The pilot shortage is a falacy.
This is correct. Some day there may be a pilot shortage, but that day is not today (or at least it wasn't in 2009). If the supply/demand was different, my trip would have been completely different. The Malawi company brought up the fact many times to me that I was the one they picked out of over 100 resume's and that it was my responsibility to make them faun over me, or else they will just dump me and hire someone else (which is exactly what they ended up doing).
If I had a job, I would offer it to you just by the way you write :-)
Thank you, that is very kind. I have a few more stories about my trip that I might write up some day, such as the "bed sheets incident".
You get hired a pilot and the first couple of months your job is to make tea for the boss and wash aircraft's..
I wish they had given me the option to do this. In those days I would have done anything to get a pay check. They didn't even want me doing that it seems...