Originally Posted by
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On a different subject. There seems to be a lot of fingers pointed around on who would give up what during the contract negotiations. In particular, old guys don't want to rock the boat this close to retirement and young civilian guys have never made this much money and they'll never rock the boat.
I think when it comes to the young civilian guys you'd be surprised how many of them, despite making more than their previous job, have no problem walking off the job.
Yeah I don't understand that logic, especially considering most of the "younger" guys here who went civilian chose to do so at a time when that was the more lucrative path.
The military being the better career is a recent development and 99% of the people here made their career decisions before that was a reality. We literally probably have only a few hundred pilots who chose a civilian career after the civilian career fell apart.