A Life Wasted
I was trained as an airline pilot by BA.
However at the end of the training I sat and thought "Do I want to earn so much money in expenses I won't even need to think about what my salary is?" "Do I really want a bunch of air hostesses nigh-on raping me?" "Do I want to sit on the flight deck of a Trident just watching the clouds roll gently by whilst being plied with coffee by the hosties (who ignore the passengers to a large extent)?"
Well, you know the answer to this story. I chose to become an IT project manager. No brainer really.
As a pilot everything is carefully planned to make your work effective and trouble free. Everything you do is backed by logic and devised by people who know what they are doing. You walk into a party and girls' knickers drop onto the floor.
By contrast, the exciting life of a project manager is full of total ****ox, lying, cheating, comforting corporate spin that is just a series of anodyne abstract nouns that make no sense at all even after hours of re-reading, people who won't do as they're told and managers who have had no training in the theory of anything so trip over like graduate intake except they're curiously ten grades higher.
No regrets obviously. Crawling along the gutter of zero status has kept me away from any sense of self respect. When I, and the Buddist monks, line up at the Pearly Gates, St Peter will beckon us to join the fast track.
If you do fly, I recommend Pilots Paradise. You get a nice plane and accomodation for a fortnight in Florida and can just go wherever you like.
I was trained as an airline pilot by BA.
However at the end of the training I sat and thought "Do I want to earn so much money in expenses I won't even need to think about what my salary is?" "Do I really want a bunch of air hostesses nigh-on raping me?" "Do I want to sit on the flight deck of a Trident just watching the clouds roll gently by whilst being plied with coffee by the hosties (who ignore the passengers to a large extent)?"
Well, you know the answer to this story. I chose to become an IT project manager. No brainer really.
As a pilot everything is carefully planned to make your work effective and trouble free. Everything you do is backed by logic and devised by people who know what they are doing. You walk into a party and girls' knickers drop onto the floor.
By contrast, the exciting life of a project manager is full of total ****ox, lying, cheating, comforting corporate spin that is just a series of anodyne abstract nouns that make no sense at all even after hours of re-reading, people who won't do as they're told and managers who have had no training in the theory of anything so trip over like graduate intake except they're curiously ten grades higher.
No regrets obviously. Crawling along the gutter of zero status has kept me away from any sense of self respect. When I, and the Buddist monks, line up at the Pearly Gates, St Peter will beckon us to join the fast track.
If you do fly, I recommend Pilots Paradise. You get a nice plane and accomodation for a fortnight in Florida and can just go wherever you like.
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