What I Would Do If I Was Not To Become a Pilot...

Bigey

Bigey

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So today during a class we're doing a project on our projected profession. Out of the list, there it was - pilot. Bingo! So as i go to sign up for the "pilot" position, some dude comes running out of no where and signs up. Also the rule is only one person per profession. So there I am standing, and my teacher goes "what would you do if you couldnt become a pilot?" and i continued to just stand there...

It hit me so hard today that damnit, i'm really stuck on aviation and would only like to be a pilot. So there you have it, i'm grabbed by the balls for this damn love of aviation.

Oh btw, my answer to the question was "Be a flight engineer."

Any body else have this type of feeling? Where you can hear so much bad stuff, and the risk involved and the crap of it, and your love just grows stronger.
 
"Any body else have this type of feeling? Where you can hear so much bad stuff, and the risk involved and the crap of it, and your love just grows stronger"

Yup I feel like that every day, I just can't get flying out of my head. I'm still getting a BIZ degree just to be safe, if things don't work out
 
cwu50 said:
"Any body else have this type of feeling? Where you can hear so much bad stuff, and the risk involved and the crap of it, and your love just grows stronger"

Yup I feel like that every day, I just can't get flying out of my head. I'm still getting a BIZ degree just to be safe, if things don't work out
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Word!

Now i'm not saying dont plan for the worst, but i'm saying it's not your number one priority to do something outside of aviation.

Hell i'm getting my degree too, but i dont think i'd ever be as happy as i would in that degree as i would flying!
 
I love flying so much I cannot see a future for myself without it...I actually dream about flying a few times a week and it's always awsome.

But if not a pilot I guess I would like to be a soccer player or a rock star maybe a hollywood actor. :cool:

Or a marine geologist!
 
hmm firefighter. still would like to do that...

or better yet pilot of one of those big waterbomber planes, i guess thats still a pilot but what can ya do. :rolleyes:
 
Not sure of the specifics, but working with computer hardware.
Though I'm also looking into a Mechanical Engineering degree. I love building and tinkering with stuff.
 
The thought of not flying for a living doesn't scare me as much as it used to only because I lived without it for so long. What scares me is being away from aviation so much that I wouldn't be able to go near an airport in fear of being sad. I have a friend who couldn't find a flying job in the late 80s and became a truck driver. He would avoid routes near airports out of sadness. After 10 years, during the last hiring boom, his friends convinced him to get back into aviation and he did. He had just gotten re-CFI'd when I was looking for a CFI for my CFI. A couple years ago, a new girlfriend convinced him to go back to truck driving. I haven't heard from him since.

I would definitely find something to do in aviation if I could
 
Just so you know, I was actually asked that in an interview. The way it was phrased was, "I know you wouldn't want it to happen, and I wouldn't wish it on you, but what would you be doing if you were told tomorrow that you couldn't fly anymore."

Mine was easy, since I had more resumes out as a software engineer than as a pilot. :)
 
Bigey said:
Oh btw, my answer to the question was "Be a flight engineer."
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By the time you get out of college, not sure how many FE jobs will still be around, unless you go overseas.

You need to find a profession that you will be happy with if the flying doesn't work out. Maybe law enforcement, you seem to have experience there! :sarcasm:

Seriously, I have really enjoyed the Engineer side, but now I think is time to change. There is also alot of different Engineering fields now compared to when I was in college.
 
If I could do anything it wouldn't be automation. I do that for the money. And the chicks.

Chicks dig robot geeks!!!

:)

Seriously though, the good thing about my job is I am the only one who can't have their job automated and get canned. At least not yet...We have to keep our eye on that pesky skyenet.
 
Bigey said:
It hit me so hard today that damnit, i'm really stuck on aviation and would only like to be a pilot. So there you have it, i'm grabbed by the balls for this damn love of aviation.
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I'd simply follow the direction of my natural interests. I grew up around the phone business, and while working a McJob in a call center I saw an opportunity for an apprentice-junior-technician-type gig. So I went after it and got it.

15 years later I've had various jobs in this industry, and they've been fun for the most part. Learned a lot, have marketable skills, make good money.

You spend more than 1/3 of your life working. At least find something vaguely interesting - whatever that might be for you.
 
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Nah, in all seriousness, that's why I'm getting a BBA in Economics. Leaves my potential "fall-back" job possibilities open, looks good, is interesting, and puts me in good shape for advancement in the pilot world.
 
Would love to go into neuroscience. Finishing a B.S. in Psychology, minor in Biology. If a few years down the road I'm flying professionally and not digging it, I may go back to grad school.
 
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