Should jtrain take recall?

SteveC said:
That's kind of sad, actually.

I'm glad the reality still hasn't set in for me yet. I suspect that I will have retired before I can even get to that point. :D
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I still absolutely love it! Sure, there are problems to be fixed, and some days are trying and challenging. But I couldn't think of another way to keep the lights on.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Bypass recall, finish the JD and go back when you're ready.

Then you can do the ultimate that we all dream about on bad days in the airline business:

"You know what, hold on... ExpressJet 2146, request taxi back to the gate"

"What's up, I didn't ask for that!"

"I am, shut your trap Skipper"

"What?"

"I'm quitting. Screw it. Stop right here on the taxiway."

"No! You're out of line"

(fuel control switches off, APU on)

"I'm not out of line, you're out of an FO!"

(cabin door opens, airstairs down..)
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All very good, except he'd probably break an ankle jumping down. No air stairs on XJT's 145s. :D
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I think the difference might be that you fly corporate, so you've probably never had a 95+ hour month or a 900 hour year. I know it was much different for me when I was flying stand-ups and only flying 30 hours a month. It felt fun again. But as soon as I returned to the full months with 90 hours and 12 hour duty days, it all just felt like a very tiring job again.
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Could very well be. We fly to a wide variety of destinations, usually get plenty of down time (often in very nice locations), get to have a fair amount of personal interaction with some interesting individuals, fly very well maintained equipment, and if I'm having a really busy year I might see 500+ hours added to my logbook.

In general I really enjoy what I do. There are days when it is work (flew out of EWR yesterday morning for example), but overall I wouldn't trade it for any reasonable alternative job.
 
SteveC said:
In general I really enjoy what I do. There are days when it is work (flew out of EWR yesterday morning for example), but overall I wouldn't trade it for any reasonable alternative job.
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I left mil flying because of the inane amount of BS required to wade through to even do the basic job at hand. It got old very quick, and I realized that my view of whats a priority and what the AFs view of what was a priority, differed widely. No room for the Old Skool way of "cut the crap and get the job done" mentality there.

So I do what I've always done.....just have multiple careers going that I devote different percentages of my time to.
 
MikeD said:
So I do what I've always done.....just have multiple careers going that I devote different percentages of my time to.
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Multiple interests = less boredom. I think it's important to have a wide variety of interests/activities in life.
 
jtrain,

I wouldn't presume to try to get into your head but I think you should consider which choice is easier to change later on - which is more easily reversible - which path would let you change your mind more easily.

I don't recall how far along you are with law school but it seems to me that getting your head back into law school after leaving would for most people be far more difficult than getting your head back into piloting.

A few years ago I was faced with a similar type of decision. I was laid off at from my job and ended up with two employment offers that were both good but pretty different from each other. I had a difficult time making the choice. So I bought a friend some lunch and asked him his advice.

"Seems to me," he said, "that there will always be another XXXX job. What's the chances that you'll have another opportunity to do YYYY?"

Among the best advice I even got.
 
jtrain,

You know my vote. I love flying, but I'd like to have the opportunity to open more doors in other fields. I think of that every time I put on my uniform and see my son tear up and ask, "daddy, you leaving again." I'd say finish the JD then go back. Either way, good for you. You got your life going in a new direction rather than moping around waiting to be recalled. Tough decision? definately.
 
Thanks for the input everybody. Id be lying if I said I didn't consider taking recall at least once a day. What gets lost in the recesses of the internets is that I love to fly airplanes, and miss the actual FLYING, but flying an rj? Meh.

I think what I really need is to bang up the pattern in a 172 before I make any decesions.
 
Well maybe within that lies your answer.

If you miss the flying but not the airlines, as a lawyer at some point I'm sure you'll have the means and time to fly GA and probably own an airplane if that is what you want.
 
Honestly John what could you possibly get from a thread like this? No one knows your situation like you do. No one knows your dreams wants and desires like you do.
People telling you stay in law school but they continue to fly at the airlines???
People telling you to go back to Expressjet but have never sat reserve at EWR.
Just as Doug says don't take investment advice from pilots, I wouldn't necessarily take advice such as this from pilots either.
 
mikecweb said:
Honestly John what could you possibly get from a thread like this? No one knows your situation like you do. No one knows your dreams wants and desires like you do.
People telling you stay in law school but they continue to fly at the airlines???
People telling you to go back to Expressjet but have never sat reserve at EWR.
Just as Doug says don't take investment advice from pilots, I wouldn't necessarily take advice such as this from pilots either.
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He's just generating forum traffic......


;)
 
I voted yes because we need you man!

Obviously you shouldn't take the recall if it meant you had to drop out of law school, so bypass is the correct choice for the first round. Ideally you would get your second recall notice just as you were graduating. Then you could choose whichever job you thought looked the most promising, or just go back to flying if there were no legal jobs on the table. I'm sure this was valuable insight :p
 
John,

Despite all of the that surrounds this industry, this is a dream, a calling...you can't give up on it....you told me once that "you have to get hungry"...and John, I'm turning the tables.....YOU HAVE TO GET HUNGRY!!!...take the recall, it's your dream to fly, don't give up...
 
I wonder if he posted the same question at the pro-law website that he frequents? Is so, what kind of responses from that side?

:D
 
I'd pass until you finished school. We have one life to live. Why just have one career??? Do as much and as many things as you can with this one shot. Diversify and you enrichen your whole life. People that do nothing but talk about flying and have no hobbies, now that's boring...
 
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