I get annoyed when I read posts on here by people who are pilots and condemn others for trying to be the same. The glory days may have gone for you guys but it is still a glamorous and exciting job.
You spent £80k + 18 months living expenses and landed a job on an NG in summer 2008 with an employer that went bust. With 170hrs of time on type you found another NG employer who wanted you in Africa in 2008 and then six months later you found yet another NG job back in the UK.
You're very good at interviews and have prospered in very inhospitable times.
Good for you. I'm really glad and its a nice story thats totally different to the ones I usually hear.
I don't condemn anyone for dreaming of what is still in some measure an exciting and glamorous (nearly all the glamour has gone I think) job. I do condemn the idea of persuing that dream at the moment. Doing so ranges between reckless and pointless.
You can be the exception.
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