Is Flying your second carrer? What was your first?

[window-seat]

What proffesion were you in, and what age were you before you 'gave it all up' to follow the dream?

[Kermit 180]

I pushed a pen for 5 years at an insurance company. You didnt mention what yours was.

Kermie :confused:

[helimutt]

I was/am a marine engineer working on tankers. Had the misfortune to go on a helicopter pleasure flight in ST Lucia in 1993 whilst working on a cruise ship and got bitten by helicopter bug! Since then? PPL(H),PPL(A), Instructor for Heli's FI(H)(R), and now halfway through the commercials. It's never too late. Just how much do you want it?
:D

[Old_Belgian_Student]

I was 30yr old engineer in construction business when I gave it all up. Now 32, passed dutch ATPL theoretical exams and 10hrs into PPL

Yours,

OBS

[DownIn3Green]

10 years ATC experience, tower and radar. Got the PPL and CPL the hard way using the GI Bill at a USAF aero club in 1978 and haven't looked back.

[Luftwaffle]

A librarian for seven years.
31-year-old student pilot.
32-year-old commercial pilot.
On track to have my ATPL by my 35th birthday.

[ 15 August 2001: Message edited by: Waffle ]

[Rotorbike]

5 years in an Accounts Office

5 years London Motorcycle Courier

8 years ago aged 29 thought I would be a helicopter pilot.

:)

[NigelS]

1.Brick Cleaner
2.Diamond Driller (I did the holes for the crash barrier posts between Rothersthorpe and Watford Gap on the M1)
3.Restaurant Manager
4.Trainee Medical Technical Officer
5.Medical Technical Officer (Nuclear Medicine)
6.University
7.Pathologist
8.Head of Molecular Pathology (large pharmaceutical company)

Always wanted to fly. didn't get into the RAF. Every job has been crap in some way or other. I've always known what I wanted to do but it's taken till now (36) to realise that I must go for it or be eternally unhappy.
Like most I will be severely out of pocket at the end of the road. However, if I get a job flying anything I will be a happy man..

Hope this helps

Nige

[window-seat]

Thanks for the replies people, heres my brief history:-

Paper boy (cold & wet)
Trainee Aircraft Fitter (146 & ATP) @ BAE (should have stayed)
Trainee Technical draughsman (skint)
Architectural Technician (snore)
Barman (burp)!
University (burp)!
Architect (bored)!
PPL (hooked)
Integrated ATPL - start October (wish me luck)!

Keep em coming! :D

[sydneyc]

window seat

where are you going for your intergrated course?

sydneyc

[window-seat]

Sydneyc

espania! (hopefully) need I say more?
:D

[CAP509castaway]

15 years as a dentist, 2 years part time instructing then 1st job on TPs :D :D :D

[Blammo]

4 yrs uni £30 000
2 yrs lab tech and treating the resultant ulcer £300

Quitting your job, sneeking into the bosses office at night with champers and cigars, getting horribly pissed and bottling the bastard what he comes thru the door the next morning - Priceless

Ahh, the dreams we dream. AIB in sept and off the uncertain, if pant wettingly cool profession of getting shot at for a living

Wish me luck!

[SixDemonBag]

Alcoholic...