Boy oh boy, here we go again! :ugh::ugh::ugh:

I know the aviation world is a bit insular and many people on the Wannabe Forums on PPRUNE are young and therefore have not experienced other industries, but this is not the only industry in which the number of young people training each year is greater than the number of jobs available!

It's standard within most desireable professions in case you didn't know!

IMHO it's a good thing in aviation because the training isn't hard enough to weed out the less able pilots and I don't know about you lot, but there are plenty of pilots I've seen in my FTO who I wouldn't feel safe flying with even with a set of controls in front of me, let alone having them sitting at the sharp end of a passenger jet where they could cause real harm! :eek:

I dont expect to get a job handed to me on a plate and am planing on starting my FI rating after my IR. I love flying and I think that is my problem, I would fly for food and would be delighted to get a job as an FI. I think it is mad for anybody to think that they will walk into a jet job straight after finishing training. I just dont want to go back to working on a frezzing cold building site for the rest of my days, I have always wanted to be a pilot and have been bittin by the bug and I dont think any other job would do now.

That positive attitude may be what drives you to make more effort getting a job than many others. Good luck. :ok:

There is always the uncertainty Docgloom, even now with my foot on the first rungs of the ladder. I worry that it will never progress from that. So I have my parachute, lifejacket and clean underwear ready for the next thing, just in case.

Someone mentioned acting, in many ways it is similar. Real actors just want to act, fame is neither here nor there. They always find some work. They get by. The fame junkies just want to be famous. A lot of them fall by the wayside. So it is with flying. If you want to fly you will find a way. If you only want to be a highly paid airline pilot, with a cool uniform. You may struggle. I've met a few of those in my time. Some of the best flying you will do is in small aeroplanes off rough strips, on your own for peanuts. Some 'pilots' find that terrifying!

Corsair I think you hit the nail on the head, I think I would get bored being a jet jock. I never started out with the idea of being a jet jock and I am not in it for the glory or the money, Its all about the love of flying for me I would be happy flying anything. I just hope at the end of the day its not a kite in the back garden :ugh:.

The same for me ! I dream about bush-flying above the Savannah !!! :ok:

But then you have to feed your family.... and the dog. :sad::{