I will have spent longer flying for a living than doing any other job. I've worked for banks, accountants, software companies and even cleaned streets for living. But no job has ever been better than this one. But I would ACTIVELY discourage any of my children from following a career in aviation. Now it is an idiot's game. Too many people chasing too few jobs and ever reducing T's & C's. This is partly because of the desperate wannabes on the bottom rung. You guys have made your own grave, crapping in everybody's nest along the way. Another reason this the rise of the likes of the Pikey and his mob. Fortunately I'll shortly be retiring on a good wack whilst those on the bottom will be forever fighting over the biggest
in a drying up cesspool. Other reasons are feral management,
security guards following rules set by the frightened
in the DfT, rapacious airport management have all made it a system that my children would be better off avoiding. Having no proper selection scheme other then the ability to raise cash ensures that only wealthy fools can enter. Hopefully, the end the current system won't be smoking holes in the ground.
Until airlines select their employees as ab-initios it won't be a job worth doing. To make flying a worthwhile career, we'll have to reduce the numbers who enter until it is just less than the demand. Posts like this might help, but I doubt it. I'll just do my one holiday flight a year (unless I can drive, take the train or a boat) so as not to add to the demand for flying.
Hey, enjoy guys - but you would have better spent your money on plumbing, Gas Council and Part P courses. You would have been employed, have less debt, a stable life, proper rest, a nice little Tiger Moth in the hangar and been in real demand.
PM