Hopefully you will have better luck than a friend of mine who was hired by Atlas in early 1998 and got a job offer from US Airways in 1999. He did the only rational thing. And today, after a very rough 12 years, he is jerking gear in a A320.

On the upside his marriage, ver 1.0, survived and he still has his house.

Of course if he had stayed at Atlas, which would have looked really stupid, he would be a senior Captain. But along the way he would have skated on the edge of seeing Chapter 7.

We are all just little mammals on the highway of aviation. Road kill is both a very common and a very random event.

So step up to the table and roll the dice.