Jugs:
Thanks for you advice. But you assume I'm an idiot…
How do you expect people to listen if you talk to them like that?
Your (sic) blaming Young people that are pursuing their career even in the face of adversity? What's wrong with you?
Have you forgotten these posts already? They weren’t that long ago, and now you are doing exactly the same thing.
Anyone that can justify paying 2x the cost to then be in the same boat as those that spent half is simply an idiot. And they have no business sense.
With that comment, you are branding a few thousand people whose personal lives and financial circumstances you know absolutely nothing about, as (senseless) idiots.
By sheer coincidence, I actually know someone who left school the exact same year you did. She took the integrated route, paid for a bus TR, and has already spent a year in the RHS of a major airline. During that period she has netted twice the cost of the TR, and now has over 1,000 hours TT, including 800+ on type. Her debt should be paid off in about 5 years time, by which time she will still only be 26, and possibly eligible for command. I would argue that that has been a worthwhile investment in her future career. After all we are not talking about buying £100k worth of Poll Peck shares here. We are talking about a £100k investment with a potential £3m+ payback over the next forty years or so.
I keep hearing about the horrors of paying for a type rating. However, as a legitimate business expense, the VAT is reclaimable immediately, and the remainder is tax-deductible. The true cost of a £30k TR is therefore about £19k. That’s a pretty reasonable investment if it leads to immediate employment and a transportable skill to another airline, if or when things go belly-up. It certainly compares well with paying £30-35k for a three year media studies degree, in the hope there might be a job in journalism or at the BBC at the end of it.
You say you are debt free, which is a combination of going modular and paying-as- you-go. The only difference between paying up front and PAYG, is the amount of debt interest. However, if you believe that to be a valid argument, then you would never take out a mortgage to buy a house, and would prefer to miss out on the benefits of owning and living in one while you are saving up.
I'm not saying its wrong to have attrition in an industry but when it's 95% of the time linked to the size of your wallet rather than actual ability or dedication it is wrong.
Not sure you actually understand what ‘attrition’ means with that comment, but as for the last part of the sentence, how can you possibly know whether that is true or not? Again, you know absolutely nothing about the thousands of people you are ‘dissing’ with a remark like that. For a start only about 10% of the guys who apply to a particular well-known FTO are accepted on to the course after a stringent two day assessment. The reason for that is that this particular FTO will refund the cost of training if you pass the assessment and subsequently turn out to be a duffer. That costs them money, which they obviously try to avoid. And believe it or not, no one actually asks to see the contents of your wallet until after you have signed up for a particular course.
Secondly, some major airlines use the training history and recommendations from the FTO to short-list the best candidates for interview. Their individual selection procedure then skims off the cream from that bunch. So to say they have no ‘actual ability or dedication’ is simply unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue.
I hope you do find employment soon, but becoming one of the band of miserable, frustrated and disillusioned individuals who spend a good proportion of their sad lives on this forum, and get their kicks from insulting people they don’t know, is not going to help that cause. You need to stay positive, and have belief in your own abilities. Whether or not you personally took the right decision to go modular, should then become clear in the fullness of time.