High Paying and Successful??
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DeuceOfAces
Well-Known Member
Well, a captain at any legacy makes $100k+, more than the vast majority of working Americans. But if you're talking to the CEO of your airline, you're relatively dirt poor... So, whether or not it's a "high-paying" job depends on who you're talking to.
Software crashes, rewrite code, reboot.
Airliner crashes, everyone is dead. CNN. AP news wire. Lawyers. Grieving family members. Airline execs running for cover. FAA... not our fault. NTSB statements. Senate hearings. Finger pointing in every direction looking for someone to sue. Nothing will bring them back.
Yeah, I see why IT guys are so stressed. Not. :drool:
Airliner crashes, everyone is dead. CNN. AP news wire. Lawyers. Grieving family members. Airline execs running for cover. FAA... not our fault. NTSB statements. Senate hearings. Finger pointing in every direction looking for someone to sue. Nothing will bring them back.
Yeah, I see why IT guys are so stressed. Not. :drool:
SpiraMirabilis
Possible Subversive
Look at the comments.
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Nov 25, 2009
Software Development(SDLC) is sressful ! When important or urgent projects pile up, one may sleep no more than 3 hrs a day for 2-3 months."
Yeaa because designing software is soo stressful compared to having lives responsible
Ummm... it is. More stressful. How stressful is flying an airplane? For the most part it is exactly the opposite of stressful. Very rarely it may get very stressful, but even then once you get the ground the stress is gone. You never take your work home with you. Of course, depending on what air carrier you work for you may never go home, which would provide stress. But the job itself? It's not something I think about when I am in bed at night, worrying about deadlines, etc.
Good news: if there are deaths the pilots are almost always dead too. So at least you don't have to deal with those pesky lawyers. No offense midlife
buddabreath1
New Member
I see the same pilots crashing a few times a week so with all those trials, and dealing with the NTSB I see it can be stresssful
Get over it people, most jobs are stressful when you f*uck up the flow of the operation. Keep comparing the worst pilot ups to someone elses daily routine and the pilots win everytime.
A-300F4-622R
Well-Known Member
Look at the comments.
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Nov 25, 2009
Software Development(SDLC) is sressful ! When important or urgent projects pile up, one may sleep no more than 3 hrs a day for 2-3 months."
Yeaa because designing software is soo stressful compared to having lives responsible
What if the software you are designing will go toward saving someone's life? Pilots aren't as special and important as you think they are.
tjvpa28
Well-Known Member
The software isn't saving anyone's life at the moment, nor do the software engineers have lives in their hands.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Yeah, seriously, what they just sit down, type out a few lines of code, talk around the water cooler, and go home and bang their wives while pilots wrestle with elemental nature saving countless lives every second of the day.
You know all of those opinionated losers who post on various blogs about how overpaid and underworked pilots are? That's you (at this particular moment).
You know all of those opinionated losers who post on various blogs about how overpaid and underworked pilots are? That's you (at this particular moment).
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Are you serious? Bus drivers have countless lives in their hands, too. Give the melodrama a rest, Maverick.
A-300F4-622R
Well-Known Member
You mean the software engineer that wrote the code for the autopilot has the passenger's lives in their hands!
pullup
Homewrecker
Like software that runs most modern airplanes? Software that runs subway systems (hell, most transit systems)? The software that allows a doctor 4,000 miles away to do surgery by robot? The software that runs satellites and keeps them from falling to earth? The software that allows fire suppresion systems to activate in a fire? The software that controls ABS systems? Or airbag systems? The software that controls life support systems?
Shall I go on?
tjvpa28
Well-Known Member
All software is tested countless times and proven to be safe and reliable well before it is ever used. All my point was is that the job of a software engineer isn't akin to that of an ER surgeon or pilot...or bus driver (and no I don't think what pilots and bus drivers do is the same as the ER surgeon).
PGT
Well-Known Member
Ok point taken but when you're writing software you're sitting in a nice and comfortable office. Working in the banking industry I see people freaking out all the time but lives are directly in their hands.
E_Dawg
Moderator
Flying is probably one of the easiest and least stress jobs I've ever had. You don't take work home with you. The only stressful thing about it is how one small mistake - when you least expect it - can lead to losing your job (busting an altitude, paperwork errors, etc.) It's more a CYA job these days with all the feds looking in our direction. We keep hearing how the FAA continues to go after seemingly trivial things, like crossing the 'i' when it should have been dotted.
In any case, though, making fast food sandwiches was more stressful than being an airline pilot. And they both paid about the same
In any case, though, making fast food sandwiches was more stressful than being an airline pilot. And they both paid about the same
pullup
Homewrecker
All pilots are tested countless times also, and still fail basic skills from time to time. Most software have glitches and bugs until it is phased out, they never get them all. But using that logic then a pilot should have zero worries and stress because his FMC, FADEC, autopilot, etc are all flawless and he will encounter nothing to stress about. There is a reason they allow pilots to override the computers and not the other way around.
Bus driver or pilot crashes and multiple lives are lost. ER surgeon fails, 1 life is lost.
How would someone in the banking industry freak out and have lives directly in their hands? Money? It's all electronic now-a-days anyway. Bankers work in temperature and humidity controlled environments from 9-5 soooo not seeing the big whoop here. Both my brothers are in the banking industry and neither has ulcers yet from the stress.