Wilbur ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #1 Posted July 24, 2021 https://www.avweb.com/features/careers-features/aviation-a-post-retirement-career/ This is pre-pandemic but the demand is going to be much higher post-pandemic. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #2 Posted July 24, 2021 No thank you! You can have the air and zephyr can have the sea. I am sticking to good old terra firma. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tizeye Posted July 24, 2021 Share #3 Posted July 24, 2021 I thought this was the dark side… 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted July 24, 2021 29 minutes ago, Tizeye said: I thought this was the dark side… It all goes hand in hand. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JerrySTL ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Popular Post Share #5 Posted July 24, 2021 I guess that I could get my A&P license... With all these Help Wanted signs everywhere, sometimes I feel a little guilty that an able-bodied person like myself isn't working. Fortunately I'm still able-minded enough to stay retired. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #6 Posted July 24, 2021 6 hours ago, JerrySTL said: I guess that I could get my A&P license... With all these Help Wanted signs everywhere, sometimes I feel a little guilty that an able-bodied person like myself isn't working. Fortunately I'm still able-minded enough to stay retired. My hero cannot go back to work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BR46 Posted July 24, 2021 Popular Post Share #7 Posted July 24, 2021 6 hours ago, JerrySTL said: I guess that I could get my A&P license... With all these Help Wanted signs everywhere, sometimes I feel a little guilty that an able-bodied person like myself isn't working. Fortunately I'm still able-minded enough to stay retired. Last time I was at Road America I had 3 job offers from machine shops to race teams. I said no..... I'm retired 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted July 24, 2021 Share #8 Posted July 24, 2021 9 hours ago, Wilbur said: https://www.avweb.com/features/careers-features/aviation-a-post-retirement-career/ This is pre-pandemic but the demand is going to be much higher post-pandemic. It's not that I don't like flying I just enjoy flying closer to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted July 24, 2021 Share #9 Posted July 24, 2021 9 hours ago, Wilbur said: This is pre-pandemic but the demand is going to be much higher post-pandemic. Years ago... I seriously consider getting an pilots license. I even went on 1 or 2 flights (IIRC $50) in small planes and got to fly (while in the air) for a while, before enrolling in class. One thing I noticed during my flights was there are no exit signs, and just about ALL of the visual landmarks I could use (or familiar with) for 'where am I" were gone. Things sure look different up in a plane. I figured navigation would be very important to learn. I purchased a several of the books needed for the training, etc.. I started to lean more about navigation. I used MS Flight simulator (I know it's not the same) and changed all of the settings for expert, and started to fly and learn how to navigate. Many hours later... I had a good idea about how to not get lost. Then my engineering brain took over... and I estimated the total cost for the classes, flight time, cost for part ownership of a plane, fuel, insurance, maintenance cost, etc... I figured I could buy a LOT of airline tickets for the cost of getting my pilots license and flying a small plane. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted July 24, 2021 Share #10 Posted July 24, 2021 11 hours ago, Wilbur said: https://www.avweb.com/features/careers-features/aviation-a-post-retirement-career/ This is pre-pandemic but the demand is going to be much higher post-pandemic. I decided my post retirement "career" would be doing things I didn't have time to do while working - like learning to play the piano. I also want to do creative writing and can take courses for free at my Alma Mater, UMBC, which is a 20 minute drive from my home. But I've got a lot of background to make where, for piano, I could already play guitar and read sheet music. So maybe I'll do violin next - which would let me play solo, in a classical string quarter, or fiddle in a county/rock band. Louise Hildreth-Grasso, a cool English woman who has played viola in the Hamburg and London Symphony Orchestras and now teaches violin and viola at Johns Hopkins U's world-class music college, The Peabody Institute, taught me in a 4-lesson into to violin class and said that, with my piano background, she could have me more than ready to join a band within 3 years of lessons. So I'm thinking about it for the Spring 2022 Semester, assuming the COVID numbers are way down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 24, 2021 Share #12 Posted July 24, 2021 A most curious coincidence you should post this... Just this morning a pilot training video happened to pop up on one of the cable channels: 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted July 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said: A most curious coincidence you should post this... Just this morning a pilot training video happened to pop up on one of the cable channels: That was my training video as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted July 25, 2021 Share #14 Posted July 25, 2021 Can I do the job remotely? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted July 25, 2021 Share #15 Posted July 25, 2021 I am tired of having Einstein around. Maybe I will send in his resume. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team scooter Posted July 25, 2021 Share #16 Posted July 25, 2021 The term dark side has it's own meaning and a huge debate for us motorcyclists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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