"Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters"

:):)I'll throw my opinion about having children in too.
If you don't have kids, or don't plan to have them then you don't honestly know how you would feel about kids unless/until you have one. Some people find out after having one that they absolutely love them, and others resent, and sometimes hate them after having one, it's a question that can't be answered honestly until it happens. Having said that I don't think it makes someone more or less of a human being because they do or don't have kids, or do or don't want to have them, it's a question that requires experience to be answered with 100% certainty.
I do believe that if someone feels very strongly that they don't want one, and they have put honest, sincere thought to the question that there is nothing wrong with that.
 
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F9DXER said:
I have stated this more than once - there is a cost associated with everything we want to do. That cost comes in many forms: time, money, family, etc etc. Only those involved can determine if what they want to do is worth that cost.
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Your post reminded me of a Henry David Thoreau quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run".
 
Richman said:
No kids. No family. No problems.

Fill the cat feeder, scoop the poop box, and get all the conditional love I can stand.

Make occasional flying love to the Bonanza mistress, and I got things covered thanks.

Richman
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Perfect!

You know what's hilarious is that a lot of my unmarried childless friends at work have some sweet airplanes.
 
I travel a lot for work these days - maybe 4 days a month on average, and it's great for my marriage. That being said, if I was away that many days a week, I'd be on my Nth marriage too.
 
As an airline pilot, how do you cope with the effects of being away from your family and specifically your kids? and how do you stay positive and not let the depression of thinking about past "time lost" effect your well being?

It didn't start out to be as bad as it is now. We used to have more time off. Through all the bankruptcies and closing of bases the toll is now higher. Sully lived in Oakland and flew for PSA, (the original). After the US / PSA merge they closed the West coast bases and Sully commuted to PIT. I flew with him on red-eyes with long SFO overnights so he could be at home. Then when PIT closed he went to CLT.

The toll of this job happens when lot's of things go wrong. You are in a domicile city and they close the base. Your company is in Chapter 11, and the Real-Estate market collapses. The last thing you are going to do late in your career is to roll the dice, take a loss on your home, and move when you have kids in school and a local business.

The industry he and I went to work for is not today's airline industry.
 
For all the time we're away, we're home a lot more.I complain to my girlfriend about only getting 15 days off a month and she scoffs because she only gets 8-9. It's a trade-off. We don't have kids yet but even for the time I'm away we have lots of time to make-up for it.

I would commute across the country for this job if it still gave me the opportunity to do what I love and have 15 days plus off and at home every month.
 
Hell im home every night (well except for mids) but y'all probably have more time at home than I do. I've been on 6 day weeks with at least 2-3 10 hour days for the last 2 years, and some guys have been doing that for a lot longer than I've been here. Some days I'm literally home for less than 8 hours between shifts.
 
NovemberEcho said:
Hell im home every night (well except for mids) but y'all probably have more time at home than I do. I've been on 6 day weeks with at least 2-3 10 hour days for the last 2 years, and some guys have been doing that for a lot longer than I've been here. Some days I'm literally home for less than 8 hours between shifts.
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Wow. Just you guys understaffed, or US ATC in general?

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