Part-time job while doing flight training
 

Hey guys I hope to start my flight training in October this year and was wondering how hard is it to work a part-time job and do a fully integrated ATPL.
From all the schools I have visited they say there is not that much free time outside of the course, is this true?

Why should they be joking? You're not about to attend a comedian school, aren't you? Intending to become an airline pilot is serious business! Besides, underestimating the ATP studies is nothing uncommon, you aren't the first and for sure won't be the last! As already mentioned by "keeflyer" it's not possible to work a full time job while attending a full time ATP course, this isn't like evening school, this will be the challenge of your lifetime. If you need/want to make some money prior starting the course in October I'd say go and find yourself a seasonal job or any other kind of job for the summer, but once the studies start you'll very soon recognize that the ATP studies will be very time demanding and won't leave any time to spare! Not everyone who embarks on this journey will make it to the intended destination. Anyway, good luck.

This is a new one on me.

To be honest during groundschool you will barely have time to eat never mind have a job, forget it.
During the flying phase there's quite a bit more time available so why not. I'm flirting with the idea and I know others who have/had jobs.

But the flying phase may require flexibility as schedules change due to weather/aircraft going tech/instructors going sick etc. Would an employer be able to accommodate an employee who keeps calling in saying they can't make it to work as they have to fly?

Integrated ground school is a ridiculously intense six months, and instructors will tell you that you're completing many years of work in just a few months. Ground school is, and will be your whole life for that six months. It probably averages-out at six hours of study per day, every day, for six months. Any sort of job within that time is just impossible.

It's six hours a day of instruction, followed a couple of hours of compulsory computer-based-training, after which you ideally need to go over and makes notes about the things you've covered that day. If there's any spare time in the evening, ideally you need to be doing the question banks and exam preparation. I start at 08:30, finish at 16:30, with a working lunch and a short coffee break, and go to bed at 10:00PM. So that's six hours of instruction during the day, and around four hours of private study every evening. Weekends are normally spent doing exam preparation, possibly with the odd day-off once every few weeks, when not close to any exams. In five months of ground school, I can count how many study-free days I've had on one hand.

In a nutshell, it's impossible to have a job of any sort during integrated ground school. It just won't happen. :ouch:

You're of course absolutely correct. But there are opportunities for part time / evening work / bar jobs / uber driving.

People doing degrees much much harder than flying manage to juggle part time jobs. It's not that difficult, just needs focus