GnW
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Thoughts? It seems like a lot of you OTS guys are completely PSYCHED about the "great pay" you'll be making as a controller (a Center?! What's THAT MEAN???? durrrr...:drool.
I guess I'm just as guilty as the rest of you for taking a slot... but with 100 grand in student loans and an aviation background (see:useless), I don't have much of a choice. I went into this (started) prior to the IWRs and a lot of the OTS guys don't seem to mind much about the pay/draconian rules/etc... in fact, they don't even seem to know that the pay used to even be decent.
I know I'm going to get 3 pages of people saying "this isn't a job you do for the pay"
but GUESS WHAT?! It's a JOB. It's the single most important issue. Yeah, it takes some passion. But talking to airplanes doesn't pay the mortgage bill unless you get paid for it. Who knows... maybe this will be a work-release gig soon... but until then...
It seems to me that with this influx of poor, ignorant souls into the profession, the FAA has solidified its authority (as the new guys simply dont know what they could have had) and there will NOT be a return to the old pay level. Ever. It was a pretty genius strategy on the FAA's part.
I guess I'm just as guilty as the rest of you for taking a slot... but with 100 grand in student loans and an aviation background (see:useless), I don't have much of a choice. I went into this (started) prior to the IWRs and a lot of the OTS guys don't seem to mind much about the pay/draconian rules/etc... in fact, they don't even seem to know that the pay used to even be decent.
I know I'm going to get 3 pages of people saying "this isn't a job you do for the pay"
but GUESS WHAT?! It's a JOB. It's the single most important issue. Yeah, it takes some passion. But talking to airplanes doesn't pay the mortgage bill unless you get paid for it. Who knows... maybe this will be a work-release gig soon... but until then...
It seems to me that with this influx of poor, ignorant souls into the profession, the FAA has solidified its authority (as the new guys simply dont know what they could have had) and there will NOT be a return to the old pay level. Ever. It was a pretty genius strategy on the FAA's part.