I think it is true that the airlines always had furloughs and hardships however in the past it all was worth it once you made it up the list to the point where you could earn a brain surgeons salary.

These days all the struggle and sacrifice might result in besting a assistant managers wage at the local grocery store. In the past you could make up for all the furloughs, mergers and layoffs with a fat paycheck later in life and retirement when it was all over.

Now that most of that is gone or going the pot of gold at the end to compensate one for the decades of hardship is mostly empty. Might as well fill out the application at Safeway and stack apples.

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