What is this job to you?

What is this job to you?

  • Just a business decision. I’m in it for the money.

    Votes: 9 10.3%

  • I’ve loved airplanes since I was a kid, what else would I do?!

    Votes: 66 75.9%

  • I like my job, but I don’t geek out about airplanes or airline history.

    Votes: 26 29.9%
  • Total voters
    87
Richman said:
, but that requires some level of a D20 charisma roll, and some have better modifiers than others.
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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Can I ask, why the difference / hate for the 767 vs MD11? Is this strictly a seniority and schedule thing? Or more the airplane itself? Or something else?
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I'd have a better schedule and better seniority on the 767. It's the toyota camry of airplanes. I'd put the 737 in the same category. My career has meandered along to mostly fly things i wanted to fly. Those two airplanes are not amongst them by a long shot. It would definitely just be a job.
 
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mikecweb said:
You've flown one type of "airliner" correct?
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I think you're missing my point. It is intentionally dry scripted "flying", in the most boring flying machines to ever take to the skies. No amount of gross weight or engines or wheels would change that. It's super chill and good money though. That's about it. Before anyone gets up in arms, I do take pride in professionally operating it, like any other type of flying I've done, but it's about the last thing that little ///AMG ever envisioned himself doing (or even wanting to do). I do enjoy hand flying the 737 actually, but it's still boring ass flying for the most part. As it should be. We go from point A to point B in this industry, maybe with an occasional stop through point C. I'm not sure what is super interesting about that.

To answer your question though, yes. I've got no intention of flying another
 
///AMG said:
I think you're missing my point. It is intentionally dry scripted "flying", in the most boring flying machines to ever take to the skies. No amount of gross weight or engines or wheels would change that. It's super chill and good money though. That's about it. Before anyone gets up in arms, I do take pride in professionally operating it, like any other type of flying I've done, but it's about the last thing that little ///AMG ever envisioned himself doing (or even wanting to do). I do enjoy hand flying the 737 actually, but it's still boring ass flying for the most part. As it should be. We go from point A to point B in this industry, maybe with an occasional stop through point C. I'm not sure what is super interesting about that.

To answer your question though, yes. I've got no intention of flying another
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You were right the first time. 121 flying is boring as chit and is nothing exciting. And that’s how it’s designed to be, and should remain as. Am bored off my butt 10 mins after departure, for the few times a month I do it. Just enough to remind me that nothing has changed with the operation.
 
Since I was 12 or so all I wanted to do was fly airplanes…legit had no clue how I would make it happen and then the GI Bill locked in and it was off to the races. There were periods after my instrument I thought it would never happen. I spent over a decade in a career that was slowly killing my soul. I remember that feeling anytime I’m having a less than stellar 121 day. Do I want to fly GA anymore? Not really. My 16 year old nephew is pre-solo and will talk my ear off for an hour about a flight he just did in a 152. I see that same spark and enthusiasm I think I had 25 years ago and it makes me appreciate where I am even more.

I agree the instagramification of the job has ruined a bit of it, and I still have to work to not make it my identity, though that’s getting easier as I get older and dislike people in general more…😂.

Still, it beats digging ditches and I don’t know what I’d want to do otherwise anyways.
 
My story is a little different than the norm so why not....

I got into airplanes when I was about 11 or 12 (my friend wanted to introduce me to internet porn via dialup, and used Flight Simulator 95 to cover the screen from parents-- I was more interested in the flying than the boobs (that eventually reversed itself).

I did the whole passion thing, worked for a couple of regionals, then got laid off in the oil spike of 2008. I was 23, I had a $600 a month apartment that I split with my girlfriend, ultimately it wouldn't have been something that would be more than a minor bump in the road. Except my sim partner, he was 35 with two small kids. He had to go off to Nigeria to fly for 2-3 years while his wife raised the kids alone (this after he moved to Phoenix for a year to do flight training). I realized that while I'm 23 and have no responsibility in my life, I don't want to be in that situation when I'm 35, so I figured I would try an office job and when the furlough recall happened if I hated the office I could go back to flying.

Turns out the person who interviewed me and eventually hired me would become my wife. My career in an office took off and two years later when I got the recall letter finally, I was looking at taking a 60-80% paycut to commute from PHX to EWR and sit reserve, so I stayed in the office world.

Ultimately I was able to do better than I likely would've at the airlines through sheer luck and my wife and I decided to hang up the boots at 37 and spend our time raising the kids, which has been worth every minute
 
It's way WAY better than:

Waiting tables
Tending bar
Staring at spreadsheets
Answering emails
Directing idiots around
Being directed around by idiots
Sitting in meetings
Hanging drywall
Demolition
Painting
Running electrical through hot attics
 
Fixtur said:
It's way WAY better than:

Waiting tables
Tending bar
Staring at spreadsheets
Answering emails
Directing idiots around
Being directed around by idiots
Sitting in meetings
Hanging drywall
Demolition
Painting
Running electrical through hot attics
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Facts. And pays better than pretty much any of those.
 
Chris_Ford said:
My story is a little different than the norm so why not....

I got into airplanes when I was about 11 or 12 (my friend wanted to introduce me to internet porn via dialup, and used Flight Simulator 95 to cover the screen from parents-- I was more interested in the flying than the boobs (that eventually reversed itself).

I did the whole passion thing, worked for a couple of regionals, then got laid off in the oil spike of 2008. I was 23, I had a $600 a month apartment that I split with my girlfriend, ultimately it wouldn't have been something that would be more than a minor bump in the road. Except my sim partner, he was 35 with two small kids. He had to go off to Nigeria to fly for 2-3 years while his wife raised the kids alone (this after he moved to Phoenix for a year to do flight training). I realized that while I'm 23 and have no responsibility in my life, I don't want to be in that situation when I'm 35, so I figured I would try an office job and when the furlough recall happened if I hated the office I could go back to flying.

Turns out the person who interviewed me and eventually hired me would become my wife. My career in an office took off and two years later when I got the recall letter finally, I was looking at taking a 60-80% paycut to commute from PHX to EWR and sit reserve, so I stayed in the office world.

Ultimately I was able to do better than I likely would've at the airlines through sheer luck and my wife and I decided to hang up the boots at 37 and spend our time raising the kids, which has been worth every minute
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curious what industry you ended up in where you were able to retire at 37?
 
Currently sitting in 10C on a Luv 737 for my 2 leg commute to a base that's 1,000 miles from home, currently not moving due to a ground stop for a communication outtage, to sit reserve when I get there, at a Bankrupt airline. And there isn't anything else I'd rather be doing.

This job really is what you make of it. Listening to the BS my wife deals with as upper-middle management makes me love what I do all that much more.

Also watching Die Hard to get into the holiday season! HO HO HO!
 
///AMG said:
I think you're missing my point. It is intentionally dry scripted "flying", in the most boring flying machines to ever take to the skies. No amount of gross weight or engines or wheels would change that. It's super chill and good money though. That's about it. Before anyone gets up in arms, I do take pride in professionally operating it, like any other type of flying I've done, but it's about the last thing that little ///AMG ever envisioned himself doing (or even wanting to do). I do enjoy hand flying the 737 actually, but it's still boring ass flying for the most part. As it should be. We go from point A to point B in this industry, maybe with an occasional stop through point C. I'm not sure what is super interesting about that.

To answer your question though, yes. I've got no intention of flying another
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The boring bus to boring town, in the most boring way possible. Nothing makes me happier than being bored at work.
 
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