I had a beer today
09-30-2011, 10:01 PM
#35
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Joined APC: Nov 2006
Posts: 250
When are people going to understand that your hourly rate has much less to do with how much you make than you think. Your contract and work rules are the driving force. You can have a guy that makes $90/hour with great work rules that makes more than a guy making $100/hour with horrible work rules. Negotiations would go in pilots favor much more if they weren't so obsessed with the hourly rate. I just flew with a senior guy who makes $92/hour that made around $115k last year.....not because he makes over $100/hour but because we have pretty good work rules allowing him to be more productive by working less. Pay you can get back, work rules not so much.
10-01-2011, 12:31 AM
#36
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: CRJ CA
Posts: 72
Been a regional FO for about 4 years, on and off reserve. It's the best job I've ever had, but I mostly enjoyed the work I had before as well. I hope you find something that makes you happy. Enjoying what you have isn't about settling for less. You should pursue something greater but also live in the present and try to be happy wherever you are.
I work with a few people who try to be unhappy. They look for things to go wrong and they make mountains of of mole hills, if scheduling calls and makes a change they're ****ed. Get ****ed if they ask you to do something unsafe of illegal, otherwise it's not that big a deal.
I hope it was a micro beer. Better to get fired for one of those than a Bud.
I work with a few people who try to be unhappy. They look for things to go wrong and they make mountains of of mole hills, if scheduling calls and makes a change they're ****ed. Get ****ed if they ask you to do something unsafe of illegal, otherwise it's not that big a deal.
I hope it was a micro beer. Better to get fired for one of those than a Bud.
10-01-2011, 02:38 AM
#37
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: FO - 757/767
Posts: 1,228
When are people going to understand that your hourly rate has much less to do with how much you make than you think. Your contract and work rules are the driving force. You can have a guy that makes $90/hour with great work rules that makes more than a guy making $100/hour with horrible work rules. Negotiations would go in pilots favor much more if they weren't so obsessed with the hourly rate. I just flew with a senior guy who makes $92/hour that made around $115k last year.....not because he makes over $100/hour but because we have pretty good work rules allowing him to be more productive by working less. Pay you can get back, work rules not so much.
But, I could see a sim instructor living at the school house making 100 k, but not a line pilot.
10-01-2011, 03:41 AM
#38
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Joined APC: Oct 2008
Position: 1986 LeBaron Convertable
Posts: 439
Been a regional FO for about 4 years, on and off reserve. It's the best job I've ever had, but I mostly enjoyed the work I had before as well. I hope you find something that makes you happy. Enjoying what you have isn't about settling for less. You should pursue something greater but also live in the present and try to be happy wherever you are.
I work with a few people who try to be unhappy. They look for things to go wrong and they make mountains of of mole hills, if scheduling calls and makes a change they're ****ed. Get ****ed if they ask you to do something unsafe of illegal, otherwise it's not that big a deal.
I hope it was a micro beer. Better to get fired for one of those than a Bud.
I work with a few people who try to be unhappy. They look for things to go wrong and they make mountains of of mole hills, if scheduling calls and makes a change they're ****ed. Get ****ed if they ask you to do something unsafe of illegal, otherwise it's not that big a deal.
I hope it was a micro beer. Better to get fired for one of those than a Bud.
10-01-2011, 06:13 AM
#39
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Joined APC: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,498
10-01-2011, 06:17 AM
#40
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Posts: 1,498
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