Career Changing... Away from the airlines...

Stomp16 said:
BrewMaster, you could always come back! We just received another brand new bird.
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Like Autothrust Blue said, I loved locking the cockpit door and flying, the rest was terrible. When you have young family, it's even worse.

I loved everything about the job except the 8 days even though we did a lot of cool stuff during those 8 days....kind of a weird thing to say. I miss being able to actually fly where and how I want. I miss being known by my name and not stressing about sign in times. Maybe one day....it's not off the table! You just need another A-teamer to man up and rescue a stuck airplane?
 
BrewMaster said:
Like Autothrust Blue said, I loved locking the cockpit door and flying, the rest was terrible. When you have young family, it's even worse.

I loved everything about the job except the 8 days even though we did a lot of cool stuff during those 8 days....kind of a weird thing to say. I miss being able to actually fly where and how I want. I miss being known by my name and not stressing about sign in times. Maybe one day....it's not off the table! You just need another A-teamer to man up and rescue a stuck airplane?
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You know...the people I work with make all the difference. I don't actually find most of the ground time here to be that unpleasant either, although there are things that make me want to yell out the window. The "I HATE EVERYONE" vibe was pretty obvious at Eagle post-bankruptcy. (Understandably.)

Most folks who wind up in the left seat where I work are at least moderately pleasant, and hiring non-dirtbags is a stated priority vice merely filling the seat. It could be the size of the category and fleet I'm in too (we have about 20-25 FOs in LAX most of the time and half of them are classmates or acquaintances of mine) but the people here are orders of magnitude happier and more positive than anyone working at an AMR carrier. The place is not without its challenges—far from it—but my coworkers here tend to be a lot more fun and a lot less slam-clicky. Surfer dude culture > DFW rednecks. Not all Eagle people are unhappy, but the mood is just "egh."

At no time in my Eagle interview was I asked if I liked to fly. True story. That was one of the first HR questions I was asked here. If you don't at least like to fly, or tolerate flying, you will be miserable at this job no matter how much money you'll be paid.

tl;dr: a little kool-aid, Blue Juice, or whatever you want to call it, goes a long way, as well as having a plan that is as simple as "Taking names, kicking ass."
 
bronco21016 , have you thought applying to SimuCom, or Flight Safety as a maintenance tech? Their pay is ridiculous, good bennies, solid companies, and 8 hr. days.... Just food for thought.
 
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