Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
USMCFLYR,
Honestly I just want you to be a friend and am sorry to disappoint you. You have never attacked me directly but you do criticize my style and my style is essentially me. In addition I never have directed any of my professional evaluations at you at all. You are one of the smart ones.
Early on you wisely picked a career in the military and stuck with it. After you retired you again avoided the trap by going to work for the FAA over the airlines. The only thing I have in regards to you is that you really have never had to endure what a full time civilian pilot has to. To try and live on what they earn and to live the life of an abused pilot in a corrupt system that's main purpose is to manipulate the worker.
You have no common experience at all with what the essence of this forum is about. You fly planes but that is about all. Good for you. I however stand by all the heart that I put into my writing because I lived it. It is just as miserable and hopeless as I portray but to your credit you would not know that.
Skyhigh
I did 20 years in the military, now I'm a civilian working for Delta. Do I qualify to post on this forum based on your arbitrary rules? I think USMCFLYR has plenty of reasons to post, and his posts are thoughtful. Likewise gov't jobs aren't the security they once were, reference the 3-week FAA shutdown and the national political push to downsize gov't. Just because your life sucks (or sucked) doesn't mean it sucks for everyone else. Take people at their face value.