Pathetic Pilot Salaries

Jeff,
Appropos of nothing except I decided, after following your posts for some
time now, to check out your artwork. I'm a bit disappointed by the quick
registration. Only "Mr", "Mrs" or "Miss" are available title options.
Given your presence here, where's "Skygod" or "Pilot Extraordinaire" for all
your rap buddies?? :-)

Great work, by the way. You're right, too. I do envy your talent!

Shawn
"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
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On 8/28/04 1:34 PM, in article _m3Yc.159179$sh.9794@fed1read06, "Darrell"
wrote:

Trying for an aviation career is somewhat like trying to be a rock star.
Because of the "glamour" of the job and the big bucks you can make it
you
make it to the "big time" airlines, people are willing to work for
peanuts
to have a chance to grab the brass ring. But unlike artists, pilots not
only have to work for almost nothing, they also have to first spend lots
of
their own money to gain the experience and ratings necessary to fly for
pay.

I'd say most artists spend more time learning their craft than pilots.
I've
been drawing since I could hold a crayon and that doesn't seem to be
unusual. I remember drawing a caricature of my mother in the dirt as a
kid.

It took a lot of money and time (I gave Uncle Sam 4 years in order to have
him to pay for college) to get to the point that people are willing to pay
me for my artwork, and it took a lot of experience (which cost me more
money) before I learned how to charge anywhere near what I'm worth.

But like flying, I can't begrudge a single moment of the work that it took
to get to this point. I have a talent that a lot of people envy and will
pay
for, and it finances my flying. How many people have that opportunity?

It's a great time and place to be alive. I was born at a time in history
where piloting a private plane is (nearly) commonplace, the US lets me fly
virtually unrestricted, the internet gives me a global client base to help
pay for it, and technologies like GPS makes it so much safer and easier to
get from place to place I almost feel like I'm cheating when I use it.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

On 8/28/04 4:10 PM, in article ,
"ShawnD2112" wrote:

Jeff,
Appropos of nothing except I decided, after following your posts for some
time now, to check out your artwork. I'm a bit disappointed by the quick
registration. Only "Mr", "Mrs" or "Miss" are available title options.
Given your presence here, where's "Skygod" or "Pilot Extraordinaire" for all
your rap buddies?? :-)

Great work, by the way. You're right, too. I do envy your talent!

Shawn

Shawn,

Thank you for the very kind words, but I'm afraid you have me at a loss.
Neither of my websites listed below require any sort of registration.
I think you may have followed a link in error, especially given your mention
of the word "rap".
Can you get back to me on this? I'd be interested to know who or what you
are confusing my cartoons with.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

Jeff,
I clicked on the link to wizardofdraws.com and it brought me to a page
http://register.freeze.com/(myjkddvdvb5fvw552yjv1k45)/index.aspx?&pop=1&s=cl
ipartsample&f=19818
which had a registration on it for some free downloads, all of which I
assumed were your work. Is this not the right place? The reference to rap
was rec.aviation.piloting, the usenet group we're talking on here. Am I on
the wrong track?

Shawn
"Wizard of Draws" wrote in message
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On 8/28/04 4:10 PM, in article ,
"ShawnD2112" wrote:

Jeff,
Appropos of nothing except I decided, after following your posts for
some
time now, to check out your artwork. I'm a bit disappointed by the
quick
registration. Only "Mr", "Mrs" or "Miss" are available title options.
Given your presence here, where's "Skygod" or "Pilot Extraordinaire" for
all
your rap buddies?? :-)

Great work, by the way. You're right, too. I do envy your talent!

Shawn

Shawn,

Thank you for the very kind words, but I'm afraid you have me at a loss.
Neither of my websites listed below require any sort of registration.
I think you may have followed a link in error, especially given your
mention
of the word "rap".
Can you get back to me on this? I'd be interested to know who or what you
are confusing my cartoons with.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

"Mike Rapoport" wrote:

Southwest is a very special case. It's the child of a brilliant
manager/founder. Such individuals are rare - vanishingly scarce in
publicly traded corporations.


I don't know if I would agree that SWA success was dependent on
brilliance.
It seems pretty simple. SWA seems to be the only airline that
realizes who
the customer is, what they want and set up a business to provide it.

Seems simple doesn't it? But I make a good living off the chronic
inability of my large corporate competitors to do just that. I'm
thankful that the level of management talent in Fortune 500 companies is
what it is, and I'm sure Herb Kelleher was, too.

The other airlines talk about restructuring but, as soon as the
economy gets
good, they go back to their old ways and the cycle repeats.

Corporate America's idea of "restructuring" usually amounts to little
more than cutting head count and expecting the survivors to cope as best
they can. They usually offer deals that encourage their most experienced
employees to leave. I love this; it's guaranteed to **** off even their
most loyal customers and make my phone ring.

