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Old 30th Oct 2011, 19:30
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silverknapper
 
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Without wanting to pry it depends so much on what the options actually are.

Airlines vary massively. There are 5/4 patterns where you are flogged on your days on but guaranteed to be left untouched on your offs. Then you have night freighting turboprop style where you'll wonder what happened to that thing you had called a life.

Corporate is the same. You have the massive outfits where things are run more or less like a nice stable airline but with a lot more focus on Customer Service. And in nice new machines to a massive variety of destinations in good hotels. You'll see most of the Cities in your area of operation whilst if you took the airline route you barely have time to even get out your seat. Then you have the two bit outfits who will threaten you with the boot if you aren't on 24/7 standby, regardless of what your roster said. In old machines where people are perhaps less willing to snag faults.

Each career path has so many variations it is hard to generalise.

I used to work for a regional Turboprop outfit and really enjoyed it. I fell into corporate work by accident and love it also, but for different reasons.
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