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Pilot86

Pilot86

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Hi all, id like to obtain a flying career but i dont have a backup plan as in college degree. I have a bachelors in liberal arts which isnt anything but I dont see any foreseeable future of loosing my medical, and i really want to pursue it. Im currently 33, just curious as to your opinion of not having a backup to making my living as a pilot.

Thanks!
 
What exactly is your degree in, and what kind of job/work do you do now? Couldn't you just do what you do now in case things don't work out?
 
Pilot86 said:
Hi all, id like to obtain a flying career but i dont have a backup plan as in college degree. I have a bachelors in liberal arts which isnt anything but I dont see any foreseeable future of loosing my medical, and i really want to pursue it. Im currently 33, just curious as to your opinion of not having a backup to making my living as a pilot.

Thanks!
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Send it.
 
Pilot86 said:
Hi all, id like to obtain a flying career but i dont have a backup plan as in college degree. I have a bachelors in liberal arts which isnt anything but I dont see any foreseeable future of loosing my medical, and i really want to pursue it. Im currently 33, just curious as to your opinion of not having a backup to making my living as a pilot.

Thanks!
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If you also steal hotel pens you’re identical to about 90% of us. See ya on the line homie!
 
This is what LTD (as a separate occupation, with buy up and with the definition being unable to hold a medical) is for, among other things.
 
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Pilot86 said:
Hi all, id like to obtain a flying career but i dont have a backup plan as in college degree. I have a bachelors in liberal arts which isnt anything but I dont see any foreseeable future of loosing my medical, and i really want to pursue it. Im currently 33, just curious as to your opinion of not having a backup to making my living as a pilot.

Thanks!
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There are a lot of questions like how to finance your flying while you secure your ratings. How willing you are to move somewhere new to advance your flying career, to spend large portions of your year on the road and if your significant other and children would be supportive if you have them are big questions and it's better to figure that out now before you have even more debt to your name and less of your earning years to pay down what debt you have or start a nest egg.

If your current job supports you enough to spend the money building time that's great, but your first year of flight instructing or building time flying survey, working a drop zone or sitting SIC may not pay terribly much so you need to be prepared for that. Sometimes a lot of commercial pilots try finding nearby gigs and rack up less hours as a result and that may be worth it, but wages and opportunities go up noticeably when you have 1000 hours, 135 mins then 121 mins. You can start finding commutable jobs with as little as 500 hours and much better ones with as little as 1000 hours, but you should be ready to accept some hardship for a year or two once you get your ratings as it's not all roses in spite of how it might seem.
 
Type of degree doesn’t matter, as long as it’s four years and from an accredited school. A lot of pilots don’t have an aviation degree. After awhile even an aviation degree doesn’t seem relevant, I got mine back when gps was occasionally referenced as some sort of space age futuristic thing the military might have, now most pilots can’t drive to the airport without it.
 
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COUGH COUGH klepto COUGH
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As for my pens, I was apparently off the hook: A marketing manager explained that branded biros are treated as an overhead, since guests are expected to take them, turning the pens into free advertising. It’s much the same when it comes to umbrellas at luxury hotels, he continued. They’re tacitly expected to remain unreturned (notice how they rarely have a price tag on them, compared with the robes dangling nearby).
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Pens are up for grabs, a lot of other stuff not so much.

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A Five-Finger Guide to Stealing From Hotels

Have you ever (ahem) “accidentally” taken anything from a hotel? Bet you never tried to fit an entire china set under your coat.
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Pilot86 said:
Hi all, id like to obtain a flying career but i dont have a backup plan as in college degree. I have a bachelors in liberal arts which isnt anything but I dont see any foreseeable future of loosing my medical, and i really want to pursue it. Im currently 33, just curious as to your opinion of not having a backup to making my living as a pilot.

Thanks!
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Bachelors is all you need, most degrees as backups probably aren’t that useful if you don’t have any experience to go with it. Also nice cub.
 
You got the 4 year done. Check. Go try flying. Back up plan? Go to a coding bootcamp, or write a check for $3000 and get a CDL.. pays same as first year regional. Problem solved.
 
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