Great job despite the drawbacks - Pilot US Air Force Employee Review

5.0
19 July 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Many great people to work with from all walks of life -Some excellent locations -Ridiculous benefits package, better by far than anything you'll see in the civilian world -30 days paid leave a year -Flying airplanes is fun -Obvious and predictable opportunities for advancement -Deployments can be fun

Cons

-No opportunity to affect career path of the lousy managers and coworkers you sometimes get -Some really awful locations -Health care, though free and plentiful, is often performed by amateurs whose goal is to get you back to work, not to get you healthy -Your time is not your own--frequent long hours both in the air and on the ground, and leave can be canceled if required by the needs of the Air Force, which always come first -Difficult to truly set yourself apart from peers; advancement virtually guaranteed up to a certain point and beyond that it requires politicking, which other people have already done better than you -Deployments can also suck

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Every extra dollar you attempt to make beyond your rank will require more work than you will be paid to do. The real payoff monetarily you get from competing in the military will come in to play during your post life. Confidence, courage, accountability, etc are not standard attributes in people at all.

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