Re: If you get the job...
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I ended up interviewing as a crew "tracker" which "tracks crews" and helps with the crew scheduler hand in hand...my shift would start at 0430 and end at 1330!!! it pays 10 dollars an hour...and is VERY STRESSFUL from what I saw in the dispatch area...would any of you do this for 10 an hour??? if you were a 20 year old Private Pilot?
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I'm a 21 year old CFII, who instructs whenever I'm not working my 12 HOUR shift in a dispatch department. My hours are 7pm to 7am, 4 days a week...and I instruct about 5 hours a day when I'm "off shift". I love my "extra dispatch job" because I am making some awesome contacts, opening doors that have already gotten me in some exciting cockpits, and (due to the fact that it is day time on the other side of the world when I'm working), I get to talk to the embassys in tons of Mid-East, European, and African countries and get the "routine" phone patches from crews at FL350 over Turkey or some other cool place. Needless to say, I'm having a great time. Also, I believe what I am learning is extremely valuable (hopefully my new found experience with NAT tracks, overflight permits, part 121 regs, crew duty time and rest regs, and DC10 figures will prove a handy feather in my cap when I'm interviewing for a "real" pilot job in the near future).
So, I guess by all my rambling, my advice to you is...take the job (if you are offered it), and run with every opportunity you get. A foot in the door is priceless and the knowledge you will pick up from another view in aviation could prove to be that step ahead of the pack when interviewing for the cockpit. Just make sure to keep flying and building time, it is a lot of work; but us early 20yr olds can still fit in a good party at least one night a week
. Good luck, and let us know how it turns out!!!