Re: 100 retirees tonight?
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And don't forget business travel, bringing work home, and the constant stress of what needs to be done tomorrow (or yesterday). I often have the feeling that many of the people that worry, fret and/or complain about the pilot lifestyle have never had a "real" corporate job. Just like it's not some shangri-la to fly for the airlines, working a "real" job is no piece of cake.
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One of the attractions of an aviation career to me is that when I am home, work is over.
You aren't thinking about the damn TPS cover sheet redesign that your boss wants you to use starting next week, and oh, crap, he wants that stupid TPS report by Monday at 9:00 AM and that means you'll have to be in on Sunday to finish up the stupid report. And then where the hell is the PDF of the new TPS cover sheet because you don't want to hear about the freaking cover sheet again even though it doesn't mean jack squat to the report.
And why the hell am I putting all this effort into the stupid TPS reports anyway, since nobody gives a damn about them and they delete them when they get them in their email? Except for some clueless idiots who still insist on getting them via interoffice mail so that they can throw them on their desk and then lose them and have their assistants bug me for new copies since they lost them.
It will be nice to say, ah.....that four day trip with exciting layovers in Podunk, IA and Armpitsville, TX sucked big time but now it's all over and I don't have to worry about work for a few days.
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Sounds like work is being taken a little too seriously. I am considered successful at what I do, but when I go home work does not follow. My mentality towards work is that I can only do what I can and when I do what I can it is only on company time "in the workplace". I wish my boss, or future bosses, would step out of bounds by saying or implying do work at home and not compensating me.
To me, work is like life in a sense that it is what you make of it.