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MikeD said:
The 121 job is boring as crap, as far as flying jobs go. But, that’s what it should be. It shouldn’t be exciting, in the way we know excitement. That kind of excitement gets pax worried, so to the extent it can be avoided, all the better.

The other pilots are fine to fly with, for the most part. Cool stuff is hearing the full, first hand stories, on things like how a simple thought of making approaches into JNU easier, became an idea, to an individual assignment along with a couple other pilots, to an in-house TERPS design, to an operational test and evaluation, to a certification, to Delta Air Lines trying to steal it for themselves, to the beginning of an individual company in order to design these and more cool avionics to sell to industry, to where things are now. That kind of history talk from the guy(s) who lived it from start to finish, is worth its weight in gold. Something one can’t get from anywhere or anyone else.
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Which is also fun, since you are living knee deep in our old old guys. I agree, it should be chill, and nothing should be exciting if you are doing it right. There is literally nothing interesting about SEA-DFW unless you really go out of your way. Side note, I'm thinking about making a channel where I just endlessly mock these idiotic 20-30 yr old new guys who think they need to have a channel where they show you "First flight on the A330 to FRANCE!!!!" I think there must be in excess of 1000 such channels now. I can't imagine being that desperate for attention.
 
///AMG said:
Which is also fun, since you are living knee deep in our old old guys. I agree, it should be chill, and nothing should be exciting if you are doing it right. There is literally nothing interesting about SEA-DFW unless you really go out of your way. Side note, I'm thinking about making a channel where I just endlessly mock these idiotic 20-30 yr old new guys who think they need to have a channel where they show you "First flight on the A330 to FRANCE!!!!" I think there must be in excess of 1000 such channels now. I can't imagine being that desperate for attention.
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think of their perspective, though

if thats the most exciting intense thing to happen in your flying career, what’s that say about you? I feel bad for most influencers
 
Roger Roger said:
I never thought I would but I turned into one of those guys for whom GA just seems like too much work and stress. I’ll freely admit my time in AK 135 seeing all the crazy ways • can go sideways probably influenced that. Maybe if I ever move back to the flatlands I could see something to hop around low and slow on a CAVU day. IFR in anything I could afford to own/rent? No thanks.
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I had the same experience when I got back into GA flying during the COVID break. More work and stress than I do at work! Some flights were fun and I can appreciate the freedom feel @ChasenSFO was describing, but when I add in the expense of it all, right now its a no for me dawg.
 
Roger Roger said:
Some of it is definitely getting maudlin coming up on the 1 year anniversary of clocking out for the last time, as well as the commuting grind wearing at me. But that was well and truly the only fun adult job I’ve had. Air taxi was fun when it was fun but mostly it was the kind of fun you have when you and your coworkers are surviving crappy work conditions and perpetually doing dumb • and not dying. This has its moments but the best thing is the paycheck and making the most of layovers. The flying is fun too, but I’m having a real hard time adjusting to working with a different random weirdo every 4 days and forgetting the A’s name the second we set the brake. Coming from flying with the same 2-3 FOs and same med crews all the time. I miss showing up right at 7 on the first day of day shift, preflighting the jet, moving in for the 2 weeks, making myself an espresso and breakfast burrito, going to the morning brief, then launching for BFI. No PA at TOC, just go hot mic with the RNs and start discussing where we’re eating. Also miss picking up a breakfast burrito from Breeze Inn at 7 AM after flying all night and not really remembering the drive there and back, before passing out in a sleep room for a few hours.
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…do they have one of those bases in, say, Bremerton? :)

I’m not looking but that honestly sounds like a hoot.
 
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I'm going to need that in stickers large enough to cover the real seals at SFO pls.
 
///AMG said:
Which is also fun, since you are living knee deep in our old old guys. I agree, it should be chill, and nothing should be exciting if you are doing it right. There is literally nothing interesting about SEA-DFW unless you really go out of your way. Side note, I'm thinking about making a channel where I just endlessly mock these idiotic 20-30 yr old new guys who think they need to have a channel where they show you "First flight on the A330 to FRANCE!!!!" I think there must be in excess of 1000 such channels now. I can't imagine being that desperate for attention.
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I like boring. I get paid the same amount either way.
 
