SO how is conair? Is the pilots happy?
Whats the pay like and benifits?
thanks
Conair
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Re: Conair
Conair is great....pilots is very happy...pay is not too bad considering you only work 3-4 months for it...full benefits during contract, you can pay more for year round if you like...
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Re: Conair
I was wondering if there's any Conair people out there that can comment on working that job and maintaining a relationship...
Are you basically gone for roughly 3 - 4 months and dont see your significant other at all?
Are you basically gone for roughly 3 - 4 months and dont see your significant other at all?
Re: Conair
Requiring that many hours experience, and having to work away 7 days a week for 5 months, how much does a job with Conair, or for that matter Airspray pay? is it comparable to airline salary for 12 months? or is there a need to find another gig during the off season?
I'm a long way off from even thinking about flying for money, (45hours T.T.) but it's good to know about the different career paths. requirements, and pay available.
I'm a long way off from even thinking about flying for money, (45hours T.T.) but it's good to know about the different career paths. requirements, and pay available.
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I don't work for Conair, but I'm in the biz... relationships Where to start? Choose a very understanding partner. My wife knew from the very beginning what I did for a living and that I'd spend significant amounts of time away from home. Now that we have kids, it's getting harder to be away, but on the other hand, my 'away' finances a lifestyle in a city that we otherwise might not be living in - and I get to spend 7 months of the year at home, taking care of my son.
There's a flip answer, too: by the time work rolls around in the spring, I'm so sick of my wife, and she of me, that I can't wait to get out of the house and go to work, and she can't wait to get rid of me. in August, at the end of the season, we miss each other so much that it hurts, and we can't wait to get back home!
WRT the money question, I'm not making what I could at WJ, for example, but I feel that I am adequately compensated for what I do - and enough so that I don't have to work year-round. There's also the reliability factor - every airline pilot that I know of has taken a layoff from his/her job in the past - I'd like to think that I'm somewhat immune to that now. I guess that more money would always be nice, but do I really want for anything that I need? No. I have taken winter jobs in the past, but they are, generally speaking, a pain in the ass. All of the weekends and evenings that I spent away from home in the summer are paid back in time off in the winter - and now I go and take a job that keeps me away from home even more, and on someone else's schedule? No going skiing when I want, or riding my bike, or kayaking etc... gotta work, because the company that I committed to wants me to.
Now, I've been in for a few years, and I daresay that at the bottom of the payscale, you might have to work in the winter - but after 4 or so years, you can probably afford not to.
Does that help?
There's a flip answer, too: by the time work rolls around in the spring, I'm so sick of my wife, and she of me, that I can't wait to get out of the house and go to work, and she can't wait to get rid of me. in August, at the end of the season, we miss each other so much that it hurts, and we can't wait to get back home!
WRT the money question, I'm not making what I could at WJ, for example, but I feel that I am adequately compensated for what I do - and enough so that I don't have to work year-round. There's also the reliability factor - every airline pilot that I know of has taken a layoff from his/her job in the past - I'd like to think that I'm somewhat immune to that now. I guess that more money would always be nice, but do I really want for anything that I need? No. I have taken winter jobs in the past, but they are, generally speaking, a pain in the ass. All of the weekends and evenings that I spent away from home in the summer are paid back in time off in the winter - and now I go and take a job that keeps me away from home even more, and on someone else's schedule? No going skiing when I want, or riding my bike, or kayaking etc... gotta work, because the company that I committed to wants me to.
Now, I've been in for a few years, and I daresay that at the bottom of the payscale, you might have to work in the winter - but after 4 or so years, you can probably afford not to.
Does that help?
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Ass, Licence, Job. In that order.
Happiness is V1 at Thompson!
Ass, Licence, Job. In that order.
Re: Conair
I've known a few people who worked for Conair, and I never heard any of them complain. Some worked in the off season, some went to school, some did nothing. Some did all three at different times depending on their mood that year. Some also rented accomodation in the town they were based and took their family with them for the time the kids were out of school. However, that was a number of years ago and it could all be different now.
