Airline Pilots and Starting A Business

When I was learning to fly I always wondered why it was such a joke about airline pilots starting a business. Well here I sit working on my many business ideas as an airline pilot.

It is sad in a way that my income as a regional airline captain can't pay for the lifestyle that educated professionals work for, but in a way it is a blessing. I love working on my ideas and dream about he freedom they will afford me someday. It might even make me rich and have the kind of time off that I want to spend with my family.

Not to mention if my ideas do well it will give me much more security then the airlines can. That is not what many people think of a small business. Many people often refer to a small business as risky. Well, being an airline pilot is very risky these days. I invested all this time and money to become what I thought was a professional that would get paid a good income and have job security. That is not the case in the airlines today.

Like I said, I think one of my ideas will take off and I will make being an airline pilot a part time job. When management decides they need to ruin the company and make the pilots work for nothing then I hope to have other options and I can walk away. That is really what it is today, a part time job with a full time responsibility.