You seem to be taking the professional issues of maintaining at or above a standard of pay for a daily rate via contract for an aircraft needing pilot services pretty dang personal.
Yes, I do, the fact that jobs like these are filled after two days indicates a lot of very desperate people on the market, whereas, I did not consider myself desperate, or even qualified enough to consider such employment. Someone did. So much for your "professional wage" game plan. You are not insulting me by calling me clueless. I wish I did not know about this ridicule our pilots are subjecting themselves to everyday.
We welcome new job postings, but when they are this ridiculous . . . do you really expect people who consider themselves professionals to be all over this like white on rice? Really?
There are those who read a post, recognize my position, and there are those not doing so.
Yeah, some poor slum who needs a job will eat this one up. But in doing such he/she is ignoring that some pretty hard working folks in the contract corporate world try to maintain a standard for pay.
Hence my above statements, which you have obviously not read.
I would have expected you to change your tune already regarding this, but clearly it is either ignorance or just an acceptance that you approve of such behavior from contract hiring departments.
The fact that I speak my mind in regards to the current hiring practices say's nothing about my approval or ignorance for them. If anything, you can blame me for being sarcastic about very desperate people selling this profession for the lowest bid. Do not undermine my integrity because the facts of this state of affairs does not give you a fuzzy warm feeling of job security. Our profession (500 hours or 5000 hours doesn't matter anymore!) is being sold for peanuts. AND WE ARE WATCHING IT! So keep beating up the guy that screams your message using a different tone, or go find the ding dongs that ride this profession into the fu&#%@!( ground.
So. . .hopefully you'll come to your senses and see that there is "something behind" all of the hot steam. Now as far as you agree or disagree with it. . .that's for you to decide, and be happy the interweb doesn't blaster your face and real name across it anytime you say something.
I have long known that the pilot community is one of the harshest and most dangerous group of people. I know for a fact that other pilots dislike my efforts to make them aware of their shortcomings when it comes to looking out for each other. Lawyers do it, Doctors do it, Reporters do it, but Pilots won't. You call for my name being disclosed because you feel threatened in your ignorance. You are happy as long as your paycheck is nice and fat. 90% of people are like that. As long as the trouble stay's out of their backyard, they don't give a rats ass.
I fear for the corporate contract guys if you are one of the individuals who fail to realize the impacts these types of operations have on the contract pilot's ability to make a standard livable wage.
Me too, I just dare to fear for a lot more than just the corporate guys being outsold. We have pilots running for cover left and right. Extremely smart, dedicated honest good people, who can no longer afford to fly for peanuts. Where do they go? China. India. Dubai.
It does not take an ATP and 8000 hours to figure out how this market works. I posted the job in good intent, not caring the least bit about what a Challenger Captain makes. The FO makes as much as a guy flying sightseeing flights in a 172. Do you think I'm stupid, and don't know that?
Try again.
I apologize to the others if I appeared overly offended by this. I just wish some of the posters would take it as what it was. One available job. I knew it would be filled in hours and unless we (as in group, people, community) change our ways, it will always be like this. No sense bitching about how little this job pays if we are lacking the grassroots efforts it takes to change peoples perception. I realize that I am asking for the impossible, now, years after the crisis is started.
Edit*: Thanks for the advise about not taking jobs which don't pay well. That means if you are starting out in this career (!) you decline 99.9% of the jobs that get you the necessary exposure to flying, to obtain more gainful employment down the road. All the while watching the kids from the pilot mills taking peanut jobs. At least
they fly? In our current market you have to sell out cheap in order to even get considered.
