HotMamaPilot

not if you have to commute it's not!

sgrd0q

Saab, that was the smartest thing I'd heard you say. What's the matter with you – getting old and wise?

HotMamaPilot

isn't that the reason we work? i think that it is a bit of a ideal standpoint to think like that. i would say, go make money and buy your own plane and become a weekend warrior. those are the happiest people that i know......ie the peops who fly for fun AND NOT for a living.

HotMamaPilot

tell her how much more miserable she would be if she couldn't pay the phone bill or sweated the mortgage every month........now that's misery.

HotMamaPilot

wannabe.......stay just that. i made it to a good position, but i knew a higher up AND my gender DID play a role(yes freight puppy, i am a girl). if you want nice things in life, seek another career and fly for fun. this is coming from someone married to a 17 year usair pilot, who hates his career.

JoeyMeatballs

Imagine if you were to marry a 17 yr SWA Pilot.................like I said everybody's situation is different.

JoeyMeatballs

Been there, have dealt with that....................still rather do what I am doing, now........ I am not saying if I have a house and kids and I get furloughed I may not feel different, but whos to say that if I were to go around and sell mortgages for a living, I would lose that job as well? I understand that if we/when we start over again we have to start from the bottom, but this has always been the case in this industry. You are lucky, but who's to say that many regionals guys aren't leaving for airlines where they can make a good living, A lot of the CA's I have flown with recently are going to airlines like SWA, CAL, Airtran, Jet Blue, UPS. and Delta ....... I mean its not as much as a dead-end career as a lot of people on here preach that it is. If SkyHigh would of "manned" up got a job to stay current, He could of been at UPS, FedEx, or SWA by now................


PS. I understand JB and Airtran arent the best...............but you know

HotMamaPilot

TRUE, but you gotta start at the regionals, and paying the bills doesn't come easy. if your gal makes more than 88k, kudos to her because that is what it is all about. that sappy dream job that we have in our heads as a kid should stay just there..... in our heads. this society is based on money, nothing else.
you are only sucessful in THIS world, if you have money.

JoeyMeatballs

Well yes and no.............by whos standards the obnoxious girl at the bar that is wearing Jimmy Choo's and had a Dolce & Gabbana dress? Success is measured different by everyone, as a whole in this country, if you have money you are successful, no matter how sleazy, but I dont see how anybody that gets a job at a major US airline can't have nice things and be considered a success. I went to a private High School in Jersey and do you know what "success" was to those guys????????????getting a job as banker so they can blow lines all weekend long and cheat on their wives & g/f's and have a Porsche...............some may call that "success" I sure as hell don't.

tinyfuzz

SkyHigh, why is your perspective so negative? or are you being more to direct to what new ppl should keep in the back of the mind to what the future looks like? How long have you been in the aviation business? are you in a management role where you feel there's going to be some point where this rapid hiring campaign is going to flood the market sooner or should I say sooner than later. can you please justify it.