Originally Posted by
SigHansen
That's just it though! Good things come from taking risk. Come to AAY. Strike occurs. I back the pilots. In a short few days AAY gets a new contract. Go back to work. Now bunch of people start wanting to come to AAY cus the battle is done and have a good contract. But meanwhile the mad rush of interested pilots will now become junior to me cus I took a leap of faith and took the risk. Am I delusional?
I think this kind of thinking can pay off BIG, but you can also lose BIG. Do a risk vs. reward analysis. If you can accept the downside at it's worse, i.e. if all the wheels come off can you still look yourself in the mirror and say "I'm still glad I tried" ? If so then you really can't lose. But also consider is the degree of 'best case' equal to or higher than the inverse degree of 'worse case'? If it's not, then it's a bad gamble pure and simple.
History favors risk takers - just be smart. I wish I'd learned this earlier in life.