Hey Hotmama.. You are 34 and fly for UPS... congrats! Want a cookie? For someone 34 years old and in "admittedly" a good position, don't you think you should act more of your age and a bit more professional? This thread is under the subpart for the regionals and last I checked there was a section for Cargo, so why not go over there and try to knock everyone down at the knees? You wanna try and make everyone feel soo bad for being in this industry and it makes no sense for you when you are on the other side of the airport. And keep in mind this industry does go up and down. My father was talking to me just a couple days ago about when he had to choose between fedex and united in 1990. United was the top paid airline and fedex was up and coming, yet with alot of question marks- sure fedex did better now, but at the time united would have been better. 15 years later United was furloughing... You have at least 26 years left to work so dont count your eggs before they have all hatched. While I think the cargo arena is the most stable one in the air, management could still screw it all up and put companies in a bind later when trying to compete with other competitors. UPS and FDX can only jack up prices to ship stuff soo much before someone else will cut into business cheaper. Just look at the passenger arena- if southwest and jet blue were not around the majors would have jacked up prices years ago to thwart off deficits. There is no guarantee that could not happen to you in the next 26 years. I dont wanna start a bickering match with you hotmama, but it would be nice to get on here just one day and not have you giving everyone a hard time.