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EDUC8-or · August 22nd, 2003, 10:14

Don't hang up your David Clarks just yet! I know 100% where you are coming from. I was thinking about leaving teaching (kids) and only teaching (flying) this year. I simlpy couldn't afford it. As Doug said, this industry is feast or famine. Well, my flight school is feasting right now and I'm in on it. But even flying 3-4 times a day, every day, seven days a week my paycheck was about 1/2 of what I make as a school teacher sans benefits.

Don't let anyone tell you you're in the wrong industry because you are greedy. Maybe they don't know what it's like to pay rent, try to have some food in the fridge, pay car insurance, afford car payments, pay a phone bill, manage student loans, keep the electric company at bay, keep static from forming on your cell phone (You can't hear me now? NOT GOOD!), stop those credit cards from melting, and pay any other bills on 10-15 bucks an hour. And that's NOT a guaranteed 40 hour work week. I'm not in it for the money, but it sure is nice to have a roof over my head and not mess up my credit so I can actually buy a new car or house one day. (Although I would keep my '89 MX-6 with 150,000 miles on it forever if my wife would let me!)

I think if you were in it for the money, you would have high tailed it by now. Don't listen to the naysayers and critics. If you have the passion for it (and you know what IT is) there shouldn't be anything that gets in your way.

August 22nd, 2003, 10:14	#33
EDUC8-or Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: NC Posts: 2,341	Re: Flight Instructor--and may eventually stop piloting Don't hang up your David Clarks just yet! I know 100% where you are coming from. I was thinking about leaving teaching (kids) and only teaching (flying) this year. I simlpy couldn't afford it. As Doug said, this industry is feast or famine. Well, my flight school is feasting right now and I'm in on it. But even flying 3-4 times a day, every day, seven days a week my paycheck was about 1/2 of what I make as a school teacher sans benefits. Don't let anyone tell you you're in the wrong industry because you are greedy. Maybe they don't know what it's like to pay rent, try to have some food in the fridge, pay car insurance, afford car payments, pay a phone bill, manage student loans, keep the electric company at bay, keep static from forming on your cell phone (You can't hear me now? NOT GOOD!), stop those credit cards from melting, and pay any other bills on 10-15 bucks an hour. And that's NOT a guaranteed 40 hour work week. I'm not in it for the money, but it sure is nice to have a roof over my head and not mess up my credit so I can actually buy a new car or house one day. (Although I would keep my '89 MX-6 with 150,000 miles on it forever if my wife would let me!) I think if you were in it for the money, you would have high tailed it by now. Don't listen to the naysayers and critics. If you have the passion for it (and you know what IT is) there shouldn't be anything that gets in your way.