Originally Posted by
Joachim
You haven't attempted to raise a family for 6 years on FO pay have you? You haven't tried to stay married, double legging it to reserve while holding eleven days of during that period either.
I bet you were not furloughed during the worst recession in recent history and your health insurance doesn't reduce your take home pay by 30%. I bet you didn't spend six years, trying to stay sane in overcrowded crashpads while stressing over that $600 interest payment.
Many of us did. I'm not whining, I know I can handle anything life will throw at me. I'm smarter, more skeptical, and less receptive to bull****. Right is right, wrong is wrong, and i'm getting ready to cash in on my dues.
As a pampered product of the early 00's, you shouldn't accuse a senior RJ FO of being a whiner. Chances are that he has been beat down, hardened and learned how to deal with guys like you. You will soon fly with them.
Welcome to a generation who has indeed experienced life.
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This is the best quote on this board. To all the FO's who joined the airline industry in 2007-08 and are still FO's, when our time comes -- We will have earned every good thing this industry has to offer.
We are not bitter, but a lot more "seasoned" than the regional lifer captains who went before us with only 9 months to 3 years in the right seat. We are all happy that 121 life turned out so well for you, but PLEASE -- stop lecturing us about how things are. You have not walked the last five to six years in our shoes (you know -- the ones with the holes in them).