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Old 1st May 2011, 03:36
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welliewanger
 
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July '07 Finished integrated training.
Feb '08 Started instructor rating.
Mar '08 Instructor job with same company as I did the instructor rating.
Aug '08 Got a jet job, but it turned out to be a fictitious company.
Continued instructing and working for the TRTO (I'd done the rating with them)
Nov '09 Got a job on a large corporate jet, the same one as I'd done the TR on earlier but the job had fallen through.

2 years and 4 months to get the "Dream Job"

FWIW I would recommend being creative and flexible in your approach to getting the job. Don't just send out CVs and fill in job applications. Get varied experience and go out and meet people. You may be a pilot, but working as an ops controller or a fueller or whatever will give you the opportunity to meet people. Without my "other experience" there's no way I would have got this job.

Good luck.
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