PART 2 - What do you do for a living?

[Balastrea]

Daniella,

Your work is awesome! You need to sell your Joshua tree pic and you can make some extra $$ I'm first in line remember!

Oh and to ad to the thread... I am my kids Dad. I stay at home with my Daughter and am trying to get some things going with my website
http://www.mytalisman.com

Not much there but I would love to do more with some Free Lance work as well. I LOVE photography and allways have. Up until recenty my dream had faded but since I started to do some reading and found the DRebel and of course this forum I am inspired again. I have learned LOADS from all these great people as well as some of the library books I've checked out.
You people are awesome!

Balastrea

then I guess there is no hope for me )

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I'm enjoying the thread and responses. It's interesting to see
peoples backgrounds and where they might be "coming" from with
perspective.

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PJ

 

[Medic Laviña]

...Just kidding.

I'm an analyst programmer.
I don't have a 300D yet. Still saving money to buy one.

Medic
C-a-n-o-n- -A-7-0

 

[José Luís Malaquias]

The national flag carrier pilots at least, earn a fortune, work fewer hours than any other pilot in Europe, blackmail management with strikes on every critical season, and have the snobbiest attitude.

I am not saying that what you say isn't true in the US: But it certainly isn't true the world over.

Besides, many of them were trained at our own expense in the air force, and then they applied for a political election they would never win, just so they could be dismissed from the air force (political candidates used to get an early dismissal without having to compensate the air force for their training). That shows how ethical they were.

Stay away from the airlines.

The responsibility, skill and years of training and experience that
go into being able to qualify for those jobs and then have to deal
with a 30 - 50% pay cuts while management walks away with millions
in their pockets, loose your house, car, ect.... just so the
general public can fly across the country for $39.00...... isn't
worth it.

That's what today's airline pilot is dealing with.

Enjoy your flight.

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[José Luís Malaquias]

Yep, I was thinking about it.
What stroke me is the prevalence of airline pilots.
I never imagined there'd be so many out there.

There were also quite a few doctors in the beginning, but now they have disappeared. Guess they started their shifts. LOL

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[julian porter]

...Just kidding.

I'm an analyst programmer.
I don't have a 300D yet. Still saving money to buy one.

Medic
C-a-n-o-n- -A-7-0

Hi Medic , Good answer

now get out there and Alalize a bit more so you can afford your 300D

Jules
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Julian Porter Southampton UK
Sony P9 & 717 and Canon 300D

 

[Steve Norton190199]

author. My website is:
http://www.freeyourmind.info
Regards
Steve

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[T0M0S]

I'm enjoying the thread and responses. It's interesting to see
peoples backgrounds and where they might be "coming" from with
perspective.
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I am an IT Consultant based in North Wales, mainly I build wireless wide-area networks http://www.gaia-tech.com/broadband either for local communities who can't get DSL or Cable or for Gaia to sell to end-users as a W-ISP. But we also do standard IT stuff. I use the 300d for line-of-sight stuff, but its just an excuse reallly to get my boss to contribute to the cost of my hobby

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Tom.
http://www.tomlast.net

 

[José Luís Malaquias]

I wish I could give MY boss that excuse.
I hope yours isn't reading this forum, though.

You must have plenty of wonderful toys, with the kind of work you do.

T0M0S wrote:
I use the

300d for line-of-sight stuff, but its just an excuse reallly to get
my boss to contribute to the cost of my hobby

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[Molteni Bruno]

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[Mirten]

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[T0M0S]

I wish I could give MY boss that excuse.
I hope yours isn't reading this forum, though.

You must have plenty of wonderful toys, with the kind of work you do.

Yeah true here are a couple. We have some excellent Russian Border Guards binoculars with range finders on them. Here's an attempt to tak a piccy through them



Then there are the vehicles, and you can see me using the binoculars in this one:



And our big "toy" 31Mtr cherry picket. Great way to get strange panoramic shots. I no its a bad stitch but I was in a rush





Enjoy. (I do)

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[jankees]

n/t

 

[José Luís Malaquias]

I especially love that truck.
This is what Daniella would need to get close to her birds, LOL.
Have you tried bungee jumping out of there?
I did it once out of a similar truck. It was simply awesome.

I hope you keep posting a few pictures you take from up there.

I wish I could give MY boss that excuse.
I hope yours isn't reading this forum, though.

You must have plenty of wonderful toys, with the kind of work you do.

Yeah true here are a couple. We have some excellent Russian Border
Guards binoculars with range finders on them. Here's an attempt to
tak a piccy through them



Then there are the vehicles, and you can see me using the
binoculars in this one:



And our big "toy" 31Mtr cherry picket. Great way to get strange
panoramic shots. I no its a bad stitch but I was in a rush





Enjoy. (I do)

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Tom.
http://www.tomlast.net

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[katkison]

Oh this is a photo forum. Sorry. ;-)

Stay away from the airlines.

