First aviation blog here

I figured it was time to put something up here.

You know, it never ceases to amaze me on how the whole job interview process in avation works. Right now I'm happy to have the job I do. Espically after working for some of the a-holes that I have. I've had guys from Lakes come up to me and say, "Wow I'm just amazed you actually worked for those guys!"

Well now I'm living in Chicago, not by choice exactly. I really hated leaving Colorado, but good gods that job market sucks. For awhile I limited my job search to Colorado, or some places nearby. However I eventually had to expand my search since it was taking so long. It took 6 months to find my current job. And I had about 1900 total time, 800 multi and 345 hours in Lear 25s, 35s, and 55s.

Having worked for Mesa for a short time, and with what I read on here and from what I hear from my friends in the airline world I want NOTHING to do with them. But, I wasn't able to find anything that paid 30k or more.

It was amazing, I hardly got ANY calls, and probably about 6 job interviews. Most of which seemed to go well. Although I did break down an interview at Republic and promply screwed that interview up. Ever have one of those moments when you tell yourself NOT to do something, and then you do it anyways? Yeah that happened to me. I generally interview pretty well, but I just couldn't get anything to fall into place. My resume was professionally done, I've read books on how to interview (Checklist for Success is a good one btw) and I've had some interview tips from job placement companies.

This all happened while the industry was (supposedly) hiring everyone and anyone.
Funny thing is, my interview here in Chicago I thought went poorly, but here I am!

So the lession learned here, and I hope anyone reading this realizes is: jobs are never a certain thing, and be grateful when you get one. It's okay to be picky, but you have to balance that with being open to going where the work is.

Sounds pretty basic huh? Most people I figure would say, well DUH!!! And normally I'd have said that as well, but when you find yourself in a situation like that one, it's easy to think "Well that won't happen to me! I know better/have different experience."

When you start thinking: "that will never happen to me" is generally when the #### is about to hit the fan.

Now the industry has turned yet again, and the job market sucks and the competition is about to get fierce. Hell my company here just hired a Captain from ATA and Comair (I think) as First Officers. I'm lucky I have my job, and that I got it when I did

If any of you guys that pay for those jet courses, or go to Riddle, or FlightSafety, etc and think you're entitled to a job for just completing their training you better wake the #### up.