Originally Posted by
AdiosMikeFox
Uh, no...
I'm disappointed in people like you, that's all. You made lucky life choices which are easy to validate in retrospect, yet expect those who didn't make the same choices or the means to even consider those choices (a realistic impossibility, but you ignore that) to magically rewind or upend their lives so they can attempt, and I do mean attempt because not everyone can find that success in their remaining time, to mirror your fortune. Because it's that simple (note - I didn't say easy.)
The air is too thin in your ivory tower.
I've taken advantage of opportunities in life as they have presented themselves. I've never known what opportunities may come along. But what I haven't done is tied my identity as a person to my job, they are not one in the same. I keep my options open now and in the past. It's up to the airline to keep me as an employee, they owe me, not the other way around. If or when I don't feel it's worth it I'll just move on, but until then the job is filling open space in my life. I am enjoying the travel benefits though.