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Pay/QOL/domiciles?

The first job pays good, after that, the pay starts to drop dramatically. QOL is good if you don't mind living in the Chicken but, but you'll probably end up eventually swimming with the fishes. Domiciles are usually in the remote regions of Mexico.
 
The first job pays good, after that, the pay starts to drop dramatically. QOL is good if you don't mind living in the Chicken but, but you'll probably end up eventually swimming with the fishes. Domiciles are usually in the remote regions of Mexico.
What happens if I want to cancel for weather? Am I just digging my grave at that point?
 
To all the snide comments, I'd imagine that other than the risk of being imprisoned, this is probably a "relatively safe" place to work in most parts of the operation. Realistically, the airplanes are probably really nice if they're flying across the border, because you wouldn't want to draw attention to yourself if you were moving a bunch of drugs across the border. Everything probably has the external appearance of being incredibly legit, smugglers aren't Han Solo (successful ones anyway) the good ones are the ones you don't even realize are smugglers. In fact, I'd bet serious money, that most of the crews involved in the drug trade have no idea they're even involved:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2010/dec/16/us-pilots-face-more-jail-in-dominican-republic/

I'd imagine that there are a bunch of charter companies that periodically have "shipments" moved under inspection panels, etc. If you get too greedy you'd do something stupid and not be able to use that avenue any more, so it'd have to be seamless. Frankly, I'd be cautious pretty much any time you left the airplane unattended and were planning on making a northbound border crossing.
 
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