Russian Pilot Compares His Life Before And After The Pandemic As He Takes On Different Jobs

Throughout history, work has been characterized as a central activity for human sociability and of course, for most, it was highly considered an essential part of life.

Therefore, for a lot of people, work culture has changed tremendously throughout the course of the worldwide pandemic. The jobs market is now flooded with people that have been made redundant and are looking for new jobs to settle in.

Roman Savin is a Russian airline pilot who currently lives in Lithuania, and unfortunately is no different from most of the people who were forced to look for another job.

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Roman has shared two of his photos on a Russian social media platform called Pikabu, which made him go viral

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One photo was taken in 2019, the other in 2020. Through them, Savin wanted to show and compare how his life changed before and after the start of the pandemic.

The first photo shows a very happy Roman posing in front of a mirror in an elevator, dressed in his pilot’s uniform

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While this photo shows him in another elevator, now with a completely different profession too

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Of course, having seen the post, it was self-explanatory that the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible for him to work as a pilot, and that was the main cause of him having to change his job temporarily. But… well, not quite, as Roman explained to Bored Panda what was happening in his life.

“I’m a 23-year-old guy, and I worked as a pilot for the past 3 years. As you probably know, the pandemic has brought the aviation industry to historic minimums”

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“Last year, I used to fly 90-100 hours a month during the high summer seasons and this year, I have a total of 140 hours for the whole year. I keep working as an airline pilot, as my company still has some flights, mostly charters, actually, and I average about 1 flight a month, meaning I have 30 more days to spare.”

Roman assured us that not all was bad, even if he was forced to temporarily work different jobs

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“I started to work in the aviation spare parts shop as a sales agent (I work from home) and on weekends, I work as a food-delivery guy. Frankly, I quite like it.

After a week of work in front of your computer, you get to go around the city, see people, and listen to your favorite music while delivering food.”

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