The responsibility, skill and years of training and experience that
go into being able to qualify for those jobs and then have to deal
with a 30 - 50% pay cuts while management walks away with millions
in their pockets, loose your house, car, ect.... just so the
general public can fly across the country for $39.00...... isn't
worth it.

That's what today's airline pilot is dealing with.

Enjoy your flight.

Try being disabled and living on SSI

 

[katkison]

Currently disabled. Normally, I detail aircraft. My own company.

 

[Kevin Bowley]

Mcse certified IT guy laid off for some time...Now I am driving a Trailer Truck {local..home daily} and quite frankly I like it better. No stress and still decent pay..
Kevin

Currently disabled. Normally, I detail aircraft. My own company.

 

[chris]

Hey man, you're preaching to the choir. I'm in that hell right now
@ AAA. Sucks don't it? I should have become a doctor.

I am a physician-OBGYN. This is the only profession that insurance company cut reimbursments to docs each year (yes each year I make less), my malpractice company left town and dropped all its clients (too many suits), a new company wants (300,000K per year-yes US$), I am on call 24/7 (no partner)-no one wants to move to the State (FL), because of the malpractice crisis and cost of insurance.
I love, my profession, but it is no longer fun to practice.

Photography helps me unwind and relax- I have an E1 and 300D that I use for various things. I also take pics of my patients (with their permission), and give them the pics and email them especially the newborns so they can email them to family-they seem to enjoy it.

Stay away from the airlines.

The responsibility, skill and years of training and experience that
go into being able to qualify for those jobs and then have to deal
with a 30 - 50% pay cuts while management walks away with millions
in their pockets, loose your house, car, ect.... just so the
general public can fly across the country for $39.00...... isn't
worth it.

That's what today's airline pilot is dealing with.

Enjoy your flight.

 

[Jettubby]

Stay away from the airlines.

The responsibility, skill and years of training and experience that
go into being able to qualify for those jobs and then have to deal
with a 30 - 50% pay cuts while management walks away with millions
in their pockets, loose your house, car, ect.... just so the
general public can fly across the country for $39.00...... isn't
worth it.

That's what today's airline pilot is dealing with.

Enjoy your flight.

 

[Jettubby]

One of the worst places to be a pilot these days is in the US. It all stems back to deregulation but during the big economic boost of the 90's, airlines hired at a record rate in this country so everyone wanted to become a professional pilot. Most didn't realise that it was much like becoming a doctor; many years of no pay just to reach that final goal of making it to a major airline where the big bucks were. So in 2001 not only were there a large amount of trained pilots but the events of 9/11, greedy managements, and the lowering economy forced a layoff of nearly 10,000 airline pilots. Most like myself had been flying more than 15years and since there were no jobs, what else are we to do? Flying airplanes certainly doesn't qualify you to do anything else. Like many companies in a recession, employees are the first to be affected because management can easily cut costs by laying off, cutting salaries, and cutting retirement and benefits. As you read in the news last year Delta and American management personel were receiving million dollar bonuses while they were cutting the pay of flight attendants making $18K a year. Pretty sick. The CEOs of most airlines are no better than the CEOs of Enron but the government won't go after those guys in fear of bad airline publicity and further hurting of the economy. Anyway....

You are exactly right. Most countries don't treat their pilots as shamefull as they do here in the US. At least in some places there is still just a little bit of respect for those that have spent their lives flying hundreds of people around at a time at 500 miles and hour and in all sorts of weather where the penalty for a mistake is death. Worst thing that can happen working in an office is that you trip over your chair. Now please don't get me wrong, pilots are not super humans. We are just people that master a trade. The difference is that we are held to such high standards that with each day you go to work you risk not only your life but your profession. If you have a bad day and fail a checkride that happens every 6 months or have even the slightest medical problem you could lose your career. If your credit gets bad, you get in trouble with the law in any way, you get more than 3 automobile speeding tickets in a lifetime, if you are human and make one little mistake in flying or in your personal life, you get canned and you may never fly again. Certainly if you ever get fired or any of the above happens no airline will EVER touch you. Essentially you have to be a perfect person. It sounds ridiculous but it's true. All that with 20 years of flying and thousands of hours and you are offered a job paying $18K a year. Mine as well work at McDonalds. I know a space shuttle commander who was laid of at American Airlines and can't find a flying job. He's only been offered flying jobs between $18K and $30K. It's a pretty sick business all the while airline managements fill their pockets with 6 & 7 figure bonuses. I absolutely LOVE flying airplanes but doing it for a living is a whole other world. That love of flying is the only reason that keeps pilots in cockpits, otherwise we'd have to be crazy to go through all that. And that is why flying is the safest transportation in the history of man. God bless to all in these trying times.