Matt777
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Yeah I definitely understand that- and I hope I was clear that I wasn't ripping on anyone... I think for me it is not JUST the principle of it (not being paid in training & the $16), but I just don't want to commute and be as miserable as my former coworker was who was commuting from Seattle and did lose his highschool-long GF because he was never home.
So the commuting is a HUGE thing to me, when I pair it with teh $16/hour.
The real question is how quickly do you upgrade to captain pay? Then that $16 is really a temporary non-issue if it only takes 6 months... and considering the Turbine PIC it quickly leads you to... not so bad.
If I was in your position you describe I think I would move to Denver to eliminate what is the worst part to me - commuting- and suck it up and get on the way to the PIC turbine even though it paid nothing on the way there.
I think the main reason I posted is because you can make more than double great lakes pay with a full-time salaried CFI position.
If you get less than $10,000 a year on unemployment then the sacrifice would make sense to me, but for $13,000.... here I go again about the principle of the thing again!
I was truly, genuinely, and sincerly curious, in a non-judgemental way, why people were hoping to get hired there- and you answered my question totally and completely, so thank you for responding!
And, just so you know, I can't hold my nose high!
I still live in my parent's house, I've been instructing for 2.5 years at a great place that DID offer a few $30,000 salaried positions, which the former manager was able to create SPECIFICALLY for me 6 months after I told him I was gonna have to go to Lakes in order to pay my student loan payment... I didn't take a position because I had an interview date for Horizon and I didn't want to take it and then quit a couple weeks later (this was April of last year a couple months before Alaska Air Group reported a $32 million loss and scheduled 69 furloughs for November... so it didn't actually matter that, even though I was one of only two to get to the sim, I blew it because I was so busy instructing that I didn't have time to hit the sim- and also couldn't fall asleep in the hotel bed the night before the interview. Now those salaried CFI positions are gone (try being an hourly CFI in the winter in Seattle). (How was that for a run-on sentence?) And my loan payment was due on the 15th.
So I can't hold my head to darn high!!!
Even more of a bummer was that the Horizon people thought I was such a good fit for Horizon they told me that, even though their rules say you can't normally reapply for 6 months, they wanted me to reapply in 3 and to not apply to anywhere else (they are VERY nice people there too)!
As I was anxiously counting down those 3 months... with 3 weeks left to go... the $32 million first quarter losses were announced and then the furloughing for November was announced. So I would have been furloughed anyway- like my four former co-workers (two of which are co-workers again).
So I think that should thoroughly establish that I don't think I'm superior to anything, except financially slightly superior to a homeless person- but not by much in the winter!
I realize I had not read about or really been aware of the extent of the furloughs nationwide because I was busy thinking about how Alaska Air Group had the most furloughs. It sounds like everyone else caught up while I haven't been paying attention or reading this site!
Where did you get furloughed from (if you want to answer)?
I do hope you get the call.
So now I'm gonna go eat some of my mom's food and then play my guitar while I wait for my international student (thank GOD for him!) to get his commercial written done!
Good luck and thanks for answering so politely!!
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