The tally is in - The Most Stressful Job of 2012 is...

ChasenSFO said:
Maybe they didn't mean the flying itself, but all the time away from home? The job sure as hell seems stressful when you hear about it from a guy with a 2 leg commute, or even a one leg transcon commute. Of course, that is the commuters choice to live that way. But I can't think of many jobs where the place you work is always changing. Years ago I read a blog written by a guy who used to fly with Xjet. I started reading where he was super excited that he was being based in Socal when the branded operations/Delta flying started. He bought a house, and after only a few months, the company decided "Well, that was stupid", and suddenly he was catching a flight to EWR to get to work. To say he wasn't happy about it would be the understatement of the century, and his reaction is probably why people started passing his blog around. I'll try to find it.
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Someone who buys a house after an airline opens a new base has not researched the airline business very well.
 
Duck_Twacy said:
The flying is easy. It's the other 90% that has me stressed out all the time...
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Again, even the other 90% is easy compared to most other jobs I've had. So management stinks sometimes. I had bad CO's in the military. Talk about stress. So your running behind. Better than running behind in the military. Away from home? At least no one is shooting at me and I can have a beer that night without getting in trouble. Passengers upset? Nothing like a commanding general upset about your flight. Company retirement plan going up in flames? Wonder what will happen with Kodak's plan here in the next few weeks.
 
I'm sure the article was probably referring to commuting non-rev on your duty day with JS hierarchy screwing you every which way. Yeah, thats it.
 
The stress cops have differ from where you work (city, sheriff, CHP or trooper) to the division your in. If your in investigation you are in a building most of the time, unless your out investigating a crime. Cops make good money if your in a high state, like CA. Starting wage for NYPD is around 30k (from a former NYPD). OT can add a bunch, I know guys making high 200k.
 
Whatever happened to working the deck of a deployed carrier? Someone gets killed every cruise. Or close to it.
 
Canassis said:
Whatever happened to working the deck of a deployed carrier? Someone gets killed every cruise. Or close to it.
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Fairly instant death. No time to stress about it! :sarcasm:

I need to recreate the sarcasm tag.
 
MikeD said:
Not that it makes a difference end-game, but did the guy in the video go down a Prowler or an Intruder intake?
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I stand corrected. It was an Intruder.



**You do the investigation on this one too, Mike? :D **
 
The survey reminds me of the old joke about how you know you've arrived at the gate. Both the engines and the pilots stop whining. I'm not so sure about the latter, however.
 
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