Quite the opposite. 9 years in the right seat, and 2 years in the left seat at a dying airline, with all sorts of good samaritan work for both my union and community. Not peeved at all, just saddened that hiring has become more of a popularity contest, rather than focusing on what really matters. Take it as you wish. Airline flying doesn't define who I am, and when our non-union sister company is finally dancing on my airline's grave in a few years, I'll happily be sitting on a beach ordering my next Jack & Coke, while folks like you are still fighting over scraps, trying to appease whichever pencil pusher is charge of hiring pilots that week.