Today marks the 8-year anniversary of when I got my commercial rating and with 400 hours began looking for work as a pilot (after several attempts I came to the conclusion that I being a teacher wasn’t going to work out, and thus am not a CFI).
Just a month later I got my first interview. It was showing clients real estate that was for sale in Myrtle Beach from an R-44. Just 2 days a week, $400 bucks a month, but I lost out to a CFI.
Anyway, 6 years later (2 years ago) having gotten no other interviews (I used to come here a lot and bitch about that, among other things, but now I just stop by once a year…to bitch, moan, and groan ), I said f*ck it and became a truck driver.
Ironically, shortly thereafter I got an interview! This one (the first in 6 years) was also in Myrtle Beach, only flying tours in an R-44. Sadly even after showing great interest in me, and getting the green light from their check pilot, I was not offered the job.
A week or so later, I got a call on another resume, and after a short phone interview I was offered a job drying cherries in Washington. Sadly a week or so before I was to start I got a call that their other pilot crashed the helicopter, and although he walked away fine, the chopper was thrashed and they were out of business!
One year later (last year) I got another interview with that same company to fly tours in Myrtle Beach, but again was not offered the job.
This brings us to this year and sadly no interviews, so its back to the road for me!
So to any of you newbies who may be having doubts about teaching? Flight instruct, or drive a truck! See ya next year.
10/4 good buddies
You know it’s kind of fortuitous that my first official day as a commercial pilot was April 1st!
Edited by r22butters, 08 June 2015 - 15:51.