///AMG said:
Which is also fun, since you are living knee deep in our old old guys. I agree, it should be chill, and nothing should be exciting if you are doing it right. There is literally nothing interesting about SEA-DFW unless you really go out of your way. Side note, I'm thinking about making a channel where I just endlessly mock these idiotic 20-30 yr old new guys who think they need to have a channel where they show you "First flight on the A330 to FRANCE!!!!" I think there must be in excess of 1000 such channels now. I can't imagine being that desperate for attention.
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There’s a video on YouTube from a United 757/767 guy who takes his 23 yr old FOs out on a layover in England. Sees a tower on a hill, tells one FO that is the Eiffel Tower in Paris. She literally thinks it’s real before then wondering can one in fact see the Eiffel Tower from London.


These kids, growing up so fast and flying their “ERs” across the world. No clue the distance between London and Paris. Just, once in a while, please open up a damn world map.
 
JordanD said:
I like boring. I get paid the same amount either way.
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I don’t think it’s boring. SEA-DFW is fine. For years, all I did in the NYC base about 90% of the time was EWR-LAX and EWR-SFO. And every time I went to work happy and looked forward to it.



October is over, I got called on reserve to fly just a one day trip. Out of boredom, I picked up 6 days of flying on days off, so took the credit from 84 hr guarantee to 120 hrs pay credit. For physically flying 7 days.


Best job ever!
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I don’t think it’s boring. SEA-DFW is fine. For years, all I did in the NYC base about 90% of the time was EWR-LAX and EWR-SFO. And every time I went to work happy and looked forward to it.



October is over, I got called on reserve to fly just a one day trip. Out of boredom, I picked up 6 days of flying on days off, so took the credit from 84 hr guarantee to 120 hrs pay credit. For physically flying 7 days.


Best job ever!
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“Boring” is underrated. Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it, but I’m not “wow omg!” flying the same 4 hour leg for the 3000th time. Still a great way to make a living.
I’m sure having a coffee on the patio in the morning listening to the birds yell at each other is considered “boring” too, but I enjoy it. A nice boring flight can be similarly relaxing.
 
JordanD said:
“Boring” is underrated. Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it, but I’m not “wow omg!” flying the same 4 hour leg for the 3000th time. Still a great way to make a living.
I’m sure having a coffee on the patio in the morning listening to the birds yell at each other is considered “boring” too, but I enjoy it. A nice boring flight can be similarly relaxing.
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Service from apathy to boredom (and back).
 
JordanD said:
“Boring” is underrated. Doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it, but I’m not “wow omg!” flying the same 4 hour leg for the 3000th time. Still a great way to make a living.
I’m sure having a coffee on the patio in the morning listening to the birds yell at each other is considered “boring” too, but I enjoy it. A nice boring flight can be similarly relaxing.
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I’m still wow omg :)

Right before upgrade, I had a CA say he wished he was as enthusiastic about this job as I seemed to be.

I don’t think I’ve changed.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I’m still wow omg :)

Right before upgrade, I had a CA say he wished he was as enthusiastic about this job as I seemed to be.

I don’t think I’ve changed.
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I love that. Trip7 was/is the same way. There was a time when it was “cool” for certain individuals to claim they hated the career, and thump your chest about finding something else to do. He was always like “I love it.”
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
There’s a video on YouTube from a United 757/767 guy who takes his 23 yr old FOs out on a layover in England. Sees a tower on a hill, tells one FO that is the Eiffel Tower in Paris. She literally thinks it’s real before then wondering can one in fact see the Eiffel Tower from London.


These kids, growing up so fast and flying their “ERs” across the world. No clue the distance between London and Paris. Just, once in a while, please open up a damn world map.
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There are tons of videos from the likes of Stanford, Berkley, Yale, Harvard ect of students being absolutely clueless about stuff that was common sense generations ago. Hell, there is a whole video just of Stanford students not knowing anything (as in, who we were at war with even) about the Vietnam War, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11. A common theme, tho, is despite how jetset this generation is; they don't know where anything is. And they got into these prestigious schools without even the most basic grasp of "modern" US history. It's...scary. ChatGPT ahoy me thinks.

Most girls I've dated under 30 are children of the magenta line incapable of doing their daily commute without step-by-step instructions they've become reliant on. I used to think it was funny, now it makes me sad. If I had $1 for everytime I hit something on a GPS to a girl for the first time and they acted like "Who the hell can read a map (meaning the magenta/blue line), I need step by step directions". You want a girl to think you have super powers? Try remembering where the hotel you're staying at is after driving there once or twice then finding your way around the area the rest of the trip sans GPS. It's wizardry to them. The girls in Asia are no different I found when it comes to that. (Redacted: DT)
 
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