But you're right, Mike: if Delta and United survive into a boom cycle,
upper management will head back to the golf course and let things get
fat again.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

In article m, Wizard
of Draws wrote:

Thank you for the very kind words, but I'm afraid you have me at a loss.
Neither of my websites listed below require any sort of registration.
I think you may have followed a link in error, especially given your
mention
of the word "rap".

perhaps rap - r.a.p. - rec.aviation.piloting ???

--
Bob Noel
Seen on Kerry's campaign airplane: "the real deal"
oh yeah baby.

On 8/28/04 6:41 PM, in article ,
"ShawnD2112" wrote:

Jeff,
I clicked on the link to wizardofdraws.com and it brought me to a page
http://register.freeze.com/(myjkddvdvb5fvw552yjv1k45)/index.aspx?&pop=1&s=cl
ipartsample&f=19818
which had a registration on it for some free downloads, all of which I
assumed were your work. Is this not the right place? The reference to rap
was rec.aviation.piloting, the usenet group we're talking on here. Am I on
the wrong track?

Shawn

RAP, duh.

Odd, I can't for the life of me tell you why that link is the one you are
taken to when you click on my web URL below. That site has nothing to do
with me at all. I'll have to investigate that.

Cut and paste http://www.wizardofdraws.com into your browser window and my
website will appear. I think you'll find my work is a bit better than what
you saw at that other site.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

On 8/28/04 7:44 PM, in article
, "Bob Noel"
wrote:

In article m, Wizard
of Draws wrote:

Thank you for the very kind words, but I'm afraid you have me at a loss.
Neither of my websites listed below require any sort of registration.
I think you may have followed a link in error, especially given your
mention
of the word "rap".

perhaps rap - r.a.p. - rec.aviation.piloting ???

Duh. The whole registration thing threw me off track.
--
Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino
Cartoons with a Touch of Magic�
www.wizardofdraws.com
www.cartoonclipart.com

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:56:08 -0400, Wizard of Draws
wrote:

It's a great time and place to be alive. I was born at a time in history
where piloting a private plane is (nearly) commonplace, the US lets me fly
virtually unrestricted, the internet gives me a global client base to help
pay for it, and technologies like GPS makes it so much safer and easier to
get from place to place I almost feel like I'm cheating when I use it.

Thank you, Wiz, for the reality check!

They are all great times, if you approach them in the right frame of
mind, and this is indeed a great place to enjoy them.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com
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Wizard of Draws wrote in message news:BD56A119.1E445%jeffbREMOVE@REMOVEwizardofdra ws.com...
On 8/28/04 6:41 PM, in article ,
"ShawnD2112" wrote:

http://register.freeze.com/(myjkddvdvb5fvw552yjv1k45)/index.aspx?&pop=1&s=cl
ipartsample&f=19818

Odd, I can't for the life of me tell you why that link is the one you are
taken to when you click on my web URL below. That site has nothing to do
with me at all. I'll have to investigate that.


I think what he's doing is from your web page, clicking on the google
ad link to animal clipart. That goes to that register.freeze.com
site.

Shawn, instead of clicking on the google ad at the top of the page,
scroll down to the bottom and use the links such as "Toons" and "Small
toons"

William W. Plummer ) wrote:
:
: And you are right about labor in India. Once they master the
: technology,
:

Make that "technologies", including medicine, pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, et.al.

:
: we will be the customer and will completely lack the ability to
: compete.
:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...how/786093.cms
Now comes Knowledge Process Outsourcing - The Economic Times

"ECONOMICTIMES.COM [ THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2004 12:18:08 AM ]

If you thought outsourcing is limited to just tech jobs, you need to
run an update program. The next big wave is going to involve the
outsourcing of high-skill or 'knowledge' jobs such as accountants,
lawyers, engineers and doctors to foreign countries.

According to Slicon.com, knowledge process offshoring, or KPO will
rule the future and will grow faster than the much talked about BPO.
If you are still wondering what this KPO means, here's an example. A
law firm outsourcing basic case research to trainee lawyers or legal
experts in a foreign country or may be a pharmaceutical company
conducting R&D for new drugs in offshore facilities..."


http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/aug/26bpo.htm
'All US tech jobs will move out in a decade'

"'All US tech jobs will move out in a decade'
August 26, 2004 12:04 IST

Every technology-related job in the United States would be moved to
overseas destinations within a decade as relocation of jobs to
countries like India would enable firms to cut costs, a top American
businesswomen has said.

"That is a scary concept," Kathy Brittain White, who was named the
Forbes Top 25 American Businesswomen in 2001, said.

"If something is not done in 10 years, every technology job will be
overseas," White, a former CIO of Cardinal Health Inc, said on
Wednesday..."


--Jerry Leslie
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