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Old 24th November 2001 | 19:24
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Wedge

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I know that *some* (but not many) BA cadets are far less committed to the career than blackknight and Greaser, and you also have the added pressure on you of making good your parents' investment and passing everything first time.

Not saying that with BA you don't have that pressure, but you can still decide half way through the course it's not for you and stop working and fail the exams. Happens less now but when BA advertised in the national press there were many cases of people seeing the advert, applying and getting in. I am not taking anything away from them either - good luck to them - but, their parents were not funding them which is a different kind off pressure.

That said, there are also those rich kids who don't know what to do for a career, and their parents say "Why don't you become a pilot?".......and so on.

No one needs to know who is funding your training so keep it to yourself, it's a hard course and it will be even harder to find a job at the end of it. The best way to get any job, I have no doubt, is to know people, so if you don't have inside contacts now, then make some........and this goes for everyone looking to get a job. There are lots of ways of doing so and if you don't know what they are then find out.

Don't feel in the least but worried that there are those who have had it harder than you, that's life and you either get the breaks or you don't......but you make your own luck and if you do get a lucky break it's usually because you put yourself in the right position to get it.
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