Originally Posted by
Sky Knight
And another thing...the idea of being a number on someone else's stupid seniority list is insane the more I think of it. Imagine your family's security being attached to your seniority number.
This stuff has gotten me worked up lately. Thus my posts in the "Leaving the career" section. And my career with the airlines hasn't even started...if it ever will.
Love this forum: Reminds me of a vampire fest.
Good luck whatever you do, but am extraordinarliy happy with my airline career. Did military, regional (turboprop), and now 121. Lots of bumps, and the low regional paychecks were demoralizing for 3 years. But I set my own course and took my own future as mine. Didn't blame anyone. Door is always your option. Skyhigh and I are polar opposites. Perhaps, if fate had turned we would be on opposite sides of the equation.....but I doubt it since I rode his lows as well.
Bottom line, you need to determine your future, can't use someone like me who is enjoying a wonderful airline career in total to Skyhigh whose career stopped when he pulled the plug for is own valid reasons.
Simply put: I had a thousand talented people tell me "NO", very few said "YES", I am so glad I ignored all those talented genius' in my midst in my life.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
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