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Do a search on ramen noodles... I though you were replying with a stupid response. There was a post I found and that was interesting. Thanks for your respone bigway. $50,000 is only $10,000 more than i'm on now and if that in $NZD, so minus approx 10% off that + taxes and you probaly have about $700 a week. It is really something to think about for me now I guess, if I want to have the life of a skydiving professional on $700 a week or work my way up the cooprate ladder and end up in a fairly good paying job with all the goodies in life and keep skydiving as a hobby... Of course working the "desk" job always looking forward to the weekend becasue office jobs are evil and i'll probaly get a job that is "ok" not something I love to do. Ehhh smeh... Thats life, thats for the info people.

Do a search on ramen noodles... Didn't bring up anything to usefull....

That sounds awsome. It would be an awsome life if I could do what you have done, and I know I can and it will be alot of hard work. But it will be well worth it. Just out of curiosity how much would you make a year in $NZD? I can do the course for $7,785 NZD as i'm an Aussie so thats good. Regardless of what happens I believe I will still end up there as there is so much good feedback from everyone about it. I'd be great if you could answer these last few questions as your a graduate of the course and are what I want to become. Where did you end up in Australia, what dropzone? What did you do there, fly camera for the summer? Thanks mate. I can see your not making it all up also and it's all true as the dimploma website says "Rhys is now in Tanzania.". What's it like in that part of Africa? It's the first time i've heard of the country.

Thanks for the input. It brings a bit of reality to the situation. I think I will just keep it as a hobby and not something that puts food in my stomach. Thanks for the input guys, guess it's time to look into which degree I will be doing next year... Or find some sort of job I love that can get me a decent living.

Ok, so lets take the family part out of the picture and answer the question that way. I'd love to hear you comments people, thanks.

Ok, first up I am going to say that yes I have done a search on the skydiving diploma in NZ and skydiving as a career, search the web also. But I would like some more recent feedback on it? I also came across this article and it put a bit of reality on the topic - http://en.allexperts.com/q/Skydiving-w-Parachutes-1652/career.htm In this forum I can across someone who said they work in NZ (i'm in Australia) and they pay there tandem masters $50NZ a jump, camera, $65 a jump and handi cams $40nz a jump and that seems good in reality but what annual wage would you really expect from that being a contractor and not gettng any thing like 401K/super annuation paid also. In prespective it seems like an awsome thing to do, to take skydiving career, but in reality it's not looking that good. I was just hoping some people could shed some light on the topic for me, there is the phrase "find a job you love and you will never work another day in your life" but there there is the reality of possibly only earning $40,000 (if that or possibly only a little more) a year before tax with not superanuation/401k and trying to support a family in the future. If you guys can sehd some light on this it would be great, and if you are a tandem master/camera mand/DZO at the moment that would be even better. Thanks guys