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Old 13th Feb 2011, 10:04
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Say again s l o w l y
 
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Let me guess, another frustrated wannabe pilot...

I tell you what, once you've been a pilot for 10 years, then you can tell me if you still find it a job that you'd do simply for the passion rather than for a decent salary.

It helps to have passion for any job, but that doesn't stop them being JOBS.

If you go into flying with your eyes blinkered to reality, then you are a fool. Any career has it's good days and bad, but at the end of it all, after a couple of years, you lose the misty eyed outlook of someone looking in from the outside and realise what the job actually entails.

If you are happy to be a Captain on a jet for £45K a year (I'm fairly certain even RYR don't pay that little) then you are a total and utter eejit, who should be drummed out of the profession for being a dangerous lunatic who shouldn't be in charge of a blunt pencil let alone a mulit-million pound aluminium tube moving at 500mph 6 miles above the ground.
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