Colgan Interview Questions

Pilots are blue collar labor.

Pilots have a union, they work for an hourly wage and negotiate a contract for that hourly wage. How many white collar professions are unionized? Pilots also strike. How many white collar types go on strike when their hourly wage is in jeopardy?

It is a technical skill, just like any other equipment/machine operator. You don't need a degree or any formal education to qualify to fly an airplane. It is simply skilled labor.

Your socioeconomic collar has absolutely nothing to do with the size of your paycheck.

And...you would be surprised at what regional and district managers of these 7-11's pull down.
 
FlyingNole said:
By who? Find me a blue collar worker that has the opportunity to make over 80K a year.
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Any UAW electrician, pipefitter, or skilled laborer. Granted they work 50+ hours a week but they easily can make $80K a year working in the factory. Granted there are fewer today making that much than 5 or 10 years ago but they definately make more cash than most people would ever imagine.
 
bumblebee said:
Plumber, backhoe operator, Contractor, Electrician, and the beat goes on . . .
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A contractor is NOT blue collar....Maybe a crappy one. And find me a plumber/electrician that makes 80K that doesnt own a multi-employee company or something to that affect.
 
FlyingNole said:
A contractor is NOT blue collar....Maybe a crappy one. And find me a plumber/electrician that makes 80K that doesnt own a multi-employee company or something to that affect.
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A general contractor is certainly blue collar, maybe the CEO of a very large contractor company is white collar, but even then you will typically find that the CEO's of the larger contractor companies started out as just general contractors and framers.

an electrician makes well over 30/hour after he passes all of his test and goes through his journeymen phase. And that is working for someone not owning the company, the same applies to plumbers, those are two GREAT paying jobs and will always be in high demand.
 
My neighbor Joe said that even though he wasn't a white collar executive (being a skilled Flight Engineer and First Officer with over 15000 hours in the 727 for Pan AM) that his job was certainly better than working for a living. (crawling through attics, dusty backhoe, we all know what kind of ____ a plumber deals with . . . ;)
 
FlyingNole said:
A contractor is NOT blue collar....Maybe a crappy one. And find me a plumber/electrician that makes 80K that doesnt own a multi-employee company or something to that affect.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but a General Contractor is as blue collar as they come. I have a brother who is a GC and he'll tell you his collar is as blue as they come.
 
FlyingNole said:
Well not the ones I know...In fact one is neighbors with Dan Marino....
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Technically speaking, it is still a blue collar profession regardless of how much one may make.
 
FlyingNole said:
Ok, everyone makes the "so and so makes more than an airline pilot his first year." That may be the case, but a 7-11 manager will never have the days off, bennies, and chance to make good money in his "career" at 7-11
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Yeah, a 7-11 manager enjoys full medical, dental, and insurance, paid vacation and sick days, salary with bonus incentives, and oh yeah.. a stable job. You are also able to upgrade to a district manager which increases salary, gets you a company car, and offers tuition reimbursement. Do any airlines do that for their pilots? I dont think so.

Oh yeah, 7-11 also requires a bachelor degree as well to be a manager.
 
BaylorPilot said:
So your saying that I cant wear my green suit and my yellow tie? Looks like i might have to be making a trip to wall mart for a new one.
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Avoid Wal-Mart. You want somthing decently tailored. It by not means has to be Gucci, Armani or D&G, but Wal Mart is a no-no. Here is a decnetly priced one that may well be worth the money. A man should always own a good suit.

http://www.yoox.com/item.asp?rr=1&cod10=490021992C&areaid=8

If that is too high a price, then at least stick to your mall retailers. Sam Walton is to be avoided. Maybe that is just me. I refuse to wear clothes bought at Wal-Mart. I would rather pay good money for designer clothes than somthing by Sam Walton. Walton's stuff never walked the runways of Milan or New York. :sarcasm: And it is low quality and does not fit well, which looks bad in an interview. When you are a kid, that is fine. But for an interview a suit should fit well, the shirt sleeves extending about half an inch out of the sleeve of the jackt, and fitting well in the shoulders. And get a good pair of shoes. Shoes complete the ensemble. Like Doug says, they will not know if you are wearing Armani or not. But they may look negatively upon a man who does not have proper fitting clothes.
 
why must people share their actual salaries in which airline they fly for. that will only bring our reputation down. why not keep and maintain the old prestigous perception of an airline pilot.
 
Because its not true. Maybe if the public knows what crap wages are paid, they would think twice about flying for good. After all, who wants a low-salary pilot at the wheel. I think the public would like to see highly trained and PAID pilots at the controls.
 
meritflyer said:
Because its not true. Maybe if the public knows what crap wages are paid, they would think twice about flying for good. After all, who wants a low-salary pilot at the wheel. I think the public would like to see highly trained and PAID pilots at the controls.
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It's nice to think that, but it's not true. In fact if the airline industry got together and told the public that if they could cut their pilot's salaries by just $0.50 an hour they could save $5 on the price of a ticket the uproar to go ahead and do it would be deafening.....
 
BrettInLJ said:
Yep, you need to wear a suit. But, btw, pilots are looked at as blue collar workers believe it or not.
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Agreed, pilots are blue collar. Also you can make a lot more a lot faster being blue collar and halfway smart at Boeing, Intel, Crab Fisherman. Only you dont get to fly and you dont get to wear a monkey suit.
 
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