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Old 04-01-2017 | 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by awakenedpilot
I'm also pretty much decided on leaving my corporate (non-flying) job. I separated a few years ago and thought I wouldn't miss flying. Been out of a manned cockpit (KC-10) for 4 years.

If you're like me and working a job right now where you are tied to a work phone, get hundreds of emails a day about I'm not sure what and can't ever totally shut the brain off from work in case there's an emergency, then it really puts flying into perspective about the skills/training we were given to put toward doing a job that I believe in the LONG RUN will allow for better quality of life.

Nothing's perfect in a job but being able to set the parking brake and truly be done for the day is sounding better so I can have quality time at home.
I did not run across many USAF pilots that did not want to fly commercial, especially heavy pilots. The Army seems to be quite different. A lot of Army pilots think it is much better than the ground job they used to do, but have no intention of flying commercial.
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