An Old Thread that was sad

[skyhighbird]

Guys,

Apologies as this may not be the right place to post this but I feel it may be relevant to the current climate.

But about a year or 2 ago or whenever when I first joined PPrune, there was this thread that was started by a wife of a guy who had finished flight training.

The post was very sad - it was her first post and it was mentioning about how her husband had not yet found a job, he was depressed, they had no money and they were pretty much at their wits end. I may be wrong on the facts/over dramatising it - but the post was just asking for support/ideas.

I have been searching for ages to try and find the thread but can't seem to locate it. Does anyone remember reading this that might help? I think we would be going back a few years.

cheers

[Sciolistes]

Yes, she reported that he got an interview eventually, hope it worked out for him :ok:

http://www.pprune.org/interviews-jobs-sponsorship/264579-angry-post-5.html

[skyhighbird]

That's the one I was trying to find. How did you find it by the way?

I wonder if she was even more angry when her husband brought home the contract!!

A job is a job though. There were no further replies so hopefully he did get the job.

[corsair]

And angrier again when he was based on the other side of Europe and she hardly saw him.

But her original post on that thread did strike a chord. Considering the time effort, talent and money required to become a pilot. Employer's and potential employer's attitudes do stink. I and most of us here are well used to it of course but for newcomers or others coming into the business. It must be almost shocking. You see it here on PPRuNE when some newbie finishes their fATPL and then can't understand why no one even responds to their applications let alone gives them an interview. They complain here and are further disillusioned with our callous responses.

Even experienced Captains and FOs get similar treatment by the airlines at times.

I wonder what other professions put up with this. Not many I think. It's not as if the pay was anything to get excited about anymore.

[HighHeeled-FA]

Corsair,

I think that post says it all. I have a PPL. Completed it at 18 but up to now I don't have any passion for going all the way. Private flying is a pure hobby of mine and I get to do it really cheap. But I do love the industry which is why I trawl through most of the forums here to see anything that strikes my interest.

And your response says it all. Take the Terms and Endearment forum where some guy who at 54 is writing about his frustration as to not getting an interview with EK after getting made redundant. About to lose house everything (so he says). Yet the majority of replies are the usual "the industry owes you nothing", "live with it, you're not the only one" etc.

Yes, correct! but you would think there would be more support for/from one of your fellow airmen. But there isn't.

Wannabees coming here frustrated at the lack of jobs, feeling guilt about the fact that their parents are now broke. Any support? Yeah right. All they get are things like"you should have done the research", "its your own fault for going integrated".

What I have noticed about the pilot world is that if you are ok, then sod the rest. A lot of people complain about BALPA being as useless as a chocolate fireguard. This is because its members do not speak with one voice for the reason I just mentioned.

Apart from the banking world, I doubt there is another industry as cut-throat and as unsympathetic as the commmercial pilot world.

I wouldn't be a an airline pilot even if you paid me.

Bunch of bankers.

[BSmuppet]

700 odd views and no one has replied to your post HH & corsair. It seems you guys have hit the old nail on the head.

bunch of bankers love it:ok: