A few weeks back, my flying instructor related a terrifying thing—a full time grade 2 instructor’s pay is somewhere in the range of $32,000 to $34,000.
And, while I’d certainly like to continue flying for the joy of the activity itself, it seems a tad too selfish (and frankly wasteful) to do so when the opportunity cost is so fantastically high.
Hence I’ve decided to give it a (permanent) rest. I definitely enjoyed it while it lasted, and am happy to say that I’ve spent a significant amount of time up in the air flying a plane both with an instructor and on my own, and while I’m a tad annoyed that I haven’t gotten to GFPT standard (where I can take passengers while going solo), and was indeed just about to go on my area solo, there’s no time like the present for directing my energy into something else that I want to continue with.
In other news, I’ve gotten back into Akari in a big way, and look forward to making more time for it in the future.