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Old 6th Apr 2009, 08:38
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Lets say you are located at place X .

And the flying school is at place Y or place Z within India .

How would you retain your job at place X if you had to physically move to place Y or Z ?

We dont know what your job profile is , but if you could move out of X and go to Y or Z in India , then you could also go to place A , B or C located out of India .

May be you might talk about juggling between the two places now ..

Two points thereafter ..

A . Schools in India expect you to go to the school each day and wait with a baby face till your turn to fly comes up . You keep telling them that you want to go back to X for sometime and come back , they will not take you seriously and will make you wait even more for your turn , its like moving out of a que only to rejoin at the end ..

Secondly your employer at X in wondering why you are not on your job most of the time and then the problems that will follow .

B . There are two ways about going for a thing .

Take for example an airline pilot studying for his ATPL while going to work too .

1.Everyone who has tried to do it knows how difficult is is to do that . You have to keep a lower target , may be like one subject , you have to start much earlier and you need to retain for longer .

2.There are people who take leave 10 days prior to exam , switch thier phone's off and go all out . When the exam is done they get back to what they were doing . Here one can go all out , concenterate , retain much better .. The departure from what they do on a day to day basis was for a nominal period and they are back to thier lives with positive results hopefully .

To each his own .

Point is , my suggestion to you is , get rid of all the crap that takes time in India , like your medical , your papers etc etc . Only thing that should be required should be the hours . Untill this point your investments will be low and you could be juggling between X and Y without a shade of doubt . Once you are there , apply for a leave , go abroad , get your hours within weeks ( Yes it is possible ) and come back to work at X .

Apply for your conversion ( money talks bull**** walks ) and believe me its not too tough to do it yourself too .

Start struggling for a job .

Once you have it , bid goodbye to people at X while they keep wondering when you did all this ..

Good Luck ..
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