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Old 20th Apr 2014, 04:03
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allwornout
 
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Don't do it

Don't do it. Helicopter jobs all begin where the road ends. That means if you want to make any cash at all, you'll have to be somewhere like a camp in Nigeria, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, or somewhere like that. The jobs in nice cities don't pay and those cities are expensive to live in. Jobs are infrequent and cyclical. You can go 1 1/2 years looking for work with lots of experience. The "love" wears off after a while. Once you've done any job for a year, you have no more challenge and its the same old thing so don't kid yourself about love. Get into something with a good future from a university degree. Make good money. Buy yourself something to fly around in the weekends in. You'll be a lot happier when you reach 65.
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