I am not bashing the industry.

All I do is to present the ugly and honest truth. Guys like me make it difficult for others to ignore realities that we all deal with as pilots. Most are in the sad position of having to tell themselves lies in order to keep the dream alive.

To most an airline career is a hobby job that can not afford to support its own cost of entry let alone a middle class family. It isn't getting any better either.

Some get lucky for a time and make it to a major but most will face several lay offs, furloughs and shutdowns before they make it to the promised land (if ever). The better jobs are slipping away while regionals and LCCs are taking over.

It is a fact that pilots receive much of their compensation as fun career accomplishment and personal satisfaction. Planes are easier to fly and the pilot group allows themselves to be a tool of management because they know that others wait in the wings to do it for less.

In effort of avoiding real work pilots end up working the hardest of all for the least return.

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