Screaming_Emu
Well-Known Member
Cheers to that. I've "made it" to a 121 carrier. And I love the flying. From the time the cockpit door closes until it opens this is the best job ever (as long as you're not flying with an aforementioned bag). The rest of the stuff I could leave in an instant. Most of it is self inflicted as I'm a commuter. I moved out of base after having a line for quite a while. Then as soon as I moved I ended up with long call reserve. Not a bad deal, just a little added stress of having to drop everything and figure out how to get to ATL. But now (despite this being my company's busiest month in history) I have moved backwards and I'm sitting short call reserve. I'm hardly ever home, spend more money, and do even less flying. I have sat in Atlanta for the last 3 days and have only flown 4 hours. And I still have 2 days to go. If I was flying a bunch, that would be one thing. I have actually had a dream where I took all my stuff in and dumped it in the chief pilots office.
I have plans to move back to base because this has moved my QOL into the negative numbers. But unfortunately it can't happen soon enough (getting married in October). So now I really don't have much of a choice but to deal with it.
That's the thing that is strange about this industry. When things are good they're good, when things are bad they make becoming a carnie not sound so bad. Last fall I was holding lines with 16 days off, haven't had to work holidays, etc. Now I spend most of every week as a semi-permanent fixture of the Atlanta airport.
Slightly off topic: I found that most of the bags where I went to school never finished their training. When they figured out that flight training actually took some work, it cut into their time playing flight sim, looking at airliners.net, and talking loudly enough at the dining hall so that people knew they were pilots, they decided to move on to other things. Just a general observation.
I have plans to move back to base because this has moved my QOL into the negative numbers. But unfortunately it can't happen soon enough (getting married in October). So now I really don't have much of a choice but to deal with it.
That's the thing that is strange about this industry. When things are good they're good, when things are bad they make becoming a carnie not sound so bad. Last fall I was holding lines with 16 days off, haven't had to work holidays, etc. Now I spend most of every week as a semi-permanent fixture of the Atlanta airport.
Slightly off topic: I found that most of the bags where I went to school never finished their training. When they figured out that flight training actually took some work, it cut into their time playing flight sim, looking at airliners.net, and talking loudly enough at the dining hall so that people knew they were pilots, they decided to move on to other things. Just a general observation.
