SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Nice dodge. So you are in your 20s. Get back to me when you’re a little older and you’ve put down roots.
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BigZ
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I personally think that commuting sucks and commuting to reserve is a special type of hell, but, to be fair, many places have ultra short reserve times these days. A friend had a choice to either move his fiancee to NYC (her job is transferrable within the company between LA and NY) and live in base, or keep their place in LAX and commute to ORD. Holds a good line at ORD after sitting reserve for two weeks, enjoys his free meal service and movies on what I'd consider a nightmare commute and thinks it's the best decision ever. Not in his 20s either.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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So what you’re saying is that commuting is sometimes a choice. That’s a statement I can agree with. That’s not what the 20-something is saying.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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What's wrong with being in your 20's?!
Nothing. I was once, as well. But I fought for commuters to have a good QOL. I didn’t tell them to just suck it up.
“These are unprecedented times!”
Yup, I remember the last two “unprecedented times”.
Once when I was in college and United would basically hire a fresh college graduate if he had a 727 FE certificate. And another time where I was thinking “Holy cow, I’d be top 30% 737 captaiin in MCO and can almost hold Mad Dog captain in DFW and I’ve barely been here three years” on September 10, 2001.
This is all like the scene where, in “The Matrix” that Neo meets “The Architect” and is told “all of this has happened before”
Roger Roger
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Man, I blocked the sequels out of my memory!This is all like the scene where, in “The Matrix” that Neo meets “The Architect” and is told “all of this has happened before”
thevideographer
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Ah, attack my age and brush off my opinions because you're older. That's what a real adult does.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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I'm not attacking your opinions because of your age. I'm attacking your opinions because they're wrong. Your age is simply the likely reason for why you have a wrongheaded view. You aren't looking at the situation from the angle that someone looks at it when they have a family, a business, or other responsibilities in a certain location. People in their 30s and older generally aren't able to load their entire life up into their Honda Civic and move across the country. You should try to understand that before claiming that people "choose" to commute.
Screaming_Emu
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Commuting is worth it if you love where you live or hate where you're based. It's certainly a sacrifice and is never pleasant, but it does get to a point where it becomes the new normal. That said, all commutes aren't made equal. My LIT-ATL and IAD-DTW commutes each had lots of frequency and rarely didn't go according to plan. For people who don't like their base, I would highly recommend looking at similar cities that are an hour-ish flight away with lots of options. Like being on reserve, you just have to resign yourself to a certain level of suck and make a conscious decision not to get worked up about it.
There are also some bonkers commutes that make me scratch my head. When I was at ASA I flew with a guy who commuted from Vietnam to ATL using ZED fares. That's not my jam, but you just have to look at your current situation and figure out what is right for you.
I spent much of my life moving around every 3-6 years. I enjoyed it and sometimes get the itch to move again. But with the frequency of airline base closures, I'll be dammed if I'm going to move every time that changes. If you're going to move every time you switch bases, that basically rules out home ownership unless you live at the mothership. But even that doesn't work out all the time, just ask all the guys at ASA that said "I'm not going anywhere. Atlanta will always be here."
There are also some bonkers commutes that make me scratch my head. When I was at ASA I flew with a guy who commuted from Vietnam to ATL using ZED fares. That's not my jam, but you just have to look at your current situation and figure out what is right for you.
I spent much of my life moving around every 3-6 years. I enjoyed it and sometimes get the itch to move again. But with the frequency of airline base closures, I'll be dammed if I'm going to move every time that changes. If you're going to move every time you switch bases, that basically rules out home ownership unless you live at the mothership. But even that doesn't work out all the time, just ask all the guys at ASA that said "I'm not going anywhere. Atlanta will always be here."
jtrain609
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“These are unprecedented times!”
Yup, I remember the last two “unprecedented times”.
Once when I was in college and United would basically hire a fresh college graduate if he had a 727 FE certificate. And another time where I was thinking “Holy cow, I’d be top 30% 737 captaiin in MCO and can almost hold Mad Dog captain in DFW and I’ve barely been here three years” on September 10, 2001.
This is all like the scene where, in “The Matrix” that Neo meets “The Architect” and is told “all of this has happened before”
We've got those guys here yelling about how we should have voted no to the TA that we just passed. The agreement completely bans RJ's.
I've talked with captains who wanted to trade scope for a few dollars in rates, because "the company never wanted RJ's before, and we're wasting negotiating capital on something we don't need to worry about!!!"
I finally see how it happened before, but at least we know pilots don't change over the years.
Cptnchia
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Wait, what? How can opinions be wrong? They’re never wrong, just different. Yes, he’s looking at it from a 20YO perspective. You’re looking at it from a 35YO perspective. I look at it from a 50YO perspective. Perspectives change. So do opinions. You are the one who is wrong in saying he is wrong. That’s my opinion.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Opinions can’t be wrong? That’s news to me. So the weirdos on the Internet who have the opinion that the contrails you’re making are really you dumping chemicals into the atmosphere to control their minds: those opinions aren’t wrong? They’re just “different?”
Cptnchia
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Yes. It’s just an opinion. They are free to believe whatever they want, no matter how real or imaginary it is. Once they try and foist their opinion as “fact” THAT’S when they cross the line. Same as when you try and claim your opinions are the only one that matters and attempt to claim it is “fact.”
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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That’s comical. But at least you stayed comically consistent.
Cptnchia
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So, you’re saying people are not free to believe whatever they want?
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Of course they are. But some things are right, and some things are wrong. You can believe that the earth is flat if you’d like. You’ll just be wrong.
