Great lakes and 121 ops

hambone said:
How can you afford to be on the internet let alone purchase a computer?
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I don't have any school loans to pay, no wife, no kids, and saved up money by living at home with my folks when I was a CFI. Now I'm living just fine in Aurora, single bed room apartment, Iphone 4, even have steak every now and again. HAHA. I'm not much worse off than any other pilot at a better paying regional who has to pay off their school loans. If you can afford to come to Lakes, the pay off down the road is pretty good. At my age I could easily make 1mil more in my life time by coming here, rather than going to a regional where the upgrade is slower. The quality of life isn't too bad here either, as seniority builds quickly...I never really planned on coming to Lakes, but after two and a half years of instructing, they were the first and only airline to interview and hire me with such low multi time. I had a friend at Lakes who gave me the full story about working here, and I decided to give it a shot. I'm happy with my choice to come here, but it is not for every body. If I had loans to pay I would not be here, that is for sure. I made more flight instructing at American Flyers than I do here, but Lakes basically paid for my multi time, and hopefully soon will pay me for some multi TPIC time. I'm pretty sure I will never have any more fun flying than I am now hand flying the 1900. In the 5 months I've been here I've had to shoot 2 NDB approaches to minimums, not many people can say that these days. But as much fun as I am having, my number one goal with coming to lakes was to get in and get out as quickly as possible.
 
Capt737 said:
I don't have any school loans to pay, no wife, no kids, and saved up money by living at home with my folks when I was a CFI. Now I'm living just fine in Aurora, single bed room apartment, Iphone 4, even have steak every now and again. HAHA. I'm not much worse off than any other pilot at a better paying regional who has to pay off their school loans. If you can afford to come to Lakes, the pay off down the road is pretty good. At my age I could easily make 1mil more in my life time by coming here, rather than going to a regional where the upgrade is slower. The quality of life isn't too bad here either, as seniority builds quickly...I never really planned on coming to Lakes, but after two and a half years of instructing, they were the first and only airline to interview and hire me with such low multi time. I had a friend at Lakes who gave me the full story about working here, and I decided to give it a shot. I'm happy with my choice to come here, but it is not for every body. If I had loans to pay I would not be here, that is for sure. I made more flight instructing at American Flyers than I do here, but Lakes basically paid for my multi time, and hopefully soon will pay me for some multi TPIC time. I'm pretty sure I will never have any more fun flying than I am now hand flying the 1900. In the 5 months I've been here I've had to shoot 2 NDB approaches to minimums, not many people can say that these days. But as much fun as I am having, my number one goal with coming to lakes was to get in and get out as quickly as possible.
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This was a well-reasoned response that did not contain vitriol or animous. It laid out the reasons why you went to GL, how you are surviving, a tangible financial reason for going (more career earnings because of a longer major-airline career - a reasonable bet to make), and you talked about the quality of the flying you are doing and why you think it is fun. Overall this was a post that reeked of positive feeling, was not angry or mean, and wasn't defensive.

Short take on this: You don't belong here.
 
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