Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
To be clear, I'm not arguing against higher pay. Because it is simply what the market is demanding. But to compare us to doctors is ridiculous. We don't incur the amount of debt nor are we required to go through the same type of schooling doctors are. And this job certainly isn't brain surgery.
Some do incur the same amount of debt.
Yes we do less schook, but how many spent years flight instructing, banner towing, flying checks etc, just to get their first commercial flying job? Sounds like an internship to me kinda of like residency......
Yes this job isn't brain surgery, but we have more lives at risk in a day than most doctors do in a month. Remember Cologan? One mistake and our job, our lives are done. A doctor makes a mistake he fills out some insurance form and goes back to work the next day.
Not just comparing, but we should be compensated for what we have done to get here, and what our job entitles us to do. The longer we hold ourselves short of our true worth the longer management won't change their thinking. Don't sell your profession short. You are a professional so demand to be paid like one.