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Originally Posted by austin_kw
... Hoping to one day find a career as a commercial pilot.
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Reminds me of a story.
I worked for Delta Air Lines for 10 years in IT. I was talking to the Chief Pilot one day and he asked me how I enjoyed my job. I told him it was great, but I would much rather have his job.
He said, "well, you must have made an error on your job application. When I applied in the 'what job are you applying for' I typed PILOT. What did you put?"
I got a good chuckle out of that. It probably didn't hurt that right afterwards he took me into the 777 simulator with him and let me do a couple of landings!
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austin_kw as said above, as long as you go into it with clear expectations that it's a long haul to get there, I say go for it, just don't go deep in debt to do it. There are going to be some lean years but you can't beat the view out of your office.