Originally Posted by
dalad
I have been blessed and couldn't even start to fathom how the "lost generation" feels even though I fly with many of them. It really has been a doo doo sandwich for them. This career is such a crap shoot, and a roll of the dice. If I had accepted an earlier class at NWA I would have been about 1500 numbers junior now. So go figure. My hat goes off to the lost generation because most of them show up for work with a great attitude.
Dalad,
I couldn't agree more and you put it a lot more eloquently than I ever could.
Roadkill and daldude,
I was in no way trying to belittle or make light of your (and many others) situation and apologize if I came across that way. Dalad summed it up pretty well. I took a slightly different path but we must be pretty close in seniority. As an '88 hire I upgraded to the left seat in 2001 almost exactly 13 years to the day. I've been displaced back a few times thru my career so far but when the music stopped I was very lucky to be where I was.
Hopefully things will improve in the next couple of years.
Denny