Originally Posted by
LRSRanger
And that's why we are seeing a shortage of well qualified applicants. What a miserable career path. If you are 18 or 20 it might be worth the sacrifice, but a lot of family guys aren't willing to sacrifice our families for a shot at the legacies someday. Of course the way the numbers are working out in 5-10 years the majors might be in the same hiring predicament as the regional world is now.
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Absolutely... While I don't think the career path is miserable necessarily, I certainly do not think it is an easy or even a fair endeavor to ask a family to go through with you. Unless of course you have a bread-winning spouse or very few bills. CFI pay is livable if you're young. And so is regional pay. However, at some point you have to start repaying debt and being able to enjoy some of the finer things. And that is simply difficult to do on regional pay. By the time you are a CA, maybe now you have a kid or two. That CA pay doesn't look so hot anymore. But that's life. I can't tell you how many mainline guys I talk to who complain about not making enough.