Originally Posted by
tsquare
I can answer 3 of the 5. But like your compadre, you totally miss the point. It is your future that is being marginalized. You are the ones that are dumbing down the profession. If you really believe you deserve $300k for simply reading a checklist, you are incredibly naive. Compensation comes from having a skill or knowledge that is unique to individuals performing a given task or trade. Reading English is not unique.
And I really hope you go down the road of being paid a lot "just in case something bad happens"....... I'd love to have that discussion....
"These are the good old days".
"Dumbing down" because we don't want to learn pointless trivia about our airplane? We don't think we deserve 300k to fly an airplane because we know what blue juice is made out of. We deserve 300k because in this job we're stuck working crap hours and forced to stay in crappy hotels on weekends and holidays sometimes 5 day in a row per week.