Yeah, they’ll take high-time Navy SH-60s with over 16-18,000hrs on the airframe that the Navy has determined are no longer economically viable to repair, refurbish them, paint them Coast Guard Orange and white, and put them back into service. They literally run the entire service on a shoestring budget that is criminal for what they do…
Flying career advice for my son
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Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Matt Dinniman? Ok, maybe not the perfect example.
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
I need to look into that, I’m curious.
I was thinking of their pilots. I have a buddy that has a CG son that went through flight training a few years ago. Other than that, I haven’t met a CG pilot that wasn’t prior service, IST, or DC.
Hmm…. I think I might just pursue a Part 107 UAS certificate. I was outside yesterday and heard this drone fly overhead. It’s an Amazon drone and it just dropped a package in my neighbors yard. I go researching and I can get up to 5lb Amazon package dropped off at my house if I want to. Order some inkjet printer ink and it’s delivered in 30 minutes by drone.
Maybe that’ll be my retirement gig.
Amazon Flight monitor or ground handler…
I’m so done burning 270,000lbs of jet A to move 120,000lbs of batteries, flowers, frozen salmon, Bugattis and Ferraris
I wonder how long it will be before people start intercepting these delivery drones to steal the 5lb package…
Maybe that’ll be my retirement gig.
Amazon Flight monitor or ground handler…
I’m so done burning 270,000lbs of jet A to move 120,000lbs of batteries, flowers, frozen salmon, Bugattis and Ferraris
I wonder how long it will be before people start intercepting these delivery drones to steal the 5lb package…
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
This report was from almost 6 years ago, but Zipline is still going strong.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjjbeltn4Fo
Yeah Amazon is a little more limited. You have to be within 8 miles of the Amazon distribution center that handles drones. I wonder if they’re going to scale that up so that the distribution center serves a larger area?
As I drove by the distribution center there were 3 drones that launched from the distribution center while I was waiting at the traffic light.
As I drove by the distribution center there were 3 drones that launched from the distribution center while I was waiting at the traffic light.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
This will be my retirement gig....."drone fighter pilot" for hire. $100 per shoot down
OzoneScrubber
Well-Known Member
Mr. Gloverman: when did you stop feeling that the professional pilot juice wasn’t worth the squeeze?
Because I’ve been hearing that noise since the 1980s when I was a student at a prestigious puppy mill.
/not that one
//not that one either
Part two: What IS good career advice for a young person? What would you advise?
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
Pursue a meaningful trade other than aviation. Then, see if an aviation career can be pursued concurrently or serially.
Beaker
Well-Known Member
I think those of us who have burned out in a profession need to be careful when giving advice to the next generation. I got burned out in aerospace engineering, but I still encourage young people to explore their interest in the field and help connect them with opportunities when I can. My burn out was some mixture of a "me" problem and the normal life cycle of a motivated individual in corporate America. Telling a young person not to pursue it because I got burned out would feel akin to an elderly person telling me not to get old because they got cancer. Yes, it sucks. It is also just part of the journey, to some extent, and there are burned out people from every single profession. I think the best we can do is be honest about pros and cons, as objectively as we can, while avoiding blanket do or don't statements.
Regarding humans flying airplanes, I agree it's hard to picture two pilots per airliner 50 years from now. Clearly things move towards more and more automation. In this age of AI, it is also hard to picture what any traditionally high-paying occupation will look like 50 years from now. The bots seem to have everything in their targets. They are even solving exceptionally hard math problems (see Millennium Prize) So, if you are passionate about flying airplanes in the traditional sense, I say do it NOW, while it's still on the menu, and enjoy the ride. But don't be naive. Be frugal and acknowledge that you will have to reinvent yourself in the future. That's advice that holds for young people entering most professions today, not just aviation.
Best of luck to the OP's son as he sorts things out. "Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind" - Dr. Seuss
Regarding humans flying airplanes, I agree it's hard to picture two pilots per airliner 50 years from now. Clearly things move towards more and more automation. In this age of AI, it is also hard to picture what any traditionally high-paying occupation will look like 50 years from now. The bots seem to have everything in their targets. They are even solving exceptionally hard math problems (see Millennium Prize) So, if you are passionate about flying airplanes in the traditional sense, I say do it NOW, while it's still on the menu, and enjoy the ride. But don't be naive. Be frugal and acknowledge that you will have to reinvent yourself in the future. That's advice that holds for young people entering most professions today, not just aviation.
Best of luck to the OP's son as he sorts things out. "Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind" - Dr. Seuss
drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
Marry someone rich.
What do you consider a meaningful trade?
DE727UPS
Well-Known Member
Construction, handyman stuff, Plumber, Electrician, ect. I know a kid who's on the Plumber track. Takes four years to get licensed but it's one day a week academic and the rest apprentice. If the kid was into flying he'd have time to dabble in that and once he's licensed he'd make good money and be able to fly as a side gig.
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
I consider a trade to be meaningful if it has inelastic demand and income satisfies the financial goals of the individual.
One measure of this is the ability to make lateral moves without penalty.
This isn’t bad advice but I feel like people need to be realistic. Unless you plan to turn it into a successful business you can run from the office, a lot of those trades are going to absolutely destroy your body in the long term. I know aviation has its own health pitfalls but they usually don’t hold a candle to what construction or plumbing do to someone, especially if you do the bare minimum to take care of yourself.
If you’re honest about the sacrifices, time, and effort I don’t see why it can’t be recommended. Granted my situation is the result of hard work but mostly an extreme about of luck and timing, where else is someone going to make 6 figures and have between 12 to 21 days off per month? Often with a direct contribution to their retirement if they’re lucky enough to get to a major. I’m not super current on how things are for the younger generation, but it seems like the job market is bleak, to say the least.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
This is true for any job. Wasting away in some cubical farm with toxic personalities filling out TPS reports with two cover sheets is just as bad, just not as much sun. Diets aren’t that great either. You don’t see too many svelte people on the third floor accounts receivable of Dewey, Cheatim and Howe.
Work is for suckers. That’s why they have to pay us to do it.
That's probably more of a reflection of American culture than it is the job. Although meal prepping or cooking healthy stuff at home to bring in is easier said than done after fighting rush hour traffic and enjoying your 3 hours of free time you have every night befoore you go to bed and do it all again tomorrow, 5 days week. Same for working out, a motivated pilot going to the gym on even half their layovers is probably doing better than the average cubicle dweller.
I do love explaining the concept of bid avoid to people who don't work in this industry though. "Imagine if you could tell your boss not to let Bob show his face near your cubicle and they just said "Ok, you got it."
JDean3204
Well-Known Member
Reading this from my hotel room in HNL, the fourth time I’ve been here this month. Yeah, I’d recommend this career, with the caveat that the young person actually likes airplanes and doesn’t just want to do it for the money because the gram showed them “a line pilots paycheck”.
Trades jobs were for people that couldn’t hack it in school when I was young, not sure if that stigma has changed or not. I think if you’re good with your hands and don’t mind a little hard work that’s a great option, but the physical toll it takes on your body will catch up to you at some point, that’s a certainty.
Trades jobs were for people that couldn’t hack it in school when I was young, not sure if that stigma has changed or not. I think if you’re good with your hands and don’t mind a little hard work that’s a great option, but the physical toll it takes on your body will catch up to you at some point, that’s a certainty.