Parabellum
New Member
Hello everyone. This is probably the first time I've posted in months or so, but I've really been inactive in terms of anything related to flying whatsoever. I haven't even been in the air since last October, not because I've been unable to fly but because for some reason, I just haven't felt like it. And I think it may largely be due to the fact that I'm just not sure that flying professionally sounds like such a great idea to me anymore.
For one thing, there's no good place close by to fly that isn't very high dollar. The hourly rental rates of aircraft just keep going up, and up, and up and I don't see where they're going to stop. Where I used to fly, it now costs $90/hr for an older model 172. It wasn't that long ago when it was only $70/hr but now that's what renting a 152 costs. And with only about 170 hours total time, I just can't seem to justify spending god knows how much more time and $$$ to get a commercial certificate, and from then on work for poverty level wages for 10-15 years before finally being paid a livable salary. Then you have management always trying to cut your pay even further and screw you over however they can. If they could, they'd get rid of you completely because supposedly all that pilots have to do is let their computers fly the airplanes with a few pushes of a button, right? </sarcasm>
Then there's the whole issue of being gone from home all the time. Obviously being as young as I am I don't have to worry about supporting a family right now, but in the future I very well might have to. Being a stranger to my own family just kind of sounds, well, strange.
More than anything though, it just seems like whenever I take something I enjoy doing and turn it into a job, I lose the love for it that I once had. In fact, I think that's starting to happen already.
Is it possible that maybe I'm just focusing a little too much on the negatives here? I mean, who knows, I guess its possible that I could eventually regain the momentum I once had not too long ago. But, what if not? Well, all I know is that desk jobs typically treat people much more like a human being.
For one thing, there's no good place close by to fly that isn't very high dollar. The hourly rental rates of aircraft just keep going up, and up, and up and I don't see where they're going to stop. Where I used to fly, it now costs $90/hr for an older model 172. It wasn't that long ago when it was only $70/hr but now that's what renting a 152 costs. And with only about 170 hours total time, I just can't seem to justify spending god knows how much more time and $$$ to get a commercial certificate, and from then on work for poverty level wages for 10-15 years before finally being paid a livable salary. Then you have management always trying to cut your pay even further and screw you over however they can. If they could, they'd get rid of you completely because supposedly all that pilots have to do is let their computers fly the airplanes with a few pushes of a button, right? </sarcasm>
Then there's the whole issue of being gone from home all the time. Obviously being as young as I am I don't have to worry about supporting a family right now, but in the future I very well might have to. Being a stranger to my own family just kind of sounds, well, strange.
More than anything though, it just seems like whenever I take something I enjoy doing and turn it into a job, I lose the love for it that I once had. In fact, I think that's starting to happen already.
Is it possible that maybe I'm just focusing a little too much on the negatives here? I mean, who knows, I guess its possible that I could eventually regain the momentum I once had not too long ago. But, what if not? Well, all I know is that desk jobs typically treat people much more like a human being.