If you hadn't got into flying....

[angelorange]

What would you (or would you like to) be doing?

[Token Bird]

One thing's for sure, I'd be a lot richer, though considerably more bored!

[redsnail]

Probably doing what I did to pay for this flying lark.
Working at uni in the biology department. Would have done a degree part time.
Definitely would have saved a bundle but also wouldn't have seen a great deal of Oz and now Europe, North Africa, Russia and the ME. Now earning a lot more than my former colleagues.

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

Currency trader.

I recently enjoyed a pint in London with someone 5 years younger than me whom I had once hired for a summer job.

Last year he earned £240k salary trading between the dollar, sterling, yen and euro.

WWW

[SinBin]

International playboy.

Oh hang on......... :}

[Caudillo]

But is he happy?

Damn right he is, I bet!

I'd love to be doing something that has more room to stretch myself than flying will allow, something a little less mentally suffocating.

Still time.

[Hansard]

Pilot recruitment because I've seen so many airlines make a complete bodge of it.

[Curious Pax]

Currency trader.
I recently enjoyed a pint in London with someone 5 years younger than me whom I had once hired for a summer job.
Last year he earned £240k salary trading between the dollar, sterling, yen and euro.
WWW
Bet he's got a bigger office than you too! Mind you I suspect that the view from the window isn't so good!!

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

Sod the view, feel the 911 Carrera 4S in Slate Grey Metallic and Black/Terracotta interior... I was rather taken with it. At barely 28 I don't envy the little sod in any way.

WWW

[potkettleblack]

Not to mention the fact that if he likes flying he can take himself off to the US and do an FAA licence and IR add on, buy a nice little aircraft and go on weekend jollies across Europe and the like with his mates.

[fatboy slim]

I'd be a Copper.

So I could nick 28 year olds with Porches.:ok:

[Wingswinger]

I'd probably have gone into banking (economics degree) and own an airline instead of working for one!

[winkle]

nah! security bod at lhr or man. just think of the power you have, you can reduce a jumbo crew to a jibbering heap with the power vested in you by the authorities.
;)

[Aristoteles]

Make money, lots of it, in any legal if not lawful way, buy my own aircraft and fly for PLEASURE!

[TheGorrilla]

I'd be a complete waster. I'd probably be earning sod all, travel around a bit and spend what I had in seedy bars and clubs getting smashed.....

Oh hang on....... :uhoh:

That seems to describe my life rather well anyway. :{

[dlav]

Id have a positive bank balance for a start

WWW - The view from inside a C4S wouldn't be too bad either!
Cheers

[Young Pilot]

Certainly I'd be doing something else aviation related if I wasn't able to be a pilot. Possibilities could include such occupations as an air traffic controller, airport manager, line crew...but my heart would certainly not be with any of those:sad:.

[ChocksAwayUK]

When these threads crop up it's always heartening to see how many have substituted highly paid City/banking careers for not so well paid pilot careers. Good choice, I think.

[fiftypercentn1]

Engeneer in telecommunications.

[Piltdown Man]

Now are we talking about what would do for money or for enjoyment? For enjoyment, I'd be a part-time gliding instructor (model making when not) but for money I'd go weedle my way into the City to become a modern day thief what's now called a "Banker".

PM

[TheGorrilla]

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I've got it!!!! :)

PORN STAR!

[Young Pilot]

What about you angelorange? What would your substitute job be? :cool: