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Originally Posted by oldschoollear
Sadly, SJS'ers were ,and will be, lining up for those jobs at the same rates "just to get their foot in the door". They are developing a precedent for low wages because they don't want to sacrifice a few years to flight instruction, freight, banner towing etc. I'm sure there are plenty of guys like me (3500tt+, gobs of multi ,600 tpic, ) who refuse to work for that BS.
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I know the feeling... I've got about 2700TT and just under 1000 multi myself. I just re-upped my CFI hoping to get some time instructing just to keep myself involved/busy but the industry is (like most others) at a total standstill out here. No hiring, no movement, very few students. I haven't seen it this bad since right after 9/11. Actually I think now is even worse than it was post-9/11, and post-9/11 was pretty sucky.
I have to admit the thought of getting into a "shiny jet" has some appeal (especially as I've been sitting around without a real income for almost a year now) but OTOH I'm at an age now where the "SJS" won't sufficiently entice me to sit in the right seat looking at CRTs and making radio calls for 10+ years at $15 an hour or whatever. No thanks. I can make more than that flying C172s instructing (assuming the economy starts recovering and people start flying more again).
Yeah, the flying is fun and I miss it, but for the same money as a right-seat regional guy I'd rather go back to flying my beat-up PA31s and Be99s - at least I was actually FLYING those - by hand, in actual IMC, day-in and day-out. I enjoyed the hell out of that job even if the schedules/salary/layovers/benefits all sucked.