Originally Posted by
bedrock
I guess the question is, is the career you had going to be the career the future pilots will have and will it be worth it? 7-8 yrs as an airline pilot topped out at 45K? Commuting across the country, living in crashpads for 80K as a captain with 11-13 days off? Constantly being threatened by whipsaw? Waiting, waiting for a legacy job that may not happen and which will cause you to restart again? Envoy tops their FO pay at 4 yrs, and it is pretty pathetic pay. CA tops at 12.
Son, there will always be strikes or other labor issues and even bankruptcies along the way in any pilots career. Low pay is just one part of the equation. What is important to the young aspiring pilot is to keep your overhead low and the ability to jump from flying job to flying job until you find an airline that is willing to pay a wage that will keep the talent in house. They are out there. There are other forces determined to make sure wages a fair for pilots - ALPA, supply and demand, and a management who is trying to keep the "revolving door" of pilots in check to hold down the training costs of new pilots. My experience is a pilot's best friend is a close relationship with ALPA. They are not perfect but their vision of labor and wages that sustain that labor force prove time and again their value to a pilots career