I have crisis fatigue. I have been so frustrated and angry for the last decade. If everything is in crisis then what's the fucking point, I'm just going to live my life and take care of my family.
It's ok to stop watching the news, stop reading the news, and stop engaging with social media. These things are very bad for your mental health. Detox from the Cortisol merry-go-round.
Get back to single track tasks. Read books again, paper ones. Do some stuff that will take weeks or months to pay off, like growing herbs and vegetables. Detox from the instant gratification dopamine merry-go-round.
Practice meditation. Just start with 5 minutes a day, breath-focus or square breathing meditation.
The advice I read when starting flight training was to keep a backup career choice open in case a medical issue prevents you from flying. Well, by the time I'd reached the point of choosing whether to do flight instructor training I was making enough in tech that taking a pay cut for years as a flight instructor, then years more of a pay cut at a regional airline, made it an easier choice to have flying remain only a fun hobby.
A big part was work-life balance; a decade or two of lowered seniority, pay, and less ideal schedules is about how long pilots can expect it'll take to be captain of a wide-body jet for a major airline. I currently work from home and learned I do actually prefer learning about technology every day. Much of commercial flying is more similar to being a bus driver in the sky, while also being vigilant for the rare occasions when the plane tries to kill you.
actually, air travel is basically a gimmick part of civil aviation economy. it generates a shitton of cash but it is peanuts compared to money generated by trade logistics with those gigantic planes.
Somehow rather, people are still fucking flying. The whole month where news covered that helicopter that crashed into the plane full of people and people are still fucking flying. Like WTF? What are you people not getting?
13 Comments
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 344d
Shame it's so expensive. My lessons are $260 an hour.
MakingWork@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 343d
I want to be a pilot, but it's too expensive.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d
How many hours does it take to go from 0 to airline pilot?
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
Sorry. 1500 minimum.
Varying9125@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 344d
I have crisis fatigue. I have been so frustrated and angry for the last decade. If everything is in crisis then what's the fucking point, I'm just going to live my life and take care of my family.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d
There is too much happening that you cant change.
It's ok to stop watching the news, stop reading the news, and stop engaging with social media. These things are very bad for your mental health. Detox from the Cortisol merry-go-round.
Get back to single track tasks. Read books again, paper ones. Do some stuff that will take weeks or months to pay off, like growing herbs and vegetables. Detox from the instant gratification dopamine merry-go-round.
Practice meditation. Just start with 5 minutes a day, breath-focus or square breathing meditation.
You will be okay.
CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 343d
The advice I read when starting flight training was to keep a backup career choice open in case a medical issue prevents you from flying. Well, by the time I'd reached the point of choosing whether to do flight instructor training I was making enough in tech that taking a pay cut for years as a flight instructor, then years more of a pay cut at a regional airline, made it an easier choice to have flying remain only a fun hobby.
MakingWork@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 343d
Captains can make over $300,000. I guess you decided that the pay cut wasn't worth it even long term?
CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 342d
A big part was work-life balance; a decade or two of lowered seniority, pay, and less ideal schedules is about how long pilots can expect it'll take to be captain of a wide-body jet for a major airline. I currently work from home and learned I do actually prefer learning about technology every day. Much of commercial flying is more similar to being a bus driver in the sky, while also being vigilant for the rare occasions when the plane tries to kill you.
MakingWork@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 342d
That makes sense.
Unfortunate that it takes so long to build a career in flying when you need another career to get into the pilot career. Huge obstacle.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 342d
How about "less flying"? If they actually had to pay taxes on aviation fuel, there would be no pilot crisis.
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 342d
actually, air travel is basically a gimmick part of civil aviation economy. it generates a shitton of cash but it is peanuts compared to money generated by trade logistics with those gigantic planes.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 344d
Somehow rather, people are still fucking flying. The whole month where news covered that helicopter that crashed into the plane full of people and people are still fucking flying. Like WTF? What are you people not getting?