What we are all feeling as F.O.s currently is stagnation. It's kind of like brain freeze. We know what it's like and hate it but we continue to suck down that delicious frozen drink. Only because we know the brain freeze will go away.

All the BS F.O.s deal with regularly such as crap pay and working for free wouldn't be so bad if we knew for sure it was only temporary.

I wouldn't touch an ice cream if I knew there was a chance the brain freeze would last forever. Wish I thought about that before becoming a pilot.

Crappy analogy but might shed a little light on what we whiny F.O.s are trying to express to the more privileged folks.