Originally Posted by
Jetjok
Jolly, you really do need to read entire posts before commenting. It's only "fair." There are a number of guys who are both older and junior, both at the same time, but I guess that if they're senior to you, than that's all that counts. As well, I don't play golf. It's too exacting (and slow) for me. I'm into racquet sports, in a very big way.
I'm sorry that you just don't get it, but I'd be willing to bet that when you're approaching retirement, you will. And if, by chance, the rule does change, and guys who are approaching age 60 decide to stay on, what then? Will you still feel the way you do now? ... that they should just go away and play golf, or will it be different for them, because after all the rule has changed. If you feel that they should still just go away, I'd suggest that it's going to be a really loooooong, unhappy career for you. Maybe you should thing about changing your screen name to Eternally-Sad-F15. By the way, I think we've flown together over in Asia, when you were in the jet only a few months. But then again, I've been wrong before.
Not trying to sling mud here JJ, and I won't have a lousy attitude over this thing. I don't like it, that's for sure. Yes it does effect me in a negative way, and a bunch of other pilots at my seniority in the same boat. I'm professional enough to keep this out of the cockpit, and for what it's worth I still have a smile on my face when I go to work. Life's too short to be p---ed off at the world.
But it's like I said, I just don't get why anyone would take a pass on the great retirement our contract provides at 60. I'll have 18 years here plus my 21 years in the AF and would like to retire early. Will I miss it? No, I really don't think so---there's too much life left to live and want to live it while I'm healthy. This is a very emotional issue for us all. I think the change is a really bad idea for all the reasons we've already been over. That being said, it's probably going to happen and I'll apparently have to suck it up and move on. Kinda sucks though.