Dont know if this is the right place for this.
Well. Im 16. Have awesome grades and could go to a good college if I want to. Until now I wanted to study medicine or law. But the pilot job really interests me. Do we have any pilots here? My parents dont like it but they'll let me do whatever I want. But I'm questioning myself now. I dont want to spend too much time away from home and my future family. I dont want the wife cheating on me since Im away from home either.
Do you guys know any pilots? How is the job like?
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Don't let anyone or anything hold you back.
If you don't believe in yourself who will?
It took me a long time to realize that.dolfan94 and opfinistic like this. -
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What would you do every day if you didn't need to worry about money?
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But thanks for the advice. Its really helpful! Keep it coming!opfinistic likes this. -
Be a pilot. Have lots of sex. Everything else will figure itself out. If you don't, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. If we don't dream, then we're no more than ants; moving from job to job without purpose or happiness. I moved to another country to fulfill my dreams, and I don't regret it for a second. That's what's great about your 20's, you have the time to screw stuff up and still recover.
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Between my last post and this one we paint a bleak picture for the lad!dolfan94 likes this. -
My uncle is a pilot. It's a cool lifestyle in your 20's. It does put a strain on your marriage and raising your children. Good income but you might have to wake up at any given moment and fly. He told me that with the technology nowadays all you have to do is take off and land, the rest is just punching in coordinates. He ultimately did it because he couldn't cut it as a Doctor.
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Airline pilots get paid a lot of money because they have to be able to make crucial decisions in a crisis. 99.9% of the job you could train a monkey to do, it's the 0.1% that is where the crucial bit comes in.
If you really want to fly try the airforce, or air arms of the other military fliers. The flying is much more exciting and rewarding, but the financial rewards aren't the same. -
If you are serious join the air force and see if you can make it as pilot. If you fall short that's ok because you still come out a better man and better prepare with the skills you learned.
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How's your eye sight?
Are you in good physical shape?
Family health history?
Look for possible disqualifiers.
If you can find a job that's not "like work" all the time when you do it, then you'll know.
Any job can hurt a marriage if it's put above the marriage. Sometimes it's necessary (i.e. long overseas routes), sometimes it's not (i.e. puddle jumper routes). It's all about the sacrifices you want to make.
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I have a slightly different take than a lot of people. I say find something you LIKE and make it a career and save the things you LOVE for fun.
No matter the career, there are always aspects that take the joy from it. Whether it be dealing with bosses or clients or just the daily rut. Even porn stars call what they do work. Keep what you are passionate about free from all that.
I view it like this, you have 3 sets of 8 hours in a day. 1 set is spent working, another is spent sleeping. That leaves only 8 hours a day for you to do as you please. That is even knocked down by commuting, eating, bathroom, dressing, etc. If you don't save what little time you have everyday for things that qualify as a passion then there's no point in life in the first place.DevilFin13 and dolfan94 like this. -
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Study medicine, earn a shed load of money then become a pilot. You'll always have medicine to fall back on if planes aren't around by 2015...I'm still waiting for my flying DeLorean Zemeckis, still waiting..
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My advice is don't go into medicine unless you really want to help people or really want money, because anything in-between means you will be miserable.
Don't go into law unless all you care about is money, unless you decide to go down the path of something you believe in like environmental law, where you won't make any money :lol:
I find, through all the many college kids I used to instruct, that many of them picked pre-med or pre-law because they couldn't find something they really wanted to do instead. Don't make that mistake and waste four years of your life.Muck likes this. -
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I was once thisclose to going through that career path. I decided not to but from what I remember the hardest part was getting the job after school.
There are plenty of pilots out there so the competition is really high especially from guys that have flown for the Armed Forces.
If you are willing to take your lumps looking for a gig after school and you love to fly by all means do it. Just remember that way before you even finish school you need to network and try and get on somewhere, anywhere (any airline or even charter) so that you can land the/a job and they dont see you so green. Doesnt mean you need to get a pilot job ahead of time but a job working with an airline/charter wouldnt hurt either. -
maybe consider a prestigious and thorough flight education in the airforce. you could always goto college first, and then enter the airforce as an officer. i'd have to think thats the absolute best way to learn to fly.
