Adola

What's the Aramaic or Ancient Greek word for "whomsoever"?

SkyHigh

All I am saying is that it is not good for a marriage to be gone most of the time. It should be considered as a huge consequence of taking any job that takes you away for long durations.

SkyHigh

Sideshow Bob

Nor is it good for a marriage to be so bitter about losing a job due to forces beyond your control (other than maybe settling for an underfunded 757 operator when better jobs were available) and then spending half of one's alleged happy home life on an internet board where you no longer have any real connection other than resentment, bitterness and sour grapes. But yet here you are thousands of posts later.

How soon will you give up on what you're doing now and then haunt their internet boards telling them to give up too? By then you'll have it mastered.

SkyHigh

Man you are reaching. All I do is to point out some of the less talked about sides of aviation. If the reader takes it as negative then it is their decision to do so.

Take being away from home for example. To a 18 year old being on the road 2/3rds of the time sounds like a great deal. See the world ,,, right? To a father and husband that sounds like a prison sentence. Where is the productive value in sitting in a hotel room for most of your life? How does that add to your family harmony when one of its members is gone for a majority of the time?

There are benefits to the 9 to 5 life. Most people take 9 to 5 jobs because it places their lives in sync with others in their life. They all have the same days off and enjoy the holidays together.

I am here to help people who would otherwise only get a part of the story. It is true that there are some not so fun results of living on the road. If you want to take my positions as negative then maybe you have some unresolved issues to deal with?

Skyhigh

seaav8tor

Most people realize very quickly that a pro athlete or successful actor is a very long shot against a million wannabes. It’s not quite so bad in commercial aviation, but the odds of making it from PPL to the left seat of a wide body, and not having your airline go broke, not having your pension go broke, not having your marriage go south, not having your kids getting into trouble because you weren’t around, are so bad if you really got your arms around it, you wouldn't do it. Of course the 1% who make it will stand on their pedestal and say “Look at me”. They have a good reason to be proud. They made it against the very long odds. Good for them. They should be proud. It’s quite an accomplishment.

SkyHigh accurately tells it like it is. Most people don’t want to hear or accept the truth. It hurts.

jayray2

I cannot deny your logic. However, I can say that you are probably posting in the wrong area/wrong board. It seems to me about 95% of the people here are professional pilots and thus have already figured out what you are preaching. It doesn't take long. You'd be better spending your time by posting on one of the flight training boards. I can't fault you for posting here though, I get enjoyment watching people trying to duke it out on a internet message board.

Sideshow Bob

Oh yeah...3,576 posts on a website 99% populated by people who actually are seriously involved in the theme by someone who gave up then rationalizes giving up by telling those 99% to give up to isn't "reaching". You're Bono curing world hunger.

I must say though, you're like the fatal accident on the side of the road...it's difficult not to look.

AAflyer

Bingo!

AAflyer,

The fact that he says he is here purely for humanitarian reasons is laughable at best.

Sideshow Bob

There are benefits to the 9 to 5 life. Most people take 9 to 5 jobs because it places their lives in sync with others in their life. They all have the same days off and enjoy the holidays together.

I am here to help people who would otherwise only get a part of the story. It is true that there are some not so fun results of living on the road. If you want to take my positions as negative then maybe you have some unresolved issues to deal with?

Skyhigh[/QUOTE]

Your entertainment value is definitely superior...not unlike watching movies like 'Snatch" or even "Animal House" for the tenth time, re-reading your post(s) is a virtual cornucopia of contradiction and silliness.

You should see the examples of the "9 to 5 life" you tout as some shining example of family life out here in CA...pffft. In corporate America 9 to 5 actually means 6 to 8 for many, many in the middle/upper echelons of the work-world. I know scores at my kid's school who don't see their kids in the morning, see them for an hour (maybe) at night and then either shuttle their kids to/from social/sporting events much or all of Saturday and then maybe go golfing with their work buddies at least half of Sunday. This goes on for typically 49/52 weeks of the year as most have 3 weeks of "vacation" if they're lucky. Then at work they have to put the blinders on to not see the 20-something olds dressed to the nines trying to snag the middle aged executive for their second or third marriages getting nookie in the copy room or a hotel room at lunch.

Oh yeah baby I'll trade in my often 12-15 straight days off (24/7 at home if I choose) during the majority of the year and my 4-6 straight weeks off in a row twice a year (using two 2 week vacation blocks that wipe out trips on my bidline-with full pay) for that life. And there are thousands like me at Fed Ex and UPS doing the same, so it's not that rare in this business.

You're looking like a Dr, Phil gone bad with your analysis (isn't he getting divorced and sued for $30 million by his soon to be ex, and he's home all the time), but whatever makes you happy while your new industry is tanking before your eyes. How long before you quit it too?

seaav8tor

See, up on the pedestal "Look at me!".