Re: Pilot Jobs
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:40 pm
[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=8659.msg23792#msg23792 date=1530416646]
Heh.
[quote]came out of flight school with a commercial/multi IFR and is now in the right seat of a 737, six months later[/quote]
I know there are some people that despite living the Cinderella
story, get up to speed on the job. But I fear that others do not,
and as a result have the depth of a puddle when stuff goes south.
[/quote]
With the massive demographic shift in my industry (rail) I've seen a similar decline in skills. Things that we used to take for granted that a railroader should know we now take for granted that they don't know. With all of the retirements combined with a huge increase in traffic and new hiring to compensate some skills have definitely been lost within the collective memory.
[quote author=Eric Janson link=topic=8659.msg23829#msg23829 date=1530616545]
I wouldn't trade my 7 years at Buffalo Airways.
Things I learned there have kept me out of trouble flying large jets around the World.
Makes my CV stand out from everyone else's and I get some interesting reactions when people find out I worked there.
There's only so much you can learn from a book.
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That is the truth. I'm a locomotive engineer, you can draw a lot of parallels between railroading and flying as a career. I spent the first decade of my career on the former BC Rail territory which is mountainous, remote, and more akin to driving roller coasters than freight trains. I work the main line now and make a whole lot more money, but I developed skills on the former BC Rail that I use every day. I never would have developed those skills (not to mention had the adventures and stories to tell) had I spent my whole career on the main line.
[quote author=Rookie Pilot link=topic=8659.msg23831#msg23831 date=1530624248]
I'm just a random Internet Troll who knows nothing -- the experts like Goldeneagle know much more --but these trends do not happen early in the business cycle.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Bank a chunk of money. Reduce borrowing leverage.
Next recession closer than it seems.
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Amen.
I regularly preach this to the new hires at work, most of whom are now making more money than they've ever seen by a significant margin (but don't necessarily know how to handle it). Things are booming now but that won't last forever. It makes me shake my head when I see some guy with a whopping two months on the job roll into work in his new $80000 pickup, little does he know that a layoff is only a slight dip in traffic away. For most it goes in one ear and out the other, but occasionally I get one who actually listens.
Heh.
[quote]came out of flight school with a commercial/multi IFR and is now in the right seat of a 737, six months later[/quote]
I know there are some people that despite living the Cinderella
story, get up to speed on the job. But I fear that others do not,
and as a result have the depth of a puddle when stuff goes south.
[/quote]
With the massive demographic shift in my industry (rail) I've seen a similar decline in skills. Things that we used to take for granted that a railroader should know we now take for granted that they don't know. With all of the retirements combined with a huge increase in traffic and new hiring to compensate some skills have definitely been lost within the collective memory.
[quote author=Eric Janson link=topic=8659.msg23829#msg23829 date=1530616545]
I wouldn't trade my 7 years at Buffalo Airways.
Things I learned there have kept me out of trouble flying large jets around the World.
Makes my CV stand out from everyone else's and I get some interesting reactions when people find out I worked there.
There's only so much you can learn from a book.
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That is the truth. I'm a locomotive engineer, you can draw a lot of parallels between railroading and flying as a career. I spent the first decade of my career on the former BC Rail territory which is mountainous, remote, and more akin to driving roller coasters than freight trains. I work the main line now and make a whole lot more money, but I developed skills on the former BC Rail that I use every day. I never would have developed those skills (not to mention had the adventures and stories to tell) had I spent my whole career on the main line.
[quote author=Rookie Pilot link=topic=8659.msg23831#msg23831 date=1530624248]
I'm just a random Internet Troll who knows nothing -- the experts like Goldeneagle know much more --but these trends do not happen early in the business cycle.
Enjoy it while it lasts. Bank a chunk of money. Reduce borrowing leverage.
Next recession closer than it seems.
[/quote]
Amen.
I regularly preach this to the new hires at work, most of whom are now making more money than they've ever seen by a significant margin (but don't necessarily know how to handle it). Things are booming now but that won't last forever. It makes me shake my head when I see some guy with a whopping two months on the job roll into work in his new $80000 pickup, little does he know that a layoff is only a slight dip in traffic away. For most it goes in one ear and out the other, but occasionally I get one who actually listens.