Hmmmm? Why is it whenever I browse this particular forum it is always full of posts seeking reassurance and sympathy??
Gentlemen, and ladies (if applicable), you, and you alone are ultimately the creators of your own destinys. Fortune may be in your favour or it may go against you, but it is up to you to make the key decisions that will hopefully maximise your full potential and lead to the results you desire.
Smartcol, I am absolutely amazed that you seem to be so childish and naive.
Flypuppy, you paid your money, got your licence and now there are no jobs available. Thats a fact of life at the moment I'm afraid. Get used to it, I'm not offering sympathy to any grown adult with half a brain and in control of his own bowel movements. The only crumbs of comfort I can think of is the fact that everybody started somewhere (i.e low TT), pilots don't go on forever and one day there will be jobs available. Its inevitable, but maybe not next year or even five years from now. Who knows? In the late 1980's pilots were snapped up by half decent airlines the day after their CPL/IR was issued. Seems like fantasy land now but yes, it really did happen!
Please, please, please can we have some creative posts and useful information on here and not this continual " I worked really, really hard, and took two years of !!!!! from my FTO, and paid them many thousands of pounds of borrowed money and now all I can do is stack shelves at Tesco's"!!
Did you guys not have any form of contingency plan? (I thought good aviators always had a backup plan) Were you really so stupidly blinded by the "glamour" and "glory" of a professional flying career that you didn't contemplate this scenario before you started?
We all make choices and must all live with the consequences. I'm a flight engineer, my days in this post are surely numbered, I'm in the same boat as you in so far as I have my pilots licence but with no firm job lined up. But am I whinging about how things are so unfair? NO.