Muddy Boots
27th Mar 2010, 04:19
This is going to get me lynched but here we go...
As time progresses the value of money diminishes, decade upon decade a pound has been worth less and less money and it's buying power is next to nothing as time goes on. In the 60's the cost of a car bought you a motorbike in the 70's, in the new millenium it became a big night out, of course I mean a big night out.
100k 15-20 years ago was a massive amount of money which bought a house in central London, now it's not enough for a deposit for a flat in some places.
Flight training is expensive and add in a type rating, yes you're talking about 100k. However over the course of a decade or more importantly over maybe three or four decades during a career it's going to rapidly become chump change.
If you go to law school in America you're going to end up with at least 150k in student loans to be paid back with just as little chance of finding well paid jobs. Yes, I know a with the exchange rate it's cheap going to America from Britain at times but when you're working in the same economy as your spending, it takes as much work to earn a dollar as a pound.
Another angle, look how long it takes to become a doctor and after you're qualified you have to mad hours for next to no money in casualty. We can go from zero to hero in a year and a half if we get on with it.
To sum up, yes it hurts now to shell out the money but give it a couple of years and it will be a good worth while investment to do something for a living you will hopefully revel in and give you war stories for the pub that will make you the envy of dull suit clad office dwellers. Better that than doing a job it took you a week to train for or less!
As time progresses the value of money diminishes, decade upon decade a pound has been worth less and less money and it's buying power is next to nothing as time goes on. In the 60's the cost of a car bought you a motorbike in the 70's, in the new millenium it became a big night out, of course I mean a big night out.
100k 15-20 years ago was a massive amount of money which bought a house in central London, now it's not enough for a deposit for a flat in some places.
Flight training is expensive and add in a type rating, yes you're talking about 100k. However over the course of a decade or more importantly over maybe three or four decades during a career it's going to rapidly become chump change.
If you go to law school in America you're going to end up with at least 150k in student loans to be paid back with just as little chance of finding well paid jobs. Yes, I know a with the exchange rate it's cheap going to America from Britain at times but when you're working in the same economy as your spending, it takes as much work to earn a dollar as a pound.
Another angle, look how long it takes to become a doctor and after you're qualified you have to mad hours for next to no money in casualty. We can go from zero to hero in a year and a half if we get on with it.
To sum up, yes it hurts now to shell out the money but give it a couple of years and it will be a good worth while investment to do something for a living you will hopefully revel in and give you war stories for the pub that will make you the envy of dull suit clad office dwellers. Better that than doing a job it took you a week to train for or less!