Originally Posted by lingdee
The moment you decide to be a pilot, you will have to expect : -
1) your job is routine and repetitive
2) Your promotion, pay check, your life and roster is being decide by management
3) your annual leave, where you base, what aircraft you fly and many more is being decide by other people and your job is to only take instruction from people forever so long you are in this career ( maybe till 65 )
With all due respect, lingdee, I would suggest that your statement could just as easily have been the following:
Unless you own and operate your own company, the moment you decide to be a (fill-in-the-blank – school teacher, doctor, lawyer, sales agent, astronaut, ditch digger, etc.), you will have to expect:
1) Your job will be routine and repetitive (unless you have a unique ability to recognize the possibility of the vast amount of potentials)-
2) Your promotion, pay check, your life, and roster will be decided by management (unless of course you bring a new, exciting, more simple structure, a better approach, or some other job-improvement idea to the table)-
3) Your annual leave, to some degree at least, where you live, what equipment you will use and many more issues will be decided by other people, and your job will be to take instruction from people forever so long you are a (fill-in-with-same-job-function) (probably ‘till you retire) -(unless, of course, and again, you are able to recognize the potentials, and for some, or all of those potentials, are able to provide a newer, better, easier, more effective, less costly method to accomplish the same job functions).
There is no job, no profession, no "calling," that is insulated from the above-mentioned factors. Some people believe they must keep their "nose to the grind stone" and "their shoulder to the wheel," and must not recognize what is happening, and where or how or if ... they may have ideas that are worth exploring, any one of which might put the whole function into a new category of operation. Imagination is available to all who recognize that fact ... and imagination, simply by its definition, cannot be held within boundaries defined by "other" persons.