What are your career plans?

1. Upgrade to Captain so I can start making some decent money and my girlfriend can quit her crappy job to jumpstart the career she wants.

2. Pay off all my debt I've accrued in credit cards and for my car/school loans.

3. Start saving for a house. Put more than the 8% I'm putting into my 401(k) now. Start a college savings plan for my kids.

4. Start reading up on finances to become much more financially savvy to run a household properly, i.e. become "smarter" with my money.

5. Find a flying job that will pay me much more than the regionals will, and will afford me much time off to spend with my family and friends. I don't care what I fly or where I fly to, just want to stay in the Midwest around Chicago or Michigan flying for a living and having enough time to enjoy home. Working at Southwest or AirTran is very attractive to me.

6. Start a side business to relax the financial worry that working at an airline causes.
 
iwareboy said:
Work as a CFI

Get on at a regional

Apply at Chinese/Taiwanese airlines after 1-2 years & fly longhaul for a few years from China/Taiwan

Move onto Singapore Airlines or Emirates, letting them pay for all my living expenses while I save up the cash and invest

Retire ~50yo
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Good plan, but you may need to spend longer in Taiwan to fulfill the bond requirement.

Might as well go straight to Cathay and have full career there versus the Taiwan then jump somewhere else plan.


TP
 
If you can live in Taiwan long enough to fulfill the bond requirement you are doing well... I remember saying I could live anywhere to get experience in this industry.

These days, its more about lifestyle than anything. I chose where I want to live, if the lifestyle aint there, I aint there!

Typhoonpilot, I take it you fly for EK? Ive been thinking of applying, and probably will, but are things getting better or worse for you guys in the sandpit? I went to one of the EK roadshows, it sounds like they are getting desperate over there...
 
finish up ratings and school. Drive snowcats at night and teach flying during the day. Save as much money from driving snow cats as possible and pay off any debt that I might accrue. and try to find a flying job outside of the U.S.
Plan B: I have a friend that owns a rafting company in costa rica.. Career river rat...
 
Hmm, career is pretty much on track, just need to stop spending well more than I earn on attorneys every month!

Future plans is to scale back, pay off the debt and get legal issues settled so I can move on with my life!

On the saving issue, I think that is a mixed bag. Too many people scrimp and save and then die or lose their health before they can enjoy all of that. What good is being a millionaire at 60 or 70? I guess it's easy to say that, with my relatively secure A and B plan, but I just think there needs to be more of a balance. Why live like you are in poverty while you're young if you don't have to? Seems to me that you want to take some great vacations, etc., with your kids to exotic places, buy those toys, etc. Sure, save some for retirement, but who the heck really wants to just retire and do nothing, sit around some golf course? Not me, yuck, couldn't imagine anything more boring. If it came to that, I'd rather just be on some South Pacific island, where I could live like a king on a modest retirement or do some writing or something.

You have to live life -- there is too much worrying here about being a millionaire after retirement for my taste. All that does is leave money for your kids, nice, but they won't appreciate it, probably!
 
[daydream]
My future huh...

1) Get my CSELI by the end of the fall semester / beginning of spring semester.

2) Do my CFI/CFII over the summer and hopefully land a job part-time during the school year to start building time. My goal is 500/100 my graduation which really shouldn't be hard at all as I have 150/3.3 (haha) now and another 350 over 3 years isnt that unrealistic, especially if I land a part-time gig instructing even just one year.

3) Get my CMELI sometime junior year. Follow that up with MEI/MEII sometime there after as well.

4) Once I hit the PIC part 135 mins, 1200/100, I'll start applying to check haulers and such like crazy if I dont end up somewhere doing SIC work before then.

I guess it all depends on how many hours I have by graduation. Im going to be a sophmore this fall, so I've got a solid 3 years to keep building time. Like I said, ideally I would be a part-time CFI during my junior and senior years, that would be perfect!
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Get my PPL by the time I am 18 and fly for the hell of it. I don't want to be a professional pilot anymore.

Go to a very good college with a good business department, get a degree in Finance.

Work for a year or two with a bank or investment firm.

Get an MBA from Chicago.

Work on Wall Street as an Investment Banker for a reputable firm.

Fly.
 
-Continue working as RN - 3 12hrs shifts a week-provides health insurance and money for beer, food, gas, house payment, replacements for stuff my kids break, etc.
-Get cracking on CFI & do checkride by mid-August/ start instructing
-CFII by Fall sometime, Angel Flight missions to get more XC time with a purpose; MEI whenever I can afford it (see above)
-Convince all the surgeons I know that they REALLY need to learn to fly, preferably in a multi
-begin annoying local 135 freight movers as I get near 1200TT
-Win MegaMillions, pay off house, live off interest, buy KA90, buy good beer again like before we had kids...
 
Japan

HH-60CC said:
They do have Aero Clubs looking for instructors out here in both Okinawa and Mainland Japan if you're interested, would be good time building if you're interested in companies like JAL or ANA.
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I looked into getting my private in Japan south of Osaka and it was going to cost me 40,000 USD. Does the military being in Okinawa support some kind of GA community? How hard was it to get the radio operators license in Japan? I really want to fly in Japan but don't feel like jumping through all the hoops of the Japanese bureaucracy. I would also really like to teach in Japan (flight instruction - NOT English instruction) but I figured it would be next to impossible. Do they hire foreigners to teach there? Is it in English? Any stories/advice on flying and instructing in Japan would be much appreciated.
 
well i would like to attend CWU and major in there aviation program, minor in business.... then get hired through their direct hire program and live a happy life and be able to afford goin on a a cruise once or twice a year :). oh yea and have a family.lol
 
HH-60CC said:
Would like to get CFII, instructor for awhile in Okinawa or mainland, possibly open my own bar either here or in mainland as well
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my father in law retired from ANA...just curious..how much money are FI's making in Oki and the mainland ?
 
JayRay said:
I looked into getting my private in Japan south of Osaka and it was going to cost me 40,000 USD. Does the military being in Okinawa support some kind of GA community? How hard was it to get the radio operators license in Japan? I really want to fly in Japan but don't feel like jumping through all the hoops of the Japanese bureaucracy. I would also really like to teach in Japan (flight instruction - NOT English instruction) but I figured it would be next to impossible. Do they hire foreigners to teach there? Is it in English? Any stories/advice on flying and instructing in Japan would be much appreciated.
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Sorry, didn't see this post, check your PM's I messaged you there


notawannabee said:
my father in law retired from ANA...just curious..how much money are FI's making in Oki and the mainland ?
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Instructors make 22.50 an hour but $45 for a 1 hour tour.

I'm not sure in mainland, since it's a military base, probably the same
 
Hopefully live at home laid up with some work related injury, living on that workmans comp.

Just kidding.

no seriously.......



Fly regional hopefully make capt. get my PIC time and move up to heavy metal.
 
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