Any pilots in here?

[Homeslice]

Went up with a chopper instructor once a long long time ago......Seemed fun, but you have to spend about $50K to get trained, and then the only job you could get afterwards is a CFI, making beans........And after a couple years doing that, you would have to find odd jobs with oil rigs, tourism firms, crop sprayers, photographers, etc. And pick up and move every 6 mos. or so. The only chopper pilots who have steady "permanent" jobs with benefits are ambulance, police, and corporate pilots.......And those jobs go to 50-60 year olds with tens of thousands of flight hours.

Or at least that was the story given to me by the CFI's, who probably wanted less competition