong. I feel sorry for any pilot (or indeed anyone) that finds themselves out of work but these cries for someone else to sort the problem are sadly typical. It's always someone elses fault.
Aye, there's the rub....it is indeed, always someone elses problem to sort and even those whining about people saying it's someone elses problem, are - ironically - saying "it's someone elses problem".
Seriously, I'm not on a wind up, but I'd love to have sensible and realistic suggestions as to what you'd have a [generic] newbie with C.250 hours TT on Pistons and the worlds most expensive cheap blue plastic book should do, if not 'buy' their way forward into somewhere like RYR, in the current climate, given that we're repeatedly told there's no FI jobs out there, as mentioned earlier, you probably need 400tt to have any hope of a air taxi role and so on? It ISN'T ideal, I don't think there is ANYONE out there jumping for joy that they can spend another £30k, but give us an option.... (bear in mind I already AM working in a different industry, trying to stay current and ride the storm out...)