42go - if you're 40 you can't assume you'll be around at 60. It's that simple. There's a 25% chance you'll medical out, your company may go bankrupt, your company may move planes offshore, a war may start, whatever.

The best job in the nineties was UAL. PLENTY of guys I knew left good jobs for a chance of those widebody captain rates and that pension. After all - it was the largest airline in the world, right? What could go wrong?

This industry has about a 5 year event window. Beyond that anything goes. I don't want to hear about from 60 to 65. I want to hear about the next five years.

If you were 40 right now, in the right seat (but bidding NB captain at 100%), raising kids with a stay-at-home wife, you'd be as mad as the rest of us. Tell me I'm wrong.