Still Motivated?
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killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
Don't know. Don't care right now. I'm a long way from ever being qualified for any job as a pilot. I'm focusing on the task at hand - learning to fly safely, knowledgeably, making good decisions. Next step will be instrument training. That's as far forward as I want to look right now.
Holocene
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Same here.
DenverPilot8
Well-Known Member
Yeah I'm taking my instrument checkride next week. I guess I'll just take my sweet time through Commercial Multi. Still got a regional sales job right now that lets me work from home. I was going to make the jump to ATP in march but decided not to go. All I can say is THANK GOD. I would be finishing my ratings right about now with 265 hours and NO job prospects.
troopernflight
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I'm glad I'm in the early stages of my training during a downturn. It will come back, and hopefully that time will be when I am marketable. But I'm not going to worry about it. I've got a job that I enjoy right now. If I need to wait a few years to find a flying job, then so be it. I can just instruct on the side and earn some gravy. I love flying, and I will be content staying in a single-engine trainer for as long as I need to. I'd rather get in when the industry in coming back, and keep my job. Otherwise, I might be rushing to get my times when the industry is good, and get furloughed soon after being hired.
HeyEng
Well-Known Member
Positivity my friend. Yeah, getting that "perfect gig" could be a few years off and things just might get worse than they are right now but the STRONG will survive.
Perhaps it's about time to shed some of the "SJS" kids anyway.
Enjoy the training and flying around the patch...
Perhaps it's about time to shed some of the "SJS" kids anyway.
Enjoy the training and flying around the patch...
bdhill1979
Gone West
That is the first time I have ever seen "actuary" and "Hooker" in the same paragraph. Well played sir.
frequentflya
New Member
If your not having fun taking flight lessons you might want to rethink all of it. Just do whatever makes you happy. Like me for instance, I just got my instrument and should be starting on my commercial, but no I decided to learn to fly float planes instead.
To Quote Sinatra
"I did it my way"
To Quote Sinatra
"I did it my way"
bdhill1979
Gone West
you know though I have seen a lot of people panicking lately. Other instructors, students that I have had; the business takes a down turn and its time to hide the razor blades.
I'm happy as a flight instructor. I genuinely enjoy it.
The pay sucks, the schedule is always fluctuating, it is constant stress and complications, and if I do my job right and my student passes their checkride I am out of a student (read as customer).
But I dig it. I like what I do and for the most part the people around me. If I didn't like this job I would have quit already.
That's all the motivation I need.
I'm happy as a flight instructor. I genuinely enjoy it.
The pay sucks, the schedule is always fluctuating, it is constant stress and complications, and if I do my job right and my student passes their checkride I am out of a student (read as customer).
But I dig it. I like what I do and for the most part the people around me. If I didn't like this job I would have quit already.
That's all the motivation I need.
bdhill1979
Gone West
No kiddingIf I had a dollar for every student pilot that told me that my job sucks and I should hate it, I'd be a trillionaire!
"So you have to be at the airport all day? That sucks....well I won't have to instruct long, I have an uncle at UPS and he said......"
SoCalAprch
Well-Known Member
Thats when you tell the punk that UPS has a nepotism clause and he won't be getting hired there
Wolfy
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I really appreciate that. I'm not worried for a few reasons. First, I'm not really headed for the airlines any more. I'm not shutting it out completely, but corporate is treating me well. Second, there is always someone somewhere looking for a pilot and I see no reason that pilot can't be me.
I remember in February of 2002 when I took my first flight lesson at 13. My instructor had been furloughed by United. She told me there was nobody getting hired at the airlines and people losing their jobs, but by the time I actually had my license everything would be fine. She had the foresight to see how cyclical it all is.
ladder360
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That's what I'm talking about!!! Good stuff there. Contributing to the spirit of the site. The REAL good, bad and ugly.
Italianaviator
Well-Known Member
You say that now but once you have 1000+ single time, i'm quite sure you will want to upgrade or expericence something new, a little faster more equipment, more technically advanced, something.
Matt13C
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I find it easiest to only worry about what I can control. It is not just those of us determined to have a flying career who are dealing with uncertain times, it's all professions. I say do what makes you happy.
To me, I am happy in the air. It does not matter if it is in a C172 or a GV, I just love flying. I can see myself being a lifetime CFI and I can just as easily see myself flying corporate. To do that I need to earn my ratings, so that is what I am doing. I get all the motivation I need every time I go to the airport.
To me, I am happy in the air. It does not matter if it is in a C172 or a GV, I just love flying. I can see myself being a lifetime CFI and I can just as easily see myself flying corporate. To do that I need to earn my ratings, so that is what I am doing. I get all the motivation I need every time I go to the airport.
I'm not at the point where I don't enjoy flying per se, but I do get frustrated when flying to the point where it is more work than recreation. Is this just a normal feeling during training?
Grabo172
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It is alot of work, no doubt...
If you get to the point where you are frustrated and not enjoying it, ask your instructor to take you out on just a fun flight, go to another interesting airport and get some lunch, find a nice grass strip and practice soft fields on a real soft field, just something to break the grind....
You'll probably remember what all the hard work is for!
If you get to the point where you are frustrated and not enjoying it, ask your instructor to take you out on just a fun flight, go to another interesting airport and get some lunch, find a nice grass strip and practice soft fields on a real soft field, just something to break the grind....
You'll probably remember what all the hard work is for!
Beech driver
Well-Known Member
Like flying to a grass strip where they still have the old school glass pop machines and watching aircraft come and go. Perfect day.
As for me, I am still very much love to fly and teach others to fly. True, some days seem longer than others. Some days I wish I could stay home and relax. But I choose not to. Why? I honestly love the look of accomplishment a student has when they reach another milestone. Knowing I taught another person to fly safely brings great satisfaction. I will take all the lumps a student can give me to watch them succeed. It is what I do and part of who I am. I need no other motivation.