On Oct 10, 10:57 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Union Thug" wrote

As far as college; Tell your boy to do what ever he wants but stay
away from most of theses aviation colleges ESPECIALLY Embry Riddle.

You -seriously- need to work on your posting skills.

Thanks for the post Jim. Not sure how that happened and I will make it
clear that this is not the opinion of Jay. Many of these aviation
schools will paint you into a corner career wise . You will spend 60
to 90 K and then have an 1800 a month job to show for it. And if you
change your mind, you wont be qualified to do anything else. It is
better to major in something you can fall back on.



As far as slow times go, there will be no slow times for Joe (or any other
qualified pilots) in the 5 or 6 years it will take to get him ready. They
will be trying to find trained monkeys to be pilots by then.

Right again Jim. There are jobs (At least for now) but the problem is
that they dont pay anything. In real dollars I make less now than I
did 10 years ago.And I will probably make less in 10 years than I do
today. I wont be so bold as to sugest what Jay's kid does with his
life, But I would tell him that if he wants a meaningful decent paying
job he should look outside of flying.

The fears about pensions can be said about -any- job in this day and age.
No profession is safe. That is one reason there are people funding their
own retirements.
Once again, you hit the nail. But consider this, flying is the only
job where the government makes you retire at the peak of your earning
years (OK, maybe ATC too). And lets not even address disability and
survivorship benifits. About a third of us will lose our medicals at
some point in our careers. In the words of a dear friend of mine who
works at Jetblue "I took this ****ty low paying airline job so I can
get some experience, Now all I am qualified to do is hold a ****ty
low paying airline job".
K Baum