surreal1221
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Screaming_Emu said:
Extremely.
How long were you at the regionals and where did you go from there?
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Extremely.
jtrain609
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All I heard was "more pay and benefits."
skyw82
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I'm more of a quality of life person. I have a certain number for pay and once I reach it I would be OK making less if I worked less.
Seggy
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You can always go back to a regional if you think your QOL will be better there!
Seggy
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I vehemently disagree with this.
Folks, do get in the mindset that things get better, they do!
Snuggle
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I disagree. For me, everthing did get better. Like a LOT better too.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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If QOL is the goal, then the legacies are the place to be. Move to base, bid reserve on the most overstaffed equipment, and sit back and get paid to relax while flying 100 hours a year.
Baronman
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Things do get better however some people will always be miserable.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Airlines are airlines, if that was the point. They are all an assembly of people and airplanes designed to make money while providing transportation. The changes are, in my view:
(1) how much you are compensated for your pilot service, and
(2) the people that you work with.
Not to sound like a Delta ad, but the airplanes really are largely the same, and the differences between where I work and Widget World are (1) how much I'm paid and (2) the folks I work with*. The issues that Captain Dad and I have are roughly the same, but he's paid a lot more for them. There is a certain amount of "welp, this is the job," that comes with working in transportation: the various demands that are put on you can be heavy. It works for some people. For some it really doesn't.
I would also add that this is a different job when you commute. I get home, I walk to BART and 50 minutes later I'm walking to my house. This is far and away different from getting done and jumping into an airline seat for 2-5 hours, then surface transportation. (Source: experience.)
* And I really really like my coworkers here for the most part. The average feeling I have towards them is "This is going to be an awesome trip to the frozen tundra, let's enjoy it!"
Yep.
That's my line.
And, um, only sort of a choice. When they move the airplane out from under you, it's a little different.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Like @Seggy said, that's a choice, my friend. I bailed out of the industry because I wasn't willing to commute or to move. If you've decided to commute, then you sacrifice some QOL in exchange for being able to live wherever you want. Choices, choices.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
It is, and it isn't.
On the one hand, I accept assignment to any base and equipment in our system just by coming into work, in accordance with The Agreement. On the other hand, you'd better believe I'm going to wail just a little bit if suddenly I am displaced to Chicago. (Then I'll probably move in lieu of wedging into an airline seat for hours on end, and then discover how cheap the Midwest really is.)
It's more complicated if you're a family man or have other circumstances, and it's very different (as it was in your case) when they move the airplane out from under you. Uprooting kids from schools and communities is a lousy thing to have to do, for instance.
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
Sure. To me, it's a Hobson's choice: the radically different nature of this job when you don't commute, plus my lack of attachments, makes it so very easy to chase airplanes. (And to a lot of folks with families, I think it's similarly Hobsonian.)
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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You realize that people in most professions do this on a semi-regular basis and have no other option, right?
Autothrust Blue
”…trusting ze process…”
I suppose I don't, actually.
Most all of the "professionals" that I know who are admitted to practice various things in California are here, and are staying. This might be the result of my living in the bubble that is the People's Republic of Kalifornia, though.