Originally Posted by
Arewegettingjets
Most doctors and lawyers negotiate individual contracts, not EBAs.
Secondly, yes they're too smart for this industry. Why would you invest so much for minimal return? 8 years of medicine costs less than a MECIR + ATPL subjects. Troubling really. However, from speaking to someone doing their speciality in pediatrics, the speciality takes longer and is more cost intensive. Further though, there are more scholarships and funding in public universities such as UNSW, Sydney, Melbourne, UQ etc for these professions. Where is the scholarship funding in ours?
No scholarships would suggest to me that the industry has lost its prestigious position among the science faculty. Why? Due to the rise of penny pinching and the striping of conditions.
To add to this also, Doctors and lawyers do not lose their income/jobs if they get a kidney stone, have a minor heart issue, high sugar/cholesterol level, feel down, drink a bit too much, become an inadvertent criminal by transgressing one of many thousands of regulations etc. etc. And if a Doctor or Lawyer really messes up then one person may die or go to prison, yet if a pilot does the same then potentially hundreds may die.
Do Doctors and Lawyers have annual checks of their performance?
If you are young and love to fly then become a doctor or lawyer, have a holiday house and an aircraft in either Canada, NZ or USA and go over there on a regular basis (and probably claim it on tax) and enjoy your flying.