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Lots of good advice in this thread, so I'll try and come at you from a slightly different angle.
You've said you love sports. It's something your passionate about. This might sound a little off the wall, but depending on your level of passion, you may want to consider how your career path will impact your ability to enjoy these things.
Using myself as an example, I've always been passionate about the Dolphins and football in general since I was a kid. When it came time to work as a teenager and in college, I made sure up front that my Friday nights and Sundays would be free. If that didn't work for them, I thanked them for their time.
In my 25 or so years of fandom, I've missed one Dolphins game (as a teenager, for work). And it just reaffirmed how much I couldn't do without it. As an adult, I stayed that course. And I'm not ashamed of it one bit. It's something that's important to me and, above all, makes me happy.
Basically what I'm saying is, you'll be flying plenty of weekends as a pilot. As was mentioned by others, it comes with an unpredictable schedule. Do you think you'd love flying enough to miss Dolphins games? Or anything else that piloting would conflict with?Ohio Fanatic and Ronnie Bass like this. -
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But I didn't post it because I wasn't sure if I was the only one who would consider this a valid reason to consider what you want to do as a career, but since you did I am just going to happily jump aboard.Muck likes this. -
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Small point:
- Most commercial airlines pilots do NOT make a lot of money. In fact, most of them make crap money. Only the big carriers pay well and there you're faced with insane competition to get hired in the first place. If you don't get in and need to hire at a regional carrier or a low cost airline, you're not getting paid much better than a janitor.RickyBobby likes this. -
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Awesome advice, and it is something that I have and do consider. Sports are a huge part of my life. I couldn't live without them. Both playing and watching. As of piloting, I think I have put it to the side. The negatives outweigh the positives. The biggest negative is spending time away from your family, but that is a huge one.
The main thing I want to do is medicine. Specifically becoming an orthopedist. LOVE the actual job. Love the doctor environment. And its not in a "hospital environment" with late hours and fast paced environment, so I like that. The only thing I dont like its all the sciences you have to take in college, but Im sure that if Im really commited to what Im doing, I wont care about the classes, and I will actually do well in them -
Not to be a dick, but I'm pretty sure science is a huge part to not only become a doctor, but also to the everyday of the job.
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Seriously, it is a good question. But I wouldn't worry too much about it right now. I had no clue what my major would be until the end of my sophomore year, much less what my career was going to be. I chose political science because it was really interesting.
From there I thought I wanted to go to law school. I didn't get into the schools I wanted so I took some time off. Two years later I go to grad school and just recently got my masters. And I still don't know exactly what I want to do for a career.
But I have very few regrets. I really enjoyed the college and grad school experience. I'm very different from what I was when I was 16, and for the most part I'm happy about that.
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Haha. What I thread
Right now, Im pretty sure that I want to become a doctor. Specifically a pediatrician.
While I would have to take the sciences, etc., taking physics this year has proven to me that if I study(A LOT), I can do well in any class. I currently have an A in the class. So if I really want to become a doctor Im sure I'll study just as hard in college.
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This may sound cliche but if you work your *** off to you can do whatever you want. Just keep truckin' bro.
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Thanks. That's my Point of View in life as well. My 2nd theory is that since whatever job you have you won't want to wake up and leave your bed to go, you might as well do you that pays good money and gives you a good quality of life.
For example: I love soccer and I love refereeing soccer but now that I am a ref, getting payed pretty well too, I realized that I still want to stay in bed instead of waking up to referee and that once Im there, I want it to be over. Even if I worked at Dolphins Training Camp I would want it to be over. So I might as well become a doctor(which I like) and have a good quality of life. And I dont mind studying.Rocky Raccoon likes this. -
His son (my uncle who I told you about earlier in the thread) started out wanting to be a doctor but found it to be too difficult and then began flying planes as a second option. So trying to be a doctor first is a good idea, but don't discount the lifestyle of an airline pilot either. There is definitely a prestige factor with being a pilot. He once had a job flying the Charlotte Hornets NBA team in NC. He had free home game tickets and a lavish lifestyle that included being a guest on the owner's yacht once a year. He told me once that it doesn't matter how much money you make in life and he went on to say that the owner of the Hornets was the most miserable person he's ever met in his life.
Some food for thought...
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