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  1. drunkenbeagle

    FIRC, Ground Instructor, Gold Seal, SOE Removal, or Flight Instructor Renewal?

    Would have been great for me 6 months ago!
  2. drunkenbeagle

    Thoughts and opinions on career change pilots?

    Or Sturgeon's Law, "ninety percent of everything is crap."
  3. drunkenbeagle

    Considering leaving the profession for good, could use advice

    Overtime pay? What's that?
  4. drunkenbeagle

    Considering leaving the profession for good, could use advice

    Oddly, I don't know that I've come across a lot of lying in the tech interview world. Certainly not something we are trained to look for.
  5. drunkenbeagle

    Considering leaving the profession for good, could use advice

    Corporate America interviews, not aviation. But my point was that I see people screw up what should be easy questions often. I'll assume pilots aren't much different. At least from my perspective, the STAR format questions aren't meant to be trick questions. But the applicants can turn them...
  6. drunkenbeagle

    Considering leaving the profession for good, could use advice

    The world needs more than two of them right now.
  7. drunkenbeagle

    Considering leaving the profession for good, could use advice

    As someone who has done the interviewing, this is not true. I'm not interviewing who you are. Or what you look like, or what pizza you like. I ask questions relevant to the job role. Mostly situation based ones, taking notes on what you did and why. My company has some things they care...
  8. drunkenbeagle

    Thoughts and opinions on career change pilots?

    The last time someone said that to me, I asked if I could leave wherever I was supposed to be 5 minutes early for now on to be able to do so. In hindsight, it was not the best thing to say. Anyway, always struck me as a bad way to say that punctuality is important. Or a mild form of...
  9. drunkenbeagle

    Thoughts and opinions on career change pilots?

    On the other side of the coin, they tend to own some pretty nice airplanes and boats.
  10. drunkenbeagle

    Thoughts and opinions on career change pilots?

    I guess a more basic question, how are we defining a "career changer?" Someone that has been working in GA for 25 years that takes a part 121 job? Someone that retires from military flying and does the same? Someone that only started flying at 45? My personal definition of